Bensen House

Circa 1916

Atley Bensen Paid $1,200 for the precut yellow pine lumber which arrived by riverboat from Jacksonville in 1916, to build this house for his wife Clara Christensen. The Bensen brothers married the Christensen sisters, both pioneer families of ...

Palmetto Building

Spartanburg Historic District

National Register

South Carolina

Department of Archives

and History

Palmetto Building

of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and North Church Street (U.S. 221), on the right when traveling east on East Main Street.

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Little Beaver Creek

Little Beaver Creek

Established by the People of Ohio

Has been designated

A State Wild and Scenic River

In the

National Wild and Scenic Rivers System

Under the provisions of the

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968

Thomas S. Kleppe

Secretary

U.S. Department of the Interior

October 1975

Marker is on ...

Beaver Creek

The history of the earth is written in the rocks. In Ohio, nearly 500 million years of time are recorded in our bedrocks, reflecting the coming of inland seas, the upheaval of mountain ranges and the birth and death of ...

John Steinbeck

Historic Cannery Row

The real neighborhood of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row.

Real people and places in the neighborhood of Monterey’s old Ocean View Avenue inspired fictional characters and establishments in the mind of John Steinbeck. Published in 1945, his novel Cannery Row ...

Building Cannery Row

Historic Cannery Row

Roofing contractor Charles L. Frost (top) supervises his crew hot mopping a Monterey cannery roof. Concentrated along the shoreline, the fish processing plants were subject to storm damage. In addition, changes were required to accommodate new technologies to ...

Georgetown Blues

A Military Company Was Organized

At Georgetown In August 1859, Called

The Georgetown Blues

This Is In Honor Of Them, And

Dedicated To All United States

Veterans Who Have So Honorably

Answered Their Nation’s Call To Duty

America Thanks You!

Marker is on Wentworth Springs Road north of ...

Miners Club

Built 1862

Operated as morgue during Civil War

Marker is on Wentworth Springs Road north of Georgetown Road (California Highway 193), on the left when traveling north.

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Bishop James M. Thoburn

Methodist missionary to India, south Asia, and the Philippines, 1859 to 1908. Upon retirement he lived in Meadville until his death in 1922. He is buried in Greendale Cemetery.

Marker is on Hickory Street (Pennsylvania Route 77) 0.4 miles north of ...

Columbia Falls Town Hall

The Union Church was built in 1840 by the Union Meetinghouse Association to be used for non-denominational worship.

In 1898 the bell was donated to the church by the Columbia Falls Women's Society.

In 1903 the Church was deeded to the Town ...