Circa 1883

This site has a long history with the "written word." On April 7, 1883, the first issue of the Orange Ridge Echo was printed here in a wood-frame building. This paper later became the Chronicle, which eventually became the Volusia ...

Slaughter Family Cemetary

First cousin to famed "Texas John Slaughter", Peter Slaughter & his rough trailhands brought the first Texas cattle to the White Mtns. C.1881 & built his P Lazy S Ranch on the Black River. Pete is buried here with 3 ...

Florence High School

Designed by Phoenix architects Royal W. Lescher and John R. Kibbey and completed in 1916, this neo-classical revival style structure has overtones of the Spanish revival style. The school board chose a one story as the children would have already ...

Treasures from the Past

Town of Berlin

Berlin's main street follows the course of the old Philadelphia post road which served as a principal stage route and course of land transportation during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Tradition holds that the name Berlin came from a ...

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station

Side one:

The Ohio General Assembly established the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in 1882. From its inception until 1892, the Station occupied 17 acres on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University before relocating to 470 acres in Wayne County. ...

Colonel Charles Stewart House

Colonel Charles Stewart

was George Washington's

Commissary-General of Issues.

The house was built in 1763.

Marker is on Hamden Road 0.1 miles south of Lower Landsdown Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Ancient Dwelling

The Fort Ancient people who occupied this area between about AD900 and AD1600 lived in larger communities than the Hopewell people did. Their villages of 200 to 500 people were truly agricultural; they cultivated beans, corn, squash, and tobacco. This ...

Shipwrecks

Shoals, bad weather, and lack of navigational aids contributed to hundreds of shipwrecks along Assateague. Many wrecks were schooners and cargo vessels sailing the busy coastal ship lanes in the 1800s.

The total number of wrecks off Assateague is not clear, ...

Mary Surratt's Boarding House

Civil War to Civil Rights

"The nest in which the egg was hatched."President Andrew Johnson, April 1865.

The building at 604 H Street, today Golo’s Chinese Restaurant, is intimately connected with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, just five ...

In Memory of Tom Mix

Jan. 6, 1880 - Oct. 12, 1940

In Memory of

Tom Mix

Whose spirit left his body on this spot.

And whose characterization and portrayals

in life served to better fix memories of

the old west in the minds of living men.

Marker is on Arizona Route ...