Christ Sanctified Holy Church

1892 - 1984

Was established on this island on February 14, 1892 by Joseph B. Lynch, not far from this location. Doctrine is Justification and Sanctification. This building was erected in 1903. Since this beginning churches are established throughout the south-eastern ...

Captain Timothy Hill House

Built circa 1800

is registered as a

Virginia Historic Landmark

and placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States Department of the Interior 2011

Marker is on Main Street.

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The Old Road to Boston

Erected by Ashuelot Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, April 12, 1902, to mark the beginning of the Old Road to Boston, over which the soldiers of the revolution from Keene marched under Captain Isaac Wyman, April 21, 1775, in ...

Queponco Railway Station

Newark, Maryland

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places 1996

Marker is on Patey Woods Road 0.1 miles west of Newark Road.

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Colonel Webb C. Hayes, M.H.

By his gift and endowment of Spiegel Grove with the Hayes Homestead and Hayes Memorial, he preserved for future generations this typical American home as a memorial to his beloved parents.Major 1st Ohio Cavalry through the campaigns in Cuba and ...

Old 1832 Jail

This building, erected in 1832, replaced an 1824 log structure and served as jail and sheriff’s residence until ca. 1879.

A scaffold erected just east of the jail was the scene of the last hanging in Parke County.

Marker is at the ...

John Kirby Allen (1810-19338)

Co-founder of Houston

Gravesite of

John Kirby Allen (1810-1838)

Co-founder of Houston

Houston in 1836 was a humid swamp overgrown with sweet gum trees and coffee bean weeds. In this spot, however, two brothers from New York recognized the future "commercial emporium of Texas."

John ...

Michel Bourdon

This Valley was discovered in 1822 by an expedition of Hudson's Bay Company trappers led by Michel Bourdon. Bourdon had come to the Northwest with David Thompson, who had started the Idaho fur trade in 1808-9. Trappers searched everywhere for ...

Pioneer Family

The first twenty-three families of Volga-Germans arrived in Victoria on April 8, 1876, and established the Village of Herzog in the area north of this point. The first religious activities of these settlers centered around the Village Cross. In the ...

Bella Union Hotel Site

Near this spot stood the Bella Union Hotel, long a social and political center. Here, on October 7, 1858, the first Butterfield Overland Mail stage from the East arrived 21 days after leaving St. Louis. Warren Hall was the driver, ...