Charles B. & Geogiana (McGraw) Curtiss House

c. 1892

Charles came to Bay City in 1864 from Ithaca, NY, to work for sawmill owners Henry Sage and John McGraw, eventually buying the Bay City Dredging Co. His home's architecture is Shavian Manorial, a Queen Anne/Tudor Revival style ...

Oliver Mining Co. Headquarters / Oliver Shop Laboratory

Oliver Mining Co. Headquarters

This building was the heart of the Oliver operation, the largest iron ore mining operation in United States history. The Superintendent of Mines and his staff made the day-to-day mining decisions here, and they were supported ...

Dousman-Dunkel Behling Inn

This building, once a stagecoach inn on the Watertown Plank Road, was built in the 1840’s. The probable builder was Michael Dousman (1771-1854), a fur trader and entrepreneur from Mackinac, Michigan.

It was operated as an inn from 1857-1872 by ...

City of Brookfield

First Settler was George Putney in November 1836.

First log schoolhouse was built in 1839 near the present intersection of North Avenue and Brookfield Road.

First organized church was the present St. Dominic’s 1843 the first Catholic Church in the county. ...

Osterburg Mill

William Oster built this water-powered grist mill in the late 1800's to serve the residents of Osterburg, the village he founded in Three Springs Valley, between the Allegheny and Cove Mountains of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

A large wooden water wheel powered ...

Bicentennial of US Constitution

This plant a Living Legacy Project

honoring the Bicentennial of

the United States Constitution

was sponsored by

Three Village Festival Committee

and dedicated on

September 17, 1988.

Marker can be reached from Cemetery Lane, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Caroline Quiner "Ma" Ingalls Birthplace

Caroline Quiner, mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder author of the “Little House” series of books, was born in a cabin here, December 12, 1839. Caroline was the earliest known settler born in the Town of Brookfield. Her parents, Henry N. ...

Norfolk and Southern Bridge

The Kanawha Canal Draw Bridge was built in 1930 by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company to carry the Norfolk and Western Railroad's West Point line over the James River and Kanawha Canal. This type of bridge is known as ...

John B. Sargeant, Sr.

May 29, 1915 - March 6, 1989

John B. Sargeant is remembered as a "gentle" man who generously gave of his time so that future generations could enjoy the lands preserved here. A Polk County dairyman, he served twenty-seven years on ...

Aitken Brothers Birth Place

Birthplace site of Aitken Brothers Hollywood and New York motion picture pioneers (1905-1920).

Grandsons of Waukesha County Scottish Pioneer John Aitken, Harry E. (1878-1956) and Roy E. (1882-1976) produced the greatest of all silent pictures, “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) ...