Rochester's Early Banks

Diagonally across Franklin Street stands a fine example of the work of esteemed Rochester architect J. Foster Warner. This traditional banking house was built in 20th century Byzantine Style in 1928 for the Rochester Savings Bank. It features mosaics and ...

Abraham Lincoln's Biography

Greencastle Courthouse Square

6 West Washington Street

William Herndon

Jesse Weik

Abraham Lincoln

and

Greencastle

During the long, hot summer of 1887, William H. Herndon of Springfield, Illinois, the former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, came to Greencastle to visit his ...

The Hurricane of September 21st 1938

Top Marker

The Hurricane of September 21st 1938 driven by a wind velocity of 95 MPH max caused tidal waters to reach a new level as indicated below

13 feet 8½ inches

above mean high water

one foot eleven and one fourth inches higher ...

Badger State Planing Mill At Lake Hallie

Badger State Lumber Company

This site is near the location of the first sawmill called the "Blue Mills" built just north of Lake Hallie, built over a two year period 1842-1843 by Steven McCann and the brothers Simon and George Randall. ...

Morrison Library

In memory of

Nathan Jackson Morrison, LL.D.

Founder and President of

Fairmount College

1895 - 1907

Federal Emergency

Administration of Public Works

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President of the United States

Harold L. Ickes

Administrator of Public Works

University Library

1939

The Municipal University of Wichita

Board of Regents

S. Carnot Brennan • Otto R. Souders

Mrs. ...

Bicentennial of the Birth of George Washington

To Inspire Patriotism

and Loyalty

and to commemorate the

Bicentennial of the Birth

of George Washington

[Erected] February 1932

Marker is on Alumni Drive, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pizza Hut Number One

First Opened at Bluff and Kellogg Streets

Two former WSU students, Dan and Frank Carney, borrowed $600 to open this first Pizza Hut. Their corporation grew to become the world's largest pizza chain and was sold to PepsiCo in 1977 for ...

Charlottenburg Palace

Schloß Charlottenburg

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The baroque Lietzenburg palace completed in 1699 was built by Arnold Nehring as a summer residence for Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Elector Friedrich III. After her death in 1705, the palace was renamed Charlottenburg ...

The Bowerman Barn

This barn was built by the Bowerman family in 1878 as part of their ranch operation. Much of the barn was handcrafted and it serves as a fine example of the skills of that time.

The Bowerman’s are an early pioneer ...

The Dawson-Bailey House

This house is probably the oldest structure in Arlington County, but its exact age is unknown. This land was first patented in 1696; a house at this site is shown on a survey of 1785. Thomas Dawson enlarged the present ...