Frenchtown World War 1 Monument

Spirit of the American Doughboy

This tablet is erected as a tribute to the men of Frenchtown who served on the Great World War. 1917-1918

Marker is on Harrison Street, on the right when traveling north.

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From Military to Municipal Airfield

The history of Pearson Field goes back almost to the origins of mechanized flight itself. The landing site of Lincoln Beachey’s groundbreaking flight across the Columbia River from Portland to Vancouver, during the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition, marked the ...

The 321st Observation Squadron (1923-1941)

Although the U.S. Army allowed civilian aircraft to land at Vancouver Barracks beginning in 1905, military aircraft began operating here in 1921, when the U.S. Army Air Service established a landing field for an aviation forest patrol. The patrol was ...

Roebuck Springs Historic District

Roebuck Springs was the first large residential suburb in Birmingham where planning and development were tied to the automobile, and the first community in the city associated with a golf course development. The 1910 land plan was designed to complement ...

Frenchtown Railroad

The Belvidere-Delaware Railroad c.1853.

Later leased to the Penn R. R. System, the line allowed transit of Lehigh & Hudson R. R. passenger trains.

Marker is on Bridge Street, on the right when traveling east.

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The First Fort Vancouver

In 1824 the Hudson's Bay Company chose this place as the site for a new fort which they named Vancouver in honor of the British explorer, George Vancouver. Little is knowns of this fort as it was moved early in ...

George Washington School

The George Washington School was built in 1893 at a cost of $1,800. It is believed to have once housed the largest collection of library books of any Manitowoc County rural school. The Village of St. Nazianz purchased the school ...

Josiah Morris

1818-1891

Had his bank on this site 1852-1891. He helped finance Montgomery's business, railroads and industry. Here on Dec. 19, 1870, he bought 4150 acres of land and deeded them to the Elyton Land Co. which later was platted, and on ...

Barrington Hall

Barrington King, co-founder of Roswell with his father, Roswell King, for whom the town is named, selected this spot for his home, which is in the Greek Revival style of architecture. Willis Ball, a carpenter from Connecticut, was the builder. ...

Jesus Martinez House

Jesus Martinez, a farmer from New Mexico, began construction on this adobe house in 1872. Completed in 1880, the U-shaped building had a traditional Sonoran flat dirt roof and central patio enclosed on three sides. By 1890 the house was ...