The S.P. Hamblen Family

Pioneered at this site, in dugout to the west. S.P. Hamblen (1846-1930) and wife Virginia (1861-1950) settled in Lakeview area (9 mi. S of Claude) in 1889. Hamblen helped establish Lakeview School, 1890. He engaged in farming and stockraising, and ...

First Girl Scout Headquarters in America

The house adjacent to this building was the home of Juliette Gordon Low at the time she founded Girl Scouting in the United States, March 12, 1912. Formerly the carriage-house and stable of the Low mansion, this building became that ...

John Rutherford's Farm

Interrupted by War

John H. Rutherford was born about 1820. He acquired approximately 275 acres here between 1843 and 1848 from the heirs of John Carter. About May 24, 1849, Rutherford married Camilla C. Baker. At first, the couple lived with ...

Birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low

(Top):

Birthplace of

Juliette Gordon Low

Founder of Girl Scouts

In The United States

Owned and Operated

By The

Girl Scouts Of The U.S.A.

(Bottom):

The Juliette Gordon Low

birthplace

Has Been Designated A

National

Histiric Landmark

This Site Possesses National Significance

In Commemorating The History Of The

United ...

"River Fort"

This sculpture was designed by

local councillor and craftsman

Tony O'Callaghan

The “Standing Stone” illustrates

the River Feale

which flows around our town.

The “Ring” depicts an earthen fort

situated in the vicinity of the town

from which the town got its name

Lios Tuathail (Listowel).

Marker is at the ...

"The Spirit of the American Doughboy "

E. M. Viquesney

(Right panel)

World War I was largly fought in trenches six feet deep along the Western Front which extended nearly four hundred miles, from Northern France to the French-Swiss border. Enemy trenches were close by and seperated from allied ...

Rutherford's Farm

In the Path of Battle

In addition to the action of July 20, 1864, known as the Battle of Rutherford’s Farm, two other significant events occurred on or near John Rutherford’s property here.

The first took place on June 14-15, 1863, during ...

The Swamp Fox

During the American Revolution, after the fall of Charleston in 1780, Francis Marion burst forth to lead the Williamsburg militia. He was the senior Regimental Continental Officer not captured or paroled. He recruited patriots, ambushed the British and Loyalists as ...

Birthplace of Juliette Low

(1860-1927)

In the house that stands opposite this marker, Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, was born, October 31, 1860. It was her girlhood home until her marriage there in 1886 to William ...

Gilmore Farm

George Gilmore was born into slavery at Montpelier about 1810. Like millions of African Americans throughout the South, Gilmore made the transition to freedom after the Civil War. Many emancipated slaves worked on the same plantation where they once labored. ...