Abbott Way Station

Circa 1917

On this site was one of the first rest-over businesses in the Virgin Valley. Here an early version of an adobe brick house was used as a small grocery store with a separate wash house that had shower and ...

William Abbott Home/Abbott Hotel

Circa 1901

This is a two-story adobe building with a rock foundation. The walls are three adobes thick and there are six rooms on each floor. Abbott served as Bishop of the local congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Abbottstown Street/Broadway

A Glimpse of Hanover's Past

The chaotic fighting at the Center Square quickly spilled over onto several side streets, alleys, and fields. At the first sign of trouble, Major John Hammond led an organized withdrawal of the 5th New York Cavalry ...

Robert Sengstacke Abbott Boyhood Home

Founder of the Chicago Defender

From 1878 to 1889, Robert Sengstacke Abbott lived in the parsonage of Pilgrim Congregational Church, once located on this site. His stepfather John H. H. Sengstacke, minister of the church, published the Woodville Times. Abbott learned ...

Abbott Cave

The presence of large deposits of limestone and running water make Big Spring Park an ideal location for caves such as Stairstep Cave. However, there is another cave that lives in the memories of the elders of Neosho.

In 1946 J.W. ...

Mary Jane Leavitt Abbott

July 16, 1873 – November 30, 1956.

… from weary travelers to women and their children who would come to visit … she never turned anyone away without feeding them. She would invite you to eat and then say ‘There’s plenty ...

William Elias Abbott

October 16, 1869 – February 19, 1949.

It was under William Abbott’s supervision that Mesquite was founded on a firm foundation. —Howard Pulsipher, Mesquite Pioneer.

At the age of eight, William journeyed from his birthplace in Ogden, Utah, to Bunkervile, Nevada. The ...