William J. Murphy

Founder of Glendale

Born August 23, 1839 – New Harford, New York

Died April 17, 1923 – Phoenix, Arizona

Buried Greenwood Cemetery

W. J. Murphy

Murphy came to Arizona from Illinois in 1880, to build a section of the Atlantic and Pacific (Santa Fe) Railroad. ...

U.S. Experimental Model Basin

Site of U.S. Experimental Model Basin 1898-1955

Founded by Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor who was the Director until 1914.

Here the Navy laid the foundations for research in ship and aircraft design with the establishment of a 470 foot ...

First Commercially Successful Electric Street Railway

On August 16, 1886 the Appleton Electric Street Railway Company began operation of the world’s first commercially successful electric street railway. The cars were driven by Van Depoele direct current motors which received power from a hydroelectric generator through two ...

Fairfax

Spies, Mosby and Marr

On June 1. 1861, the first major skirmish of the Civil War occurred on the main street of Fairfax Court House. In the pre-dawn hours 50 men of Co. B, Second U.S. Cavalry, led by Lt. Charles ...

San Francis Ranch

In 1861, Samuel A. Bishop, his wife and party left Fort Tejon for the Owens Valley driving 650 head of stock. On August 22, Bishop reached a creek later named for him and southwest of this spot, established San Francis ...

Petrochemical Plant

In 1920, Union Carbide built first plant for the production of synthetic organic chemicals from natural gas on a site directly across Elk River. From this nucleus grew the nation's giant petrochemical industry, employer of thousands.

Marker is on Elk River ...

Sine Building

5747 West Glendale Avenue

Floyd Homes Sine, builder of the Sine Brothers Hardware Building on 58th Drive, built this distinctive two-story masonry structure in 1926. The Glendale Furniture Company was the ground floor business, and the second floor was used as ...

The Ephraim Bales Place

It would be difficult to find a better place to imagine mountain life than this. Picture yourself growing up here as one of Ephraim and Minerva Bales' nine children. Look around. This was your world. Imagine yourself and 10 others ...

Daniel Boone

The Western Virginia Pioneer 1788-1799

1789 Lt. Col. Of Kanawha Militia

An Organizer of Kanawha County

1791 Delegate to Virginia Assembly

His Cabin was Across the River

from Cave in Cliff Above

He hunted Deer and Made Salt

From a ...

Power for the Diggins

With the discovery of gold and silver in Nevada at Goldfield and Tonopah, the need for electric power for mining operations was fulfilled in September, 1905, by construction of a hydro-electric plant on Bishop Creek, which supplied 1,300 kilowatts of ...