The James P. White House

Designed by Architect Calvin Ryder and built in 1840, the James Patterson White House is considered the finest example of domestic Greek Revival architecture in Maine. Born in 1800 in a log house not far from this site, James White ...

The Circus Comes to Town

Circuses and Caravans of wild animals appeared in Belfast as early as 1816. In 1885, Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth," featuring 16 elephants including Jumbo, pitched its tent on Congress Street where over 8,000 people enjoyed the spectacle, despite ankle-deep ...

The Town Named After a Buggy Incident

Buggies, such as the one before you, were an important part of early America. As the name implies, Doctors' Buggies were used by physicians but they were also a popular choice for many others as well. Buggies were dearly prized ...

Here Stood the Big Elm

Here Stood the Big Elm

For many years the largest

in Massachusetts

Under its spreading branches

historic meetings were held

This tablet erected on the Centennial

of the planting of the Sheffield Elms

June 12, 1946

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street (U.S. 7) and ...

The Temple and Honeymoon Trails

The Temple Trail

The temple trail is the route used from 1871 to 1877 to haul timber from Mt. Trumbull, Arizona, to St. George, Utah, for the building of the St. George LDS Temple. Pioneers traveled 80 miles along the ...

The Velodrome Story

24 Acres and a Vision

The Valley Preferred Cycling Center, the most celebrated velodrome in modern American cycling history, traces its roots to the dream of one inspired visionary and its legendary success to the dreams of countless champions who began ...

Minnetonka -- Queen of the Inland Lakes

In May, 1822, a Fort Snelling drummer boy named Joseph R. Brown and his friend, William Snelling, son of the fort's commander, canoed up what is now called Minnehaha Creek to "discover" a lake long sacred to the Indian people ...

The Jones Adobe Home

Dedicated to memory of

Clarence Amos Jones & Madaline Empey Jones.

Donated by their children Boyd Grant Jones and Sylvia Jones Chamberlain,

Wayne Hyrum Jones

to the Washington County Historical Society.

This one room home, with a partition, was moved from 306 West 300 North ...

Peter M. Gideon and the Wealthy Apple

In 1853, Peter Miller Gideon and his wife, Wealthy, arrived in Minnesota from Ohio and settled on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. Long interested in fruitgrowing, Peter Gideon determined to satisfy the craving of pioneer families for apples and other ...

The Grand Army Hall

Following the end of the American Civil War veterans from both the Union and Confederate forces formed the veterans organization the G.A.R. or the Grand Army of the Republic. On 28 March 1883, the George Ellis Post 171 was established ...