Historic Plains Hotel

The National Register of Historic Places

Wyoming Place No. 343

Downtown Historic District

Marker is on Central Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Indian Trail

Through this pass to Trout

Brook ran an Indian Trail,

used by Robert Rogers after

Battle on Snowshoes, 1758,

on retreat to Ft. Wm. Henry

Ticonderoga Historical Society

Marker is on U.S. 9, on the right when traveling north.

Early Cotton Press

This cotton press, built in 1798 according to tradition, is thought by many to be the oldest in existence. It was first owned and used by John Bethea III, and later by Henry Berry. Powered by oxen or mules rotating ...

The First Home

The first house at what was then known as the "Forks of the Kalamazoo" was erected near this site by Tenney Peabody, a New Yorker. To this cabin with its thatched roof of grass from the banks of the nearby ...

The Battle of Second River

In commemoration

of

The Battle of Second River

September 1777,

Dedicated by

The State Camp of New Jersey

Patriotic Order

Sons of America

September 1932

Marker is at the intersection of Mill Street and Park Drive, on the right when traveling west on Mill Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Anthony J. Drexel

(1826 - 1893)

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Drexel created the world's first trans-Atlantic banking network from an office first located here. It financed many U.S. railroads and businesses of the industrial era. Founder of Drexel University.

Marker is on 3rd Street, ...

Faribault House

In front of you stands the Faribault House, built by long-time fur trader Jean-Baptiste in 1839. Faribault was originally from the Montreal area, and had been associated with the British and American fur traders since the late 1790s. He built ...

Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church

Trustees of the Methodist Church purchased this lot in 1848 as a worship site for Black slaves. Meetings were held outdoors until a building was erected in 1863. At the end of the Civil War (1865), ownership of the property ...

Ebenezer Church

According to local tradition, three Methodist meeting houses of the area united c. 1835 to form Ebenezer. An early church building burned in 1855 and was replaced in 1856 by this present building which is listed in the National Register ...

Carolyn Cortner Smith

Female Architect Pioneer / Designed Delano Park Structures

(Front):

Born in 1894 in Normandy, Tennessee, Carolyn Cortner was raised in the Courtland area of Lawrence County, Alabama. She attended Ward-Belmont College in Tennessee. She married Wilburn Smith in 1912. She did not ...