Inn of Jacob Crounse

Built 1833. Midway tavern

where horses were changed on

Schoharie-Albany

Stage Coach Route

Marker is on New York Route 146, on the right when traveling west.

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Curious Outbuildings

Stephen F. Jones spared no expense in the construction of his Spring Hill Ranch outbuildings.

The Flint Hills provided the main building materials for both the house and outbuildings - high quality limestone quarried and hand cut here in Chase County.

Like ...

Little Barn on the Prairie

Upon completion, ranch owner Stephen F. Jones learned that his barn was one of the largest barns in the state of Kansas at the time.

Like most of the buildings on the ranch, the Spring Hill barn was built of limestone ...

Anderson Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Anderson Presbyterian

Church Cemetery

Founded 1837

Land Given by

Judge J.N. Whitner

Used as the First

Public Burial Ground

For the Village

Marker can be reached from West Whitner Street (State Highway 24).

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The Johlin Cabin

Pearson Metropark is one of the last remaining pieces of the Great Black Swamp, which once blanketed much of the region.The Johlin Cabin is a log home built in the swamp in 1867. Originally located about 1.5 miles from here ...

Build It And They Will Come

Battleground to Community

In 1818 the Private Rockville and Washington Turnpike Co. began building a road to link Washington City to Rockville, Maryland. This road helped create a village. A toll gate on what today is Georgia Avenue between Quackenbos ...

Ebenezer AME Church

This church is part of the African Methodist Episcopal congregation, the oldest independent black institution in the country. The origins of the A.M.E. church date back to the late 18th century, when blacks withdrew from the parent Methodist Church in ...

Happy Home Baptist Church

(Front text)

This church, founded soon after the Civil War, held its first services in a brush arbor in the Woods community of what was then Barnwell County. It built its first permanent church, a frame building, in the ...

Brock's Cenotaph

[Text on North Side of Marker]:

Near the spot

Major-General

Sir Isaac Brock, K.C.B.

Provisional Lieutenant

Governor of Upper Canada

fell on 13 - October, 1812

while advancing to repel

the invading enemy.

[Text on South Side of Marker]:

This stone

Was placed by His Royal Highness

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

on ...

Brown's Point

Brown's Point

Here Gen. Sir Isaac Brock

called out on his way to

Queenston Heights

13th October 1812

"Push On

York Volunteers."

Marker is on Niagara Parkway just south of Brown's Point Circle, on the left when traveling south.

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