Albany Pump Station

The original Quackenbush pumping sta.

engines pumped water from

Hudson River to reservoirs until

Dec. 1932. In Charge of Construction:

I.C. Chesbrough. Engineer; J.H. Mars,

Engineer For Pump Engine Constr.

1874

Designated as an Albany Historic Site

by

Common Council Jan. 15, 1981

Marker is on Montgomery Street ...

Martha Brookes Hutcheson

Women's Heritage Trail

Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1871-1959) was one of America's first women landscape architects. After studying for three years in the Landscape Architecture program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she began her practice in 1902. Mrs. Hutcheson designed the gardens ...

Beekay Theatre

Dedicated on the day, December 6, 2008

Originally opened in 1936, the Beekay Theatre survived the historic earthquake of 1952 and endured a number of façade changes before burning in the 1990’s. The reconstruction preserves the original façade behind, which lies ...

This Liberty Pole

Dedicated Thanksgiving day, 1906

Stands on the site

of the original Liberty Pole

erected July 3, 1793.

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Military Park, first known as

“The Training Place,”

was set apart as

the town common in 1669.

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During the Civil War thousands of

men enlisted at the recruiting

tents set up in this ...

The Old Bell

Cast in Cincinnati about 1840, this bell was brought to Lima by way of the Miami Erie Canal and horse drawn wagon, and placed in Allen County's 1842 Courthouse. It rang the hour, announced births and deaths, called citizens to ...

General Roscoe Robinson Jr.

First African-American Four Star General

Born: 11 October 1928

St. Louis, Missouri

Commissioned: 01 Jun 1951

United States Military Academy

Retired: 30 November 1985

Died: 22 July 1993

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"His legacy, and your charge...

Instill in our youth the basic

values of hard work, self-discipline,

determination, duty, honor and

Service to God ...

1941-2007 Red Bank Veterans Monument

Four sided monument ingraved with names of veterans serving from 1941 through 2007.

Marker can be reached from Ridge Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gardens at Bamboo Brook

Martha Brookes Hutcheson, renowned as one of America's first professional female landscape architects, lived at Merchiston Farm. Now called Bamboo Brook, from 1911 to 1959.

These gardens are an example of an early 20th-century landscape designed by Hutcheson in the mode ...

The Interurban Era

In 1910, the Ohio Electric Railway Company opened this terminal, formerly the Interurban Building, which served interurban passengers until 1937. Along with offices, it contained space for express and baggage handling, ticket windows, a newsstand, a lunch counter, and waiting ...

Site of Bank of Tehachapi

The first bank in Tehachapi was incorporated on October 11, 1892, in a dry goods store on "G" Street (now Tehachapi Boulevard). The founder and first President of the Bank of Tehachapi ws Isadore Asher, who operated the bank in ...