Joshua Mitchell Building

This building was constructed in 1836 by Joshua Mitchell. It was one of the first brick commercial store houses in Hannibal. Located on 2nd Street, now called Main St., the hub of commercial activity. It was purchased in 1844 by ...

Shipyards in Rockport

Shipbuilding was a natural industry for Rockport. The earliest recorded ship built here was the Connie, constructed in 1880 by Bludworth & Company. The Bludworth family specialized in building pleasure craft and scows.

In 1917, World War I prompted construction of ...

Steam Era Signal and Switchstand

The purpose of the railroad signal is not unlike that of a traffic light; it tells locomotive engineers when they can proceed, when they should proceed with caution, and when they must stop. This type of railroad signal, which uses ...

Mark Twain's Father's Law Office

Young Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) saw a dead man on the floor in here one night. Sam went out at a window, taking the sash along with him. "I didn't need the sash," he recalled, "but it was handier to ...

The Monument to Women of the Southern Confederacy

(Top)

1861  In Memory of the Women of Our Southland  1865

(Center)

Let this mute but eloquent

structure speak to generations

to come, of a generation of

the past. Let it repeat

perpetually the imperishable

story of our women of the 60s.

Stockade Historic District

The Seventeenth Century

The Schenectady Stockade is one of the oldest communities in America. Founded by the Dutch on land purchased from the Mohawk Indians in 1661, it came under English rule three years later. From the earliest days a ...

The Old Main Watch

Ehem. Hauptwache

[Marker text in German:]

1774 unter Fürstbischof

Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim

nach Plänen von J.E. Roppelt erbaut

militärische Embleme von

Johann Bernhard Kamm

Repräsentationsgebäude der fürstbischöfliche Infantrie

[Marker text translated into English, more or less:]

Constructed in 1774 under Prince Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim according to ...

Sudley Church

People were on their way to worship when thousands of Federal soldiers suddenly appeared marching south on Sudley Road. Within minutes the sound of gunfire came from the direction of Matthews Hill. As wounded men stumbled back behind the lines, ...

A Victorian Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery---The necropolis that in life (Cornelius Volk) did so much to beaut(ify) and make attractive" (Quincy Daily-Herald, 1898). Among significant historical Woodland memorials are the gravestones of Orville and Eliza Browning. Abraham Lincoln's closest Quincy friends. The couple rest ...

Cast Steel Bell

Cast Steel Bell

Sheffield, England, 1860

Made by the Naylor Vickers & Co. foundry using E. Riepe’s patent. This bell hung in the steeple of the Methodist Church on Main Street, Sheffield, MA (now a private home). Donated by Tom and Cynthia ...