Site of Donnell & Parsons Building

The firm of Donnell & Parsons built Columbia’s first brick building at this corner in April of 1853, a general store which carried a wide range of merchandise and provisions. The building survived a big fire in July, 1854 but ...

Birthplace of Wilbur Wright

April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912

Co-inventor of the airplane

With his brother, Orville,

he began studying flight, 1896;

built first model airplane, 1899;

began gliding, 1900; and achieved

first successful powered flight

at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,

December 17, 1903

Marker is on North County Road ...

Becky Thatcher's Home

This was the home of Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer’s first sweetheart in Mark Twain’s book Tom Sawyer. Tom thought Becky to be the essence of all that is charming in womanhood.

Marker is on Hill Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Thomas Hart Benton

Kansas City’s most famous artist-in-residence was Thomas Hart Benton, known for his graceful and detailed murals celebrating (and sometimes criticizing) American life. Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri, in 1889. He was the son of a lawyer-turned-United States representative, and ...

Formerly The Texas School Book Depository Building

This site was originally owned by John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. During the 1880s French native Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop here. In 1894 the land was purchased by Phil L. Mitchell, President and Director of Rock ...

Bristol Persian Gulf War Monument

August 7, 1994

This plaque is in recognition

of all the men and women

from Bristol and Forestville

who served their country

with pride during the

Persian Gulf War, Operation

Desert Storm.

Marker is on Memorial Boulevard 0.2 miles east of East Street, on the right when traveling ...

Hollenberg Ranch Pony Express Station

This building, constructed in 1857 by G.H. Hollenberg on his ranch here on the Oregon Trail, was a station on the Pony Express route in 1860-1861. It is believed to be the only such station which has remained unaltered on ...

Dubois Tavern

Here stood the Dubois Tavern. Jesse K. Dubois, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, was an official in the United States Land Office in Palestine from 1849-1853 and later became the Auditor of Public Accounts for Illinois. His son, Fred ...

Bush River Church

Constituted by Daniel Marshall and Philip Mulkey in June, 1771, Bush River Church is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the upcountry. The original meeting house stood in the old graveyard, on a tract of two acres willed to ...

Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled

Before the 19th-century social reform movement, developmentally disabled people were relegated to almshouses and county poor farms where the “indigent, insane, epileptic and “idiotic” were housed together without regard to individual condition. Reformists advocated more humane treatment of the socially-dependent ...