Olive Tilford Dargan

1869-1968

Writer of fiction and

poetry. "Fielding Burke,"

her pen name. Author of

Call Home the Heart and

Highland Annals. Home,

1925-68, was 1/4 mile N.

Marker is on Haywood Road (Business U.S. 19/23) near Balsam Avenue, on the right when ...

Site of the Jerome C. and Mary Chiles Davis Homestead

Two olive and two fig trees survive from the Davis’ prize-winning farm of the 1850’s. Nearby also stand some of the original shingled buildings of the University State Farm, located here in 1906. From this nucleus, the University Farm has ...

Open For Business

Make No Little Plans

Across the street the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building anchors the Federal Triangle, just as the department - with its mission of promoting trade, supporting economic development, and strengthening the competitiveness of American companies - ...

The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus

This painting by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), entitled "The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus" was a companion piece to one of Lindsay's poems. Lindsay recited the poem in 1915 for President Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet to commemorate the opening ...

Stuart and Lincoln Law Office

Before he moved to Springfield Abraham Lincoln came to the law office of John Todd Stuart to barrow law books.

Henry E. Dummer---Stuart;s partner at the time---recalled that the "uncouth looking" Lincoln said little and seemed timid. Yet when he did ...

Florville's Barber Shop

William Florville was Lincoln's barber for twenty-four years.

Florville, or de Fleurville ("Billy the Barber" to his white customers), was born in Haiti of French ancestry. He came to America at age fifteen and was a barber's apprentice in Baltimore.He moved ...

70 Bedford Street

Landmark New York

About 1807 this house was built by John P. Broome, sailmaker and “crier of the courts of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol delivery and of the general session of the peace.” Although altered over the years, the ...

The Site of Camp S-60

Barnum Pond - Town of Brighton

The Site of Camp S-60

Barnum Pond - Town of Brighton

1933-1942

U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps

Company 220

Paul Smiths, N.Y.

Honored for these accomp[lishments:

Fought fires, helped build Meacham Lake and Fish Creek ...

Forest Fire

1885 - 1935

During October 1908 DeBar Mt. was burned over by a forest fire that extended to 6,000 acres. Prevent forest fires.

Marker is on New York Route 30 0.6 miles north of McCollums Rd., on the left when ...

Franklin Co. Fair

Held here since 1852 and described by L.I. Wilder in Farmer Boy. Marshalling site for two Irish Fenian invasions of Canada.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main St. and Raymond St. on East Main St..

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