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Fullen Market Building

Henry S. Patton, Builder

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1985

Built by a real-estate developer during the East Bay building boom that followed the 1906 earthquake, this corner store anchored the southwestern boundary of the neighborhood once known as Regents Park. For ...

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War of 1812 Soldiers Buried in Bond County

In memory of the

who are buried in

Bond County

Amos Balch • Ansel Birge

Welshier Buchanan • William Burgess

Allen Comer • John Etzler

Daniel Ferguson • John Floyd

Boling Grigg • Bonham Harlan

T. S. Hubbard • Joseph Hunter

Francis Jett • Nicholas Koonce

Joseph McAdams • ...

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Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Bond County

In memory fo the soldiers of

the War of the American Revolution

who are buried in Bond County, Illinois

John Diamond • Joseph McAdams

James Green • Jacob Neer

Peter Hubbard • Williamson Plant

Charles Johnson • Hezekiah Rowe

James Long • Thomas White

Erected June 14, 1929

Marker ...

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Benjamin Banneker

(1731–1806)

The self-educated Negro mathematician and astronomer was born, lived his entire life and died near here. He assisted in surveying the District of Columbia, 1791, and published the first Maryland Almanac, 1792. Thomas Jefferson recognized his achievements.

Marker can ...

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The Potts Family Burial Ground

Historic Pottstown Walking Tour

From our earliest times, the cemeteries of Pottstown have been for the most part associated with churches. The original Sprogell burying ground was an exception, as was that of the Potts, Rutter and Hobart families (although this ...

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Bowen’s Inn/Higgins Grocery

Circa 1854

This building, thought to be Berkeley’s oldest remaining structure, originally stood on the Contra Costa Road, now San Pablo Avenue. Built by Captain William J. Bowen when the area was sparsely populated, it served as an inn, saloon, grocery ...

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Hebron Milling Company

The Hebron Milling Company building was built in 1880 where the National Trail (Route 40) and the Ohio Canal crossed in the village of Hebron. The building sat on the edge of the “turning basin” in the village, where canal ...

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Site of Bogert’s Mill

Near here on Musquapsink Brook stood the earliest grist mill in Pascack built 1734 by Rev. Johannes Bernardus Van Dierren, a Lutheran Pastor. In 1765 it was purchased by Isaac Bogert and owned by his descendants until destroyed by fire ...

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Hebron

Located at the crossing of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the National Road, Hebron was a favored commercial and agricultural center for Licking County in the nineteenth century. Only four miles north of the city Governor DeWitt Clinton of ...

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On The Bloomington Road / The Clark Neighborhood

On the Bloomington Road

The Fort Clark Road, later known as the Bloomington or State Road, was an important artery for commerce between Danville and Urbana. The road was first approved in 1826 by the Illinois Assembly. It was the first ...

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