Whitcomb-Baker VFW Post 4633 Veterans Memorial

In Memory Of All Veterans

Marker is on Fort Knox Road (Maine Route 174), on the right when traveling west.

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Standard Oil Company Building

Constructed in 1917 by Henry Jastro, this building is listed on both The National Register of Historic Buildings and the The Register of Historic Places by the Bakersfield City Council. It originally housed the executive offices of Standard Oil Company ...

Weill's Department Store

"Pioneers of the Past - Builders of the Furture"

Alphonse Weill came from France to Havilah in 1870 and moved to Bakersfield in 1872, was employed by merchant Jacob Weil (No Relation), and became his partner in 1873. Subsequently Weill acquired ...

The Phineas Heywood House

Circa 1824

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on Main Street (Maine Route 15) near Elm Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Brock's Department Store

This site was deeded by Col Thomas Baker to Agnes Stine in 1871. Dave Hirshfeld ran the Pioneer Store here in 1899. Succeeded by Otto Belau in the same year. In 1904 the business was sold to Hochheimer and Co. ...

Penobscot River

The Penobscot River is a vital resource. In the 1700's it spawned numerous riverside communities, while the 1800's saw Bangor become the "lumber capital of the world", and Bucksport an international port renowned for shipbuilding. Crafted along the Penobscot were ...

The Town of Bucksport

In 1763 Jonathan Buck settled the area, which was subesequently burned during the Revolutionary War. First incorporated as "Buckstown", the name was changed to "Bucksport" in 1817. In the 1800's Bucksport thrived as an international port. Later industrial activity grew ...

The Spanish Community

Historic Cannery Row

During World War I and the decade that followed, much of the workforce in the developing sardine industry along Cannery Row was made up of Spanish immigrants, who had fled crushing poverty for the promise of a new ...

The Japanese Community

Historic Cannery Row

While the majority of Monterey’s commercial fishermen in the 1930s were Sicilian, about 10 percent of the fleet were Japanese nationals, some of whom has been fishing the bay since 1900. These Issei – first generation Japanese – ...

The Filipino Community

Historic Cannery Row

Filipinos were attracted in large numbers to California after the 1924 Immigration Act excluded Japanese, who had been the major part of the state’s agricultural labor force. By 1930, as many as 35,000 Pinoys – young, single, male ...