First Rural Free Delivery Route

For many years the National Grange and other organizations interested in the welfare of citizens residing in rural areas advocated the establishment of rural free delivery of mail. In October 1896, the Post Office Department introduced experimental rural delivery in ...

Dr. Chapmon Powell’s “Medicine House” and W.J. Houston Plantatio

About 1826, Dr. Chapmon Powell erected a log cabin beside the Shallowford Trail near this site. His Indian patients called it the “Medicine House.” His cabin had been relocated onto this site by 1863 when Powell’s son-in-law, Washington Jackson Houston ...

General Benning

Opposite this marker stood the home of Henry Lewis Benning (1814-1875), the Confederate Brigadier General for whom Fort Benning was named. He was married in 1839 to Mary Howard Jones, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Seaborn Jones.

General Benning was ...

Kansas History

The first Spanish explorers arrived in Kansas in 1541, followed by Lewis and Clark in 1804. Westward migration brought the first white settlers - government agents in 1808 and missionaries in 1825. Oil and gas were discovered in 1851. In ...

Rankin Building

Built in 1905 by Mrs. James Rankin

after fire destroyed two city blocks

Palm Garden Grill

W.C. Reed - Confectioner & Stationer

E. Pasch - Haberdasher

A.B. Wilson - Jeweler & Optician

Historic Marker No. V

Martinez Historical Society

July 4, 1990

Marker is on Main Street near Ferry ...

Gravesite

Martin Van Buren

1782 – 1862

Governor of New York

Eighth President of

the United States

Marker is on Albany Avenue (County Route 21), on the right when traveling west.

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Thomas Chiles Perrin House

[Front]:

The Greek Revival residence of Thomas Chiles Perrin (1805-1878), prominent Abbeville District lawyer, planter, businessman, and politician, stood here from 1858 until it burned in 1877. When completed the house was described as "one of the finest and most commodious ...

Martinez-Benicia Ferry

"Gateway to the Gold Fields"

Founded by Dr. Robert Semple in 1847, the Martinez-Benicia ferry was the first established and longest operating ferry service in the S.F. Bay Area. In 1850 Oliver Coffin took over the operation and with his brothers ...

James Danforth Quayle

On August 19,1988, this beautiful court house square was host to 12,500 residents and visitors gathered to witness the first rally of the successful presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush and Huntington's favorite son and 44th Vice President of ...

Birthsite

Martin Van Buren, eighth

President of the United

States, was born at this

site December 5, 1782.

Marker is at the intersection of Hudson Street (County Route 21) and Jarvis Lane, on the right when traveling east on Hudson Street.

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