History of the Banks House

The Banks House

This upper middle-class dwelling is one of the earliest surviving structures in Dinwiddie County. Unfortunately, the name of original builder has been lost to time. The architectural evidence suggests that the house evolved in four phases between 1750 ...

Seymour School Bell

This bell called

Seymour children

to school for

almost a century

September 1886

to

June 1976

Marker is on First Street near DeForest Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Holland Harbor Lighthouse / Holland Harbor

(side 1)

Holland Harbor Lighthouse

The first lighthouse built at this location was a small, square wooden structure erected in 1872. In 1880 the lighthouse service installed a new light atop a metal pole in a protective cage. The oil lantern was ...

The Lower Depot Neighborhood / The Frederick Brick Works

(North Facing Side): The Lower Depot Neighborhood

The railroad transformed 19th century America, facilitating long-distance travel and the efficient transfer of raw materials to factories and agricultural and manufactured goods to markets. For Frederick this transformation began in 1831 when the ...

Big Sable Point Lighthouse

(side 1)

Called Grande Pointe au Sable by French explorers and traders, Big Sable Point was an important landmark for mariners traveling a treacherous stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline between Big Sable Point and present-day Ludington. In 1855 twelve ships wrecked ...

Willamette National Cemetery Carillon Bells

[Main/Bottom Marker]:

These Carillon Bells

in honor and loving memory of

all Veterans

were donated by the Oregon State

Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc.

[Top Marker]:

June          [The Oregon Federation of Garden Clubs Logo]      ...

Berkeley County

This county was designated a court and land conveyance district in 1682, and an election district in 1683. It was named for two brothers, Lord John and Sir William Berkeley, both Lord Proprietors of Carolina. Over the years, functions of ...

Home of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney

Home of

Chief Justice

Roger Brooke Taney

and his wife

Anne Key

--

Erected by Frederick Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1938

Marker is on South Bentz Street (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling south.

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General Federation of Women’s Clubs

The General Federation of Women’s Clubs is an international women’s organization dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of other through volunteer service. Founded in 1890, it is one of the world’s largest and oldest nonpartisan, nondenominational women’s volunteer ...

Herbert O. Kubly

1915-1996

Herbert Kubly, the grandson of Swiss immigrants, was born on the Kubly Family Farm in New Glarus. A noted author and playwright, Kubly's first book, American in Italy, won the National Book Award in 1956. Kubly also authored ten other ...