Greene County

Formed February 9, 1796 from Washington County. Named for Gen. Nathanael Greene. Waynesburg, the county seat named for Gen. Anthony Wayne, was incorporated in 1816. Site of Waynesburg College, founded 1849. Near Ten Mile is birthplace of Gov. Edward Martin.

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San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin

In 1902 a San Jose Buddhist Church was founded as a recognized branch of the San Francisco Buddhist Church. In 1906 property at 630 North 5th Street was purchased and services conducted by the first resident minister from Japan Reverend ...

Closter Public School

In 1899 the schoolhouse property was bought from the Bloomer family. The following year a two story, square plan, Renaissance Revival style building was completed with 3 classrooms and an assembly room for grades K-8. In 1907, 4 classrooms were ...

George Barrett Cement House

Poor Man's Home, Rich Man's Palace

After his home was destroyed by fire, George Barrett decided to build a home that would survive another disaster. An article Barrett read by O.S. Fowler in New York described a new building material that ...

H.C. Fry Glass Co.

1901-1932

Founded in Rochester by Henry Clay Fry President of the Rochester Tumbler and National Glass Co. Hundreds of skilled workers produced world renowned glass including cut, tableware, ovenware, art, industrial and optical glass of the finest quality.

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Seven Islands Road

The Seven Islands - Alabama Road - was an important emigrant route to the west. Travelers from northeast Georgia and the upper Carolinas followed this trace to the Mississippi Territory, Louisiana, and later Texas.

Originally an important link in the Oakfuskee ...

Brigadier General Edmund Munger

Edmund Munger was born in 1763 in Norfolk, Connecticut, and later moved to Vermont. In 1799, his wife Eunice Kellogg and five children traveled by wagon and flat-bottomed boat to claim land in Washington Township. A blacksmith by trade and ...

Rochester Lodge No. 229

Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania, is the oldest Masonic Lodge in Beaver County. Meeting continuously since it was constituted April 11, 1848, a year before Rochester Borough was incorporated the Masonic Temple was built in 1884.

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Centerville Veterans Memorial

In

honor of those

who served

in war and peace

to protect the

United States

of

America

American Revolution 1776-1783

War of 1812 1812-1814

Mexican War 1846-1848

Civil War 1861-1865

Spanish-American War 1898

World War I 1917-1918

World War II 1941-1945

Korea 1950-1955

Vietnam 1961-1975

Persian Gulf War 1991

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The Burning of San Jose Chinatown

May 4, 1887

In Memory of

The Burning of San Jose Chinatown

May 4, 1887

On this site on May 4, 1887 a mysterious fire, deliberately set, destroyed San Jose's Chinatown. This was the largest Chinatown South of San Francisco. A community of bachelors ...