Building History / Major Frank R Thompson (1903-1977)

Building History

Built in the 1930s by Frank R. Thompson, this building was the main street depot for the Anderson Petroleum Company and Dixie Distributors, Inc., both successful petroleum distributors in Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Greenwood, Abbeville, and McCormick counties. Thompson's companies ...

Woodburn

Part of a tract of 3,000 acres granted to John Hillyard by William Penn, March 7, 1683. His great-grandson, Charles Hillyard, built this mansion and resided here with his wife, Mary, daughter of William Killen, first Chancellor of Delaware. According ...

Albemarle County/Louisa County

ALBEMARLE COUNTY

Albemarle County was formed in 1744 from Goochland County and named for William Anne Keppel, the second Earl of Albemarle, titular governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. A portion of Louisa County was later added to Albemarle County. ...

Richardson and Robbins Complex

The Richardson and Robbins complex began in 1881, twenty-six years after Alden B. Richardson and James W. Robbins started a small cannery at another location in Dover. On this new site Richardson and Robbins prospered as canners of high quality ...

American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions

American Board of Commissioners

For Foreign Missions

Here, on September 5, 1810, in the parsonage of the Reverend Noah Porter, minister of the Congregational Church of Farmington, Connecticut, the American Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions held its first ...

Liberty Bell Reproduction

Dedicated to You, a Free Citizen in a Free Land

Dedicated to you, a free citizen in a free land, this reproduction of the Liberty Bell was presented to the people of Delaware by direction of The Honorable John W. Snyder, ...

The Tonopah Mining Boom

In 1900. Jim Butler stopped at a site known as Tonapah, or Little Water, in the Western Shoshone language. Taking a few rock samples, he discovered a mine that led to one of the most important mineral finds of the ...

Bharatiya Hindu Temple

[Marker Front]:

In 1985, Hindu immigrants from India formed a celestial organization, The Bharatiya Temple Society of Central Ohio, and through its membership adopted the Constitution and Bylaws and named the place of worship Bharatiya Hindu Temple. Later they bought a ...

"American Board"

Here Was Founded the

"American Board"

1810

Oldest U. S. Society

For Foreign Missions

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 10) and Maple Street, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

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Fishburne Park Flagpole

Dedicated

to all the Veterans

of the Valley

Marker is on Brambleton Avenue SW (U.S. 221) near Montgomery Avenue SW, on the right when traveling east.

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