Rock House Community

A pioneer agricultural community of Williamson County, this site was first settled in the late 1840s by Uriah H. Anderson, a native of Tennessee who received a land grant here from the state of Texas. By 1857 a rural school ...

Rock House Creek Lodge

A Black Forest Lodge

To the “mountaineers”, or people who lived around the Pisgah Forest, these lands were theirs to log, pasture, hunt and moonshine as they had for years. In an effort to convince them otherwise, Schenck installed rangers in ...

The Rock House

On December 7, 1756, the Council of the Colony recorded a petition of Jacob Hoffman for 200 acres of bounty land. He was granted this acreage on Palmetto Branch in 1758. The building on this tract, which has long been ...

Rockland County Court House

Rockland County

Court House

Our forebears commitment to the rule of law was manifested in the first court house built in Tappan in 1691. In 1774 a small frame court house was constructed on this more convenient site, replaced in 1827 by ...

C. B. Holt Rock House

African American Charles B. Holt owned a carpentry

business in Charlottesville’s Vinegar Hill neighborhood. The son of former slaves, Holt built this

Arts and Crafts-style house in 1925-1926, during

the era of segregation when blacks were more

than a quarter of the city’s population ...

Little Rock Schoolhouse

Fillmore was settled in 1851. Before the close of the first year the Pioneers had erected a log school room inside the fort. It had split logs for seats, a dirt roof and floor. In 1854 an adobe church was ...