Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office

Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), a nationally prominent and influential abolitionist and social reformer who played a critical role in the operations of the Underground Railroad, lived on this estate and conducted business out of this land office. A major turning ...

National Historic Landmark - Holland Land Office

National Historic Landmark - Holland Land Office

The Holland Land Company, created by Dutch investors in 1796, helped develop western New York and northern Pennsylvania in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

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National Historic Landmark - James Hall Office

National Historic Landmark - James Hall Office

In this office, James Hall conducted the geological research which made him one of the country's best-known 19th-century geologists.

The expertise he showed in his 1830s survey of New York state led to other ...

National Historic Landmark - Phelps Dodge General Office Bldg.

From 1896 to 1961, this building served as the headquarters of this mining company and is the only important early Phelps Dodge office existing in the U.S. This structure symbolizes the company's pioneer role in western copper mining, as well ...

National Historic Landmark-Joshua R. Giddings Law Office

National Historic Landmark-Joshua R. Giddings Law Office

For most of his professional life, this small two-room frame structure was the law office of Joshua Reed Giddings (1785-1864), abolitionist and Congressman (1838-1859).

While in Congress, his unwavering objective was the elimination of ...

National Historic Landmark - Franklin & Armfield Office

Between 1828 and 1836, Isaac Franklin, in partnership with John Armfield, created the largest-scale slave trading operation in the antebellum South. They established their headquarters in Alexandria (then a part of the District of Columbia), adjacent to an area with ...

Chas. Hoya Land Office

Built in 1897, by Charles Hoya (1848-1926), son of Prussian immigrant Joseph T. Van Der Hoya, and long-time Nacgodoches County surveyor. Designed by Houston architect Frank E. Rue in Victorian style with the Gothic revival details, this was the first ...

This Old Federal Land Office

[Left Historical Marker]:

This Land Office was established by Congress

on May 10, 1800.

President John Adams appointed David Hoge

as Land and Title Registrar, which position

he held for forty years.

In 1801 Mr. Hoge bought the lot on North Third

Street from Bezaleel Wells, founder ...

Federal Land Office

Federal Land Office. This log building was constructed in 1801 by David Hoge on the west side of Third Street. It served as his home and was the first Federal land office in that part of the Northwest Territory known ...

United States Land Office

A United States Land Office was located at this site in 1820 and operated until 1855. Settlers from as far as Chicago came here to file on homesteads.

Young Abraham Lincoln passing through Palestine in 1830 with his family in ...