Dittmar-Robertson Building

The Dittmar-Robertson building is the oldest remaining structure of the five-point intersection of Wauwatosa’s historic village center. Erected in 1897 by a pioneer blacksmith, John F. Dittmar, it was first occupied by a hardware, plumbing and heating business. Since the ...

Nevada Theater

California’s oldest existing theater building. The Nevada opened September 9, 1865. Celebrities such as Mark Twain, Jack London and Emma Nevada have appeared on its stage. Closed in 1957. The theater was later purchased through public donations and reopened May ...

Cumberland County Historical Society & Hamilton Library Associat

Walking Tour Stop 19

The Hamilton Library Association was charterd in 1874, and this two-story brick building was erected in 1881 to house its collection. The library was made possible by a bequest of $2,000 from James Hamilton (1793-1873), a ...

Hager’s Fancy

(Circa 1740)

Third dwelling was built by Jonathan Hager, founder of Hagerstown Maryland, 1762; Captain of Scouts, French and Indian War, 1755–1763; member of the Non-Importation Association and of the Committees of Safety and of Observation, 1775; member of the General ...

Historic Flume and Lumberyard

Approximately one-half mile south of this point and west of the present highway lay the immense lumberyard of the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, the greatest of the Comstock lumbering combines operating in the Lake Tahoe Basin during 1870-1898.

Situated at ...

Old Providence Church

Daniel Boone attended, Squire, Jr., Samuel, and Mary Boone baptized here. Church name changed, 1790, from Howard's Creek to Providence. William Bush, a member of Boone's second Ky. expedition, built the present stone structure of native limestone. United Baptists formed ...

Elkmont, Alabama / Tenn. & Ala. Central Railroad

Front

The earliest settlers to this area moved across the Chickasaw boundary before 1810 and established the Sims and New Garden settlements. The area came to be known as Elkmont, for the once abundant elk, the Elk River and ...

Douglas County Courthouse

Designed by John G. Haskell and Fredrick Gunn in the Richardsonian Romanesque style

Constructed by the firm of Cuthbert and Sargent of Topeka, KS 1903-1904

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Street and 11th ...

Spencer's Ordinary

On this road, four miles south, the action of Spencer's Ordinary was fought, June 24, 1781, between detachments from Lafayette's and Cornwallis's armies.

Marker is at the intersection of Richmond Road (U.S. 60) and Lightfoot Road (County Route 646), on the ...

Claussen’s Corner

Built in the early 1850’s, year not documented, by Frank Egan, as the Central Park Hotel. Then, it included a brothel upstairs. The hotel was sold to Mrs. Mitrovich and renamed The Waverly Hotel. Blagoje “Billy” Ratkovich bought the hotel ...