Kern County Land Company Building

In 1894, four years after the formation of the Kern County Land Company, the firm built an office building that demonstrated its "Faith in the Future" of Bakersfield. The structure with outside walls of cream colored pressed brick, trimmed with ...

Frostburg

The Frost Family Legacy

Years before St. Michael’s Church was built,

Meshach Frost and his wife Catherine purchased

this property in 1812. When the Frosts bought the

property, construction of the National Road was

already underway. They soon found they ...

Eusebius Barnard

(1802–1865)

Born a Quaker, Barnard became a member of the Progressive Friends movement and upheld its active affirmation of the ideals of temperance, equality of women, and abolition of slavery. His farm became a station on the Underground Railroad. He ...

Gilbert Cope

1840 - 1928

Gilbert Cope, eminent genealogist and historian, was born in the house on this property. Author of a number of genealogies of Chester County families, he was dedicated to the preservation of Quaker records and of the archives ...

The Millionaires Club

Historic Landmark

Millionaires Club and Oldest Saloon in Virginia City

? Since ?

1862

[Marker Located on Back Wall of Saloon]

Millionaires Club

of the

Washoe

This historic club was formed in the mid-1870’s by the elite gentlemen of the Comstock. It was an exclusive social club which ...

Bergstresser/Dietz Covered Bridge

1887-1991

(Side A)

In March, 1887, the Franklin County Commissioners announced the building of a bridge in Madison Township over Little Walnut Creek at Kramer's Ford. Area citizens had petitioned for a bridge to transport agricultural products to the canal and railroad. ...

Big Darby and Little Darby Creeks

Recognized for their biodiversity and high quality aquatic habitat, Big Darby Creek and Little Darby Creek were designated as state and national scenic rivers. These riparian ecosystems provide modern recreational opportunities while allowing a sense of their appearance centuries ago. ...

The “Big Quarry”

The photograph looks north to the buildings on East Bridge Street, which constituted the northern boundary of Berea’s sandstone quarries around 1895. The photographer stood approximately where you are standing.

“Gradually the water came, first a little pool, then it ...

The John W. Alford Building

21 South First Street

The Park National Bank dedicates this building to

John W. Alford

His leadership, judgement, dedication and integrity have been of inestimable value to this bank and this community for 50 years

Courtesy hmdb.org

Webbers Falls

Settled in 1829, named for Walter Webber, Western Cherokee Chief, who had a trading post here. Home of "Rich Joe" Vann to 1844, owner of "Lucy Walker," quarter mile race horse, for which he named his Mississippi River steamboat. In ...