The Alabama Theatre

Built 1927

Built by the Publix Theater division of Paramount Studios. This movie palace opened on December 26th, 1927. The theatre, in Spanish / Moorish design by Graven and Mayger of Chicago, seated 2500 in a five story, three-tiered auditorium. Paramount's ...

Gardens and Crops

Tobacco, sassafras – the Jamestown gardener was distracted by quick-money crops for export to Europe. Tobacco was even grown in the streets. In 1624 the General Assembly tried to aid the struggling silk and wine industries by ordering each plot ...

Museum and Fire House

Library

Circa 1941

The museum building started as a library and was one of only two National Youth Administration (NYA) projects in Nevada. Volunteers finished the building when NYA funds were diverted to the war effort. Clark County operated a branch library ...

Washington Square

Washington Square, originally called the Mall and later the Parade, is ringed by buildings constructed over two centuries. The Square reflects Newport’s transformation from a rudimentary outpost to one of the five major trading posts in colonial North America. Originally ...

Oyster Shells to Mortar

Brick, lime, and pottery kilns operated throughout Jamestown. A small paved pit here, filled with oyster shells and moistened lime, marked a kiln where mortar or plaster was made. Different pits produced varying qualities of mortar and plaster. These different ...

O.C. Bruton Store

Later Peidmont Grocery & Market

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Deptartment of the Interior

Marker is on North Main Street north of East Allenton Street (North Carolina Route 731), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Dairy Barn

Circa 1941

This site was the location of the first commercial dairy in Mesquite, which began operating circa 1941. The barn was used by over twenty families in the community. According to a schedule, they would drive their cows to the ...

Meriden Soldiers Memorial

To The Memory Of

Our Fellow Citizens

Who Died

In Defense of the Government. 1861 – 65

Erected 1873

[ battle names on the column ]

Antietam • Gettysburg • Vicksburg • Fort Fisher • Appomattox • Atlanta • New Berne • Roanoke Island

[ west ...

McAulay Bros. Store

In 1898 George Thomas McAulay Sr. and his brother William Aulay McAulay began a general mercantile business that would last until their deaths in 1943

Their original wooden store building was replaced by this brick building structure in 1909.

Marker is on ...

Welcome to Washington Square

Founder William Penn had a plan for Philadelphia. He wanted a prosperous, bustling city with straight, orderly streets. He also set aside five squares, establishing parks for the public. Both ideas influenced the design of many later American towns and ...