Oldest Commercial Building in Chippewa Falls

The building to your right is the oldest commercial building in Chippewa Falls. It was built (Circa 1859) by Peter Morie (Morey) and was used originally as a Saloon and Boarding House for lumberjacks and others. In 1861 at the ...

The Charles Carroll House

Birthplace of Charles Carroll of Carrollton (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence and the last of the signers to die.

Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1702 – 1782), father of Charles ...

Galisteo Basin / Southern Rockies

Galisteo Basin. The extensive lowland south of here is called Galisteo basin, a sag in the earth’s crust where rock layers are depressed and thickened. It is one of the northernmost basins in the Basin and Range province in New ...

Plant City High School

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on North Collins Street north of East Herring Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Birthplace of Farm Credit

This 280 acres was collateral for the nation's first Federal Land Bank loan made on April 10, 1917 to farmer-stockman A. L. Stockwell. In those days, farmers and ranchers found credit hard to come by. If available, it was often ...

Camp Criley 1872

Camp Criley was established in 1872 as a supply station for workmen building the Santa Fe Railroad, name changed to Garfield in 1873 by pioneers settling here.

This park was planned in 1880 and the first trees planted in April 1882. ...

The Edwards County Historical Society

This Church was built in 1884 in Wendel, Kansas. In 1917 the church was moved to Centerview, Kansas and moved to Kinsley, Kansas in September 1967.

The church was sold at public auction, bought by L.E. Brown, and later was donated ...

Clarkdale Mill Village Historic District

Circa 1931

The Clarkdale Thread Mill and its 96 bungalow style homes were designed by the J. E. Sirrine Company of Greenville, South Carolina, a company noted for progressive mill village planning, for the Clark Thread Company, a Scottish company with ...

The Casemate - Key to Fort Design

If you were to visit the nation's masonry forts built during the Fort Knox era, you would see many features common to most of them. One such feature is the casemate, a large enclosed space with a high, arched ceiling ...

The Lone Tree Incident

During the first half of the 19th century the U.S. government, in response to public pressure for land and resources, began a program of concentrating Indian tribes on reservations. After the Civil War, an ever growing number of settlers made ...