Beaver Creek

The history of the earth is written in the rocks. In Ohio, nearly 500 million years of time are recorded in our bedrocks, reflecting the coming of inland seas, the upheaval of mountain ranges and the birth and death of ...

Empire and the Carson River Mills

1864 - 1964

When the Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859, the problem of reducing the ore from the fabulously rich Virginia City mines had to be solved. Mills were built in Gold Canyon and Six Mile Canyon. In Washoe Valley, ...

John Steinbeck

Historic Cannery Row

The real neighborhood of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row.

Real people and places in the neighborhood of Monterey’s old Ocean View Avenue inspired fictional characters and establishments in the mind of John Steinbeck. Published in 1945, his novel Cannery Row ...

Building Cannery Row

Historic Cannery Row

Roofing contractor Charles L. Frost (top) supervises his crew hot mopping a Monterey cannery roof. Concentrated along the shoreline, the fish processing plants were subject to storm damage. In addition, changes were required to accommodate new technologies to ...

Miners Club

Built 1862

Operated as morgue during Civil War

Marker is on Wentworth Springs Road north of Georgetown Road (California Highway 193), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Georgetown Community United Methodist Church

During the 1850’s the Methodists were the first to serve in the mining towns of El Dorado County. Some ministers traveled on horseback from one mining town to another with a Bible and a Colt Revolver. Known as Georgetown Methodist ...

Columbia Falls Town Hall

The Union Church was built in 1840 by the Union Meetinghouse Association to be used for non-denominational worship.

In 1898 the bell was donated to the church by the Columbia Falls Women's Society.

In 1903 the Church was deeded to the Town ...

Roddy Law Office

Canadian born Thomas Roddy was admitted to the Crawford County Bar in 1870. He served on City Council, library boards & Market House oversight committee. In 1881 he won Elias Allen's suit which desegregated PA schools-all despite being profoundly deaf.

Marker ...

The Spirella Company

On this site were located the offices of the Spirella Company which produced made-to-measure corsets. The company provided jobs for 25% of Meadville's residents after the 1904 invention of a flexible steel stay by MM Beeman. Employee benefits included travel, ...

First Naval Battle of the American Revolution

This anchor symbolizes the historic ties that Machias people have with the sea, and their commitment to liberty as exemplified in the first naval battle of the American Revolution fought in Machias Bay between the British ship Margaretta and the ...