Whitesbog Village

Historic Whitesbog Village has its origins in 1857 when James A. Fenwick began cultivating cranberry bogs at this location. His son-in-law Joseph Josiah White took over management of the farm upon Fenwick's death in 1882, and not long after the ...

The Whitewater Canal

In 1836 construction began on this fifty-six lock, one hundred one mile canal. Opened from Lawrenceburg to Brookville (1839), it was extended to Laurel and Cincinnati (1843), Connersville (1845), Cambridge City (1846), and Hagerstown (1847).

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Whitehead House, 1791

Patrick Parker, a wealthy merchant, built a Georgian style home here in 1791. Later occupants of the house included Hugh Blair Grigsby and John Boswell Whitehead, sons of Elizabeth McPherson. Elizabeth's first husband was the Reverend Benjamin Grigsby. Their son ...

The White Home

Located across East White Street, the White Home sheltered five generations of a pioneer Rock Hill family. George Pendleton White and Ann Hutchinson White made their home here after their marriage in 1838. Most likely, a small house was built ...

White Home

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About 1839, this former plantation house was built by George Pendleton White (1801-1849) and his wife, Ann Hutchison White (1805-1880). It has since sheltered five generations of a pioneer Rock Hill family. During the War of 1861-1865 needy Confederate soldiers ...

Whitewater Canal

Important waterway of pioneer commerce. Built 1836 - 47 from Lawrenceburg to Hagerstown, with branch to Cincinnati. Used until 1860. Fifteen-mile section restored by state.

Marker is on U.S. 52 east of McGuire Ridge Road, on the right when traveling east. ...

Captain James W. White House

1871

Constructed by E.M. Holt

as a residence for his

daughter, Emily Virginia,

wife of Capt. James W. White

Marker is on South Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Montwhite Building

1907

Italian Renaissance

Housed the Opera House

and

Various Mercantile Enterprises

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and Harden Street on North Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

White Sulphur Springs

Situated on what was once a Mexican Land Grant to Dr. Edward Bale, White Sulphur Springs was discovered in 1848 and a resort was opened in 1852, making this California’s oldest. Wealthy San Franciscans traveled here in the latter half ...

The Residents of White Springs

Florida's native Timucuan Indians lived for hundreds of generations in what is now north Florida and southeast Georgia. Beginning in the 1580s, they were organized into mission villages by Spanish Franciscan priests. While exploitation and epidemics caused native populations to ...