Cabotville Canal

For 150 years this cluster of red brick mill buildings on the Chicopee River served as the community's industrial anchor. The complex was conceived, designed and built by America's first generation of venture capitalists, the legendary Boston Associates.

In 1831 the ...

The Meeting Street School

[Upper Marker:]

This building was erected in 1769 as a public school house by the town and its properties. Occupied by Brown University in 1770. One of the four first free public school buildings in 1800. Occupied by a school for ...

Birthplace of U.S. Copper Industry

In this building in 1801 Paul Revere-famed " Midnight Rider" Patriot and silversmith- founded an industry as well as a business.

Here he rolled copper successfully for the first time in America. Thus beginning one of the most vital industries in ...

Mrs. Addie Cowley Bradley

In honor of

Mrs. Addie Cowley Bradley

who was the first white girl born

in Eldorado Township;

the first in Butler County;

the first in the Fifth District of Kansas.

Born May 4, 1858. Died Feb. 27, 1932.

Boulder furnished by

W.H.L. Wallace

Womens Relief Corps. No. 7.

ElDorado Kansas

Courtesy ...

Schooner Daniel Lyons

Historic Shipwreck

Type: Wooden Schooner, three masted

Built: 1873, George Goble, Oswego, N.Y.

Sank: October 18, 1878

Length: 138’ Beam: 26’

Cargo: Wheat

Depth of Wreckage: 110’

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

About eight miles northeast of here, the wooden schooner Daniel Lyons rests 110 ...

Steam Barge Francis Hinton

Historic Shipwreck

Type: Wooden steam barge

Built: 1889, Hansen & Scove, Manitowoc, Wis.

Sank: November 16, 1909

Length: 152’ Beam: 31’

Cargoes: Lumber, wood products

Propulsion: Propeller

Depth of Wreckage: 15’

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

About one-quarter mile offshore from this point lies the wreck ...

Schooner Rouse Simmons

Historic Shipwreck

Type: Wooden schooner, three-masted

Built: 1868, Allen McClelland and Company, Milwaukee

Sank: November 23, 1912

Length: 124’ Beam: 27’

Cargo: Lumber, wood products, Christmas trees

Depth of Wreckage: 165’

Lives lost: 16

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

About 12 miles northeast of this spot, ...

Pacific Brewery

One of four Gold Rush breweries in Weaverville, the Pacific Brewery building was built by Fred Walters in 1855. Walters sold to Lorenz and Hagelman in 1865. John Meckel bought the business from Lorenz in 1878. Meckel died in 1889, ...

P.O.W. Camp Chapel

This chapel is one of the few physical reminders of the days this site served as an Italian Prisoner of War Camp during World War II. The prisoners, several of them fine artisans and craftsmen, designed and built the chapel, ...

Weaverville Chinatown

Chinatown business district was centered in this area. On September 10, 1874, fire destroyed everything from the corner of Highway 3 & Main Street to the Pacific Brewery, except four adobe buildings. Again, on September 30, 1905, fire destroyed all ...