Weller House

In the decades after the end of the Civil War, an unstable economy created economic and social turmoil in the United States. People looking for opportunity migrated to the West.

The Kern County Land Company founded the Rosedale Colony in 1890. ...

Maxwell House Coffee Plant

From Field to Factory in Hoboken

The Maxwell House Coffee Plant stretched along Hoboken's waterfront from Tenth to Twelfth Streets. It was a marvel of its time, the largest coffee processing plant in the world, and a local landmark. Before the ...

Howell House

In 1891, William Howell hired local carpenter John Singleton to construct this Queen Anne style Victorian home on the northeast corner of 17th and H Streets in Bakersfield.

William Howell moved with his parents and sisters from Nebraska to Kern ...

Maxwell Chambers House

A good example of the

larger homes built

about 1820. Now used

by the Rowan Museum.

Located ½ block south.

Marker is at the intersection of W Innes Street and S Jackson Street, on the left when traveling west on W Innes Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Fire House in Caldwell

1909 — 1983

These bricks and stonework are from the original building.

Marker is on 30 Roseland Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

McCorkle-Fewell-Long House / Oakland

McCorkle-Fewell-Long House

This two-story frame house with central hall was a typical piedmont farmhouse when built, probably by Stephen McCorkle prior to 1821. Samuel M. Fewell significantly altered the house during his ownership 1867-1890. In 1906 the house was purchased and ...

Wells County Courthouse

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and Market Street, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street. ...

Maxwell House Hotel

On this site stood the Maxwell House Hotel built by John Overton in 1859. It was destroyed by fire on Christmas Day, 1961. After wartime use as a barracks, hospital and prison, it was formally opened as a hotel in ...

Site: J. Oliver Powell House Sherman's H'dq'rs

West of this point 75ft., was the ante-bellum residence of James Oliver Powell (1826-1873), Sherman's headquarters, July 19, 1864.

Sherman traveled with Schofield's 23d A.C. from the Chattahoochee River as Power's Fy. July 17 & arrived here July 19.

The house was ...

Red House and the McDowell Family

Nearby once stood a log house painted red built by the McDowell family. John McDowell received land here for surveying Borden's Grant in the late 1730's. In 1742 McDowell was killed during a conflict between settlers and Indians. Dr. Ephraim ...