First Baptist Church of Pleasanton

On December 16, 1866, seven charter members met together to organize the First Baptist Church of Pleasanton. They met for worship in a variety of places, including the county courthouse in 1867, a schoolhouse south of town in 1870, and ...

First Baptist Church of Lytle

Dr. J.V.E. Covey and 16 charter members organized this church in April 1893 and held their first meeting under a stand of oak trees. A small frame building was later built, becoming their first permanent church building. Early baptisms were ...

Cooper Chapter No. 101, Royal Arch Masons

Chartered March 27, 1871, on petition of Master Masons of Pleasanton Lodge No. 283, A.F. and A.M., and the surrounding area. Met in upper floor of the Isaac Cooper home until 1891; over Cooper Brothers store until Masonic Hall was ...

Amphion and Amphion Cemetery

Amphion traces its beginning to the establishment of Atascosa County's first courthouse which is believed to have been constructed near this site at the county seat of Navatasco in 1857. Amphion, thought to have been named after a figure in ...

Northwestern National Insurance Company

Erected in 1906 and designated in 1970 as a landmark of the City of Milwaukee by the Milwaukee Landmarks Commission in recognition of its architectural and historical significance to the community.

Marker is at the intersection of East Wisconsin Avenue ...

Fleet Marine Force Navy Hospital Corpsmen

In recognition of

those U.S. Navy Hospital

Corpsman [sic] who served

with the Fleet Marine

Force in Peacetime

and in War

Courtesy hmdb.org

Marine Corps Memorial

Semper Fidelis

Dedicated

to all

Marines

Courtesy hmdb.org

Johnson-Frazier Building / Cox Produce Company

1914

Johnson-Frazier Building

Fireproof! Rat-proof! Mouse-proof! This is how the Johnson-Frazier Building's earliest occupant, Wichita Fire Proof Storage Co., billed the concrete and brick Goliath when it opened in 1914.

Other businesses were housed there over the years, such as City Transfer and ...

Coleman Company

1909

1909

W.C. Coleman built a factory at 220 N. St. Francis. It served as the company headquarters for most of the twentieth century.

In 1889, Coleman found the lamp that would change his life. The "Efficient Lamp" had mantles, not wicks, and ...

Simmons Hardware Company / Hockaday Paint Company

1908

E.C. Simmons Keen Kutter Cutlery and Tools

With E.C. Simmons as president, Simmons Hardware Company was developed into one of the most extensive corporations of its kind with divisions in Wichita, Sioux City, Toledo, New York, Minneapolis and St. Louis. The ...