Symbol of Service

Dedicated to all firemen of this community. The bell first tolled to summon volunteer firefighters in the Town of Salem. Since 1912 this bell had hung in the old bell tower that was located at Station No 2, 301 South ...

Bovina

(Elevation: 4070 feet)

Early in the 20th century, this was one of largest cattle shipping points in the United States.

Originated as the Hay Hook Line Camp of the XIT — famed ranch that received over 3,000,000 acres of land in payment ...

Friona Women's Clubs

By 1898, Friona and several other area townsites had been laid out as switches on the Pecos Valley & Northern Texas Railroad. Settlers soon began arriving in Friona, which incorporated in 1906. Twenty Friona women organized a club in September ...

Black Community

In 1898, the Santa Fe Railroad came through here and associated buildings were constructed in what would become the Black Community. Named for land speculator E.B. Black, the community was further settled beginning in 1908, when the Wright Land Company ...

Gragg Lumber Company

(Side 1:)

In 1926, brothers John, Earl, Wayne and Gilbert Gragg came from North Carolina to establish a sawmill six tenths of a mile north of here on the east side of Amsterdam Road. As the Gragg Lumber Co., they ...

Amsterdam, Georgia / Shade Grown Tobacco

(Side 1):

Amsterdam, Georgia

In 1891, A. Cohn & Co. purchased 14,000 acres for tobacco cultivation and named it Amsterdam. At that time, the property was the largest tobacco plantation in the world under one ownership. In 1907, seven of the larger ...

Granby Civil War Monument

(South side)

(Upper)

Col. Richard E. Holcomb June 14, 1863

Surg. W. Horatio Goddard Aug. 18, 1963

8, Regt. Conn. Vols. Inf.

Henry Saunders May 17, 1862

Lafayette Tillotson Sept. 17, 1862

10, Regt. Conn. Vols. Inf.

Cyrus R. Bunnell Dec. 30, 1862

Edwin W. Jones Aug. 29, 1864

Geo. ...

The Girls and Boys of Bemisuwka

Upper Plaque

They, too, wanted only to live by the side of this Park and be a friend to man. Instead, off to war they went, by their sense of duty sent, in response to pleas, of peoples, forced to their ...

The Cabotville Sycamores

The sycamores have survived hurricanes, floods, an industrial revolution and the onslaught of modern urbanization. These handsome trees were growing here in 1848 when the citizens of Cabotville petitioned the legislature for the right to incorporate as a town. The ...

Cabotville Canal

For 150 years this cluster of red brick mill buildings on the Chicopee River served as the community's industrial anchor. The complex was conceived, designed and built by America's first generation of venture capitalists, the legendary Boston Associates.

In 1831 the ...