The Changing Faces of H Street

Hub, Home, Heart

The handsome church on this corner is the second to occupy this spot. The first was a small brick chapel built by John A. Douglas in 1878 for the new Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after, it ...

Enterprising Families

Hub, Home, Heart

The small scale and low rents of H Street's oldest buildings have lured waves of immigrant entrepreneurs since the buildings were new in the 1880s. By 1930, alongside Greek, Italian, Irish, and other immigrant-owned shops, at least ...

The Wilder Home / The Little Books Began Here

(Side A) The Wilder Home 1928-1936

In 1928, after living abroad for several years, Rose Wilder Lane returned to her childhood home on Rocky Ridge Farm. With proceeds from her writings Rose built her parents a modern house. The keys were ...

A Gathering Place

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Between 1100 and 1200, more people lived in this area than ever before, or since. Located along routes linking large populations to the northeast and south, villages here were well situated for trade. As people, goods, and ideas converged ...

Mediterranean Imports

Hub, Home, Heart

Maryland Avenue in the 1930s was home to immigrants from around the Mediterranean. Evelyn Kogok Hier grew up at 1328 Maryland Avenue. She remembered her next-door neighbor, the Right Reverend Ayoub (Job) Salloom, hosting after-church gatherings where ...

Depot Historic District

Well-preserved industrial complex grouped about a railroad depot, center of railroad industry, the impetus to Meridian's growth after 1860. Included farm products processing businesses of inventor G.W. Soule.

Marker is on Front Street near 18th Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

Tanks Memorial Stadium Opening Day Nov. 25, 1926

Ironton Tanks 47, Cleveland Indians 0

November 30, 1930, was a classic Indian summer day in southern Ohio. Balmy, shirt-sleeve temperatures greeted the 10,000 football fans who flocked into old Redland Field in Cincinnati to watch the upstart, small-town Ironton Tanks ...

Wilder's Pecan Tree

Wind claimed this Pecan Tree in 2002

The Wilder's [sic] planted this tree c.1900

Courtesy hmdb.org

Carl "Sub" Mays

1891 - 1971

Carl grew up in the Prairie Hollow community south of Mansfield.

Mays made his major league debut as a pitcher on April 15, 1915. His famous spitball submarine delivery resulted in a heavy, sinking effect that batters easily misjudged. ...

Veterans / Pioneers Memorial

State of Missouri 1821 • County of Webster 1855 • City of Seymour 1895-1995

(Side A)

In honor and memory of all veterans

of the Seymour area

who served our country in times of

peace and war and to those

who paid the supreme sacrifice

so that ...