Elfego Baca

1865-1945

"I will show the Texans there is at least one Mexican in the county who is not afraid of an American cowboy"

Elfego Baca - 1884

In October 1884, seven drunken cowboys committed horrific acts against two Mexican men in Upper Frisco, ...

"Battle Cross"

podium beside statue

This arrangement of a fallen soldier's boots, rifle and helmet known as a BATTLE CROSS began in World War I. Since then, when a serviceman or woman is lost on the battlefield, comrades erect a Battle Cross to ...

Industry Along the Banks

Riverfrontiers

In the 1880s, the heart of Rochester lay on the flat stretch of land along the Ohio River. The main road, Water Street, was a perfect location for businesses for many reasons. Proximity to the rivers and railroads meant heavy ...

Daniel Bullock- Samuel Baker Sawmill site 1750-1850

Plain St. now crosses what was once sawmill pond.

On a cold New Years day in 1830, 14 new converts to the nearby Oak Swamp Baptist Church were baptized by being immersed in the pond through a hole cut in ...

Texas Panhandle Pioneers: The Simms Brothers

Permanent citizens, forgers of local civilization. Walter Franklin (1869-1963), George Leonard (born 1875) and Dormer D. Simms (born 1884) moved to Texas in 1886 and to this county in the early 1900's. They arrived later than visiting hunters, soldiers and ...

Union Straw Works / Birth of the Straw Hat Industry

Union Straw Works

Members of the Carpenter family became engaged in various straw manufacturing operations. In 1843 they built the Great Bonnet Shop at 18-22 Wall Street and in 1845 the Hamlet House at 12-16 Wall St. Erastus P. Carpenter then ...

Noble Ellis - Sternwheeler that Saved an Army

Ferry Landing

Night of January 10-20, 1862

Confederate General Zollicoffer's pleas for more men and supplies to meet the strong Union force he expected went mostly unheeded. General Albert Sidney Johnston did, however, send a river steamer, the Noble Ellis, up from ...

Centre Burial Ground

In 1783, Nehemiah Carpenter, Samuel Baker and Jeremiah Hartshorn conveyed to the selectmen and their successors in office forever four acres of land on which the meeting house had been built for use as a town common. Mr. Carpenter also ...

Foxborough State Hospital Cemetery

Not all patients of the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates or its successor, the Foxboro State Hospital, had known family contacts or families able to provide for their burial. To insure a proper final resting place, the commonwealth of ...

Entering Baker Street Historic District

The homes on Baker Street represent people and diverse architecture from two significant periods of Foxborough history, the 19th century straw hat era and the 20th century transition to industrial manufacturing.

Marker is at the intersection of Baker Street and Bird ...