Clearlake Lodge #130 I.O.O.F.

In January of 1867 the Clearlake Lodge #30 I.O.O.F. was organized in Lower Lake. The hall was built in 1868. The Lodge originally has 7 members, D.M. Hanson being the first Noble Grand.

Marker is on Main Street west of Adams ...

Forrest's Early Home

In a house which stood here in antebellum days lived Nathan Bedford Forrest. Born in middle Tennessee, 1821, he spent his early life on a Mississippi plantation.

Following marriage in 1845, he came to Memphis, where his business enterprises made ...

Early Commercial Building

Erected to house private bank as well as hardware and lumber business of John A. Nelson and Associates. Bank was closed in 1922; commercial use continues.

Architecturally important for facade of cast iron and pressed tin. Ornamented pilasters and columns ...

Early Odem Area Schools

As population increased in south central San Patricio County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, independent schools were established in a number of communities, serving students in isolated areas before the construction of a good road system allowed ...

Early Finnish Pioneers

1892.

Dedicated to the memory of the early Finnish pioneers who helped to build this community.

The Minnesota Finnish-American Historical Society, Chapter 14, Hibbing, Minnesota.

1957

Marker is on 1st Avenue south of 31st Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Early Church

First Congregational Church of Riga. Church society started 1806. Building erected 1823, copy of Hinsdale, Mass. Church

Marker is at the intersection of Chili-Riga Center Road (New York Route 33A) and Chuchville-Riga Road on Chili-Riga Center Road.

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Early Settlement

Two miles east near the river, Richard Coleman planted a frontier settlement and trading post in 1652. By 1660 a church was built, to which every man was required to come armed for protection against the Indians.

Marker is on Tidewater ...

Early Quakers in Richmond

Near this site a meetinghouse was built in 1797 to 1798 by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Called Quakers, the earliest had arrived in Virginia from England in 1655. The building was the second house of worship in ...

William Earle Berne Beltway

Named in 1980 by the South Carolina State Highways and Public Transportation Commission in recognition of Dr. Berne’s distinguished service during three terms as a member of the Highway Commission representing the Fifth Highway District (Richland and Kershaw Counties) 1960 ...

Early Travel

Situated in a gap of the Blue Ridge Mountains and at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers, Harpers Ferry, from its beginning, functioned as a natural avenue of transportation.

The first mode of travel consisted of a primitive ferry ...