Town of Paradise Memorial Trailway

SPRR Milepost 198.2 – Site of the Paradise Rail Yard

The rail yard housed the depot, a water tank, a stockyard, as well as a siding and spur. A motorcar house was located further up the track. The depot was retired ...

Streetscape 1859

North side of the public square

This is the how the north side of the public square looked from this vantage point (circa 1859), looking east along Washington Street. The rickety wood structures of "Chicken Row" that had been familiar to ...

Puddler's Break

Legend has it there are many workers buried in Hoover Dam. However, due to the manner in which the Dam was constructed, this would have been impossible. "Puddlers" directed buckets of concrete over empty forms, released the concrete, and then ...

Streetscape 1859

West side of the public square

This is the how west side of the public square looked from this vantage point (circa 1859), looking north along Fifth Street. In September 1859 "daguerrean" (photographer) Preston Butler advertised his four photographic views of ...

Curran's Jewelry Shop

The Gregarious General Isaac B. Curran was a prominent citizen in Lincoln's Springfield. His store here on the south side of the square was a popular gathering place for Lincoln's political opponents. Curran arrived as a young silversmith from Ithaca, ...

Old Prison

Walking Tour Stop 5

Visitors are surprised and delighted to see an English looking castle standing in the heart of downtown Carlisle, but they wonder what it is and when it was built. For 130 years it was the Cumberland County ...

Old Paradise Depot

Constructed in 1903, this depot is one of three maintained along the Butte County Railroad, a 31 mile line from Chico to Stirling City, completed by Diamond Match Co. in 1904. The railroad was later acquired by Southern Pacific and ...

Middletown War Memorial Flagpole

Honoring Middletown's Veterans

who gave their lives

in the nation's wars

Dedicated June 14, 1995

Marker is at the intersection of Verity Parkway (Ohio Route 4 / 73) and Main Street, on the left when traveling north on Verity Parkway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Railroad Pass

Named for an 1890's railroad which was never built, Railroad Pass first became a destination after Professor Robert T. Hill discovered alunite in the area in 1908. A mining district was formed, but only small amounts of gold were found. ...

Point au Fer Historic Site

This wasn't always the quiet, peaceful place you find today. Point au Fer was once an important strategic military post.

The northern half of Lake Champlain used to be controlled by the French. On June 6, 1760, during the French ...