D.C.'s First Building Block

Jones Point Park

In 1791, surveyors on Jones Point began to lay out the ten-mile square that would become Washington, D.C. The first marker for the survey—the south cornerstone—was set in place on this spot. Although the stone within this protective ...

Murrah Federal Building Bombing

Oklahoma Remembers!

The Redbud is the state tree of Oklahoma. The Redbud trees located here and at other locations along the Turnpike have been placed in memory of the innocent victims of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Murrah Building ...

Site of the S.R. Bowen Buildings

1920-1989

Three industrial buildings were located at 1980 Lake Street and were operated by Samuel R. Bowen and his partner, Sisti Siracusa, as the S.R. Bowen Company and the Bowen Fishing Tool Company. The S.R. Bowen Company was founded in 1920 ...

Wells Fargo and Company Express Building

Utah Historic Site

Built in 1877

Architect unknown

Used by Wells Fargo Company and by St. George merchants, Woolley, Lund and Judd.

Marker is on Wells Fargo Road, on the left when traveling north.

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The Settling of Santa Clara / First Public Buildings / Missionar

[Side A:]The Settling of Santa ClaraThomas Carlyle said of the Switzers, "They are honest people... they are not philosophers or tribunes; but frank, honest landsmen."

In April 1861 a company of Mormon converts from Switzerland, under the direction of mission ...

New Buildings for White Haven

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

Grant's plans for developing the farm resulted in many improvements, including a barn and stable built between 1869 and 1872. The stable you see today housed Grant's horses. The barn that also appears in the ...

Site of Capitol Building

Louisville Georgia

First Capitol built by the State of Georgia. Used as seat of government 1796 - 1807

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 1) 0 miles east of Green Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Fort Omaha Headquarters Building

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Constructed in 1906, this double barracks building housed noncommissioned officers of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which had reactivated Fort Omaha in 1905. During World War I, this building served as South Post Headquarters for the Army’s ...

Masonic Lodge Building of 1887

This building was constructed by N. P. McKee and the Hancock Masonic Lodge in 1887. It was designed by Geo. W. Payne, a nationally renowned architect, with a large arched window and pyramid-shaped roof. in 1924 the building was purchased ...

Johnson-Frazier Building / Cox Produce Company

1914

Johnson-Frazier Building

Fireproof! Rat-proof! Mouse-proof! This is how the Johnson-Frazier Building's earliest occupant, Wichita Fire Proof Storage Co., billed the concrete and brick Goliath when it opened in 1914.

Other businesses were housed there over the years, such as City Transfer and ...