LACEY STREET THEATER (1939)

504 Second Avenue

Construction of the Lacey Street Theater began in 1939, and this Art Deco style building opened in 1940. Austin E. “Cap” Lathrop, Fairbanks businessman and financier, was its owner. The Lacey Street Theater, with its distinguished neon sign, ...

IEEE Milestone

IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing

Alternating Current Electrification, 1886

On 20 March 1886 William Stanley provided alternating current electrification to offices and stores on Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He thus demonstrated the first practical system for providing electrical ...

Memorial Street Light

Memorial Street Light

erected by

Massachusetts Electric Company

June 28, 1986

in recognition of

William Stanley

and his contributions to the

Electric Utility Industry

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Cottage Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Civil and Spanish-American Wars Memorial

Memorial

to

the Veterans

of the Civil and

Spanish-American

Wars.

[Honor Roll of Veterans]

Gettysburg · Vicksburg

Antietam · Monitor&Merrimac

Marker is on Minden Avenue near 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Booker T. Washington High School

Booker T. Washington High School

1916 - 1974

From the day it opened its doors in 1916 Booker T. Washington High School played a major roll in the life of

Columbia's black community. Originally a school with all grades, eventually it ...

The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad

The Burlington & Missouri River Railroad entered Nebraska at Plattsmouth in 1870 and built west to join the Union Pacific at Kearney Junction (now Kearney city) on September 3, 1872. The railroad bridge into Kearney was used for 104 ...

St. Joseph’s College

September 10, 1924 – October 17, 1989

This monument marks the former campus of St. Joseph’s College. Established with the primary purpose of training candidates for Catholic Priesthood, the college also educated thousands of young men who entered public service throughout ...

Battle Above the Clouds

Hooker's troops

drove the Confederates

from Lookout Mountain

On November 24, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander, ordered Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces to storm Lookout Mountain. Hooker's men swept up the western slope of the mountain from your left, ...

William Stanley

William Stanley

1858 1916

Inventor

His genius made Great Barrington the first community to be lighted by alternating current in March 1886.

Monument erected by the Rotary Club of Great Barrington on its fiftieth anniversary.

May 18th 1974

Marker is at the intersection of Main ...

Lucy Laney Elementary School

Side 1:

On this site, in 1954, Lucy Laney Elementary School was opened with the mission of educating black children in the Waverly Hall, Shiloh, Ellerslie, and surrounding areas. The school was named in honor of Lucy Craft Laney, a famous ...