Lake Delton Catastrophe

On the morning of June 9, 2008, after several days of drenching rains, flood waters overtopped the banks of Lake Delton and washed away a narrow strip of land separating the lake from the Wisconsin River. Raging waters sent the ...

Pelton Wheel Manufacturing Site

The Pelton Water Wheel, first commercially manufactured here at George Allan’s Foundry & Machine Works in 1879, was a major advancement in water power utilization and greatly advanced hard-rock mining. Its unique feature was a series of paired buckets, shaped ...

The Pelton House

This pre-Revolutionary homestead is in three distinct sections, each representing a different period. The earliest was erected in 1730, the central portion in 1776, and the third in 1832.

Originally built by Johannes De Groot, the house passed to the Pelton ...

Henry Shelton Sanford

Grove and Experimental Gardens

In this vicinity Henry Shelton Sanford, pioneer citrus grower, established the St. Gertrude grove in 1871. There, and at his Belair grove and experimental gardens, he advanced the industry through development of some 140 types of citrus. ...

Kelton House

When Fernando Cortez and Sophia Stone Kelton built this house in 1852, it was the last residence on East Town Street and was surrounded by pastureland. Ardent abolitionists, the Keltons were members of the local antislavery society. Family tradition states ...

Laurelton Veterans Memorial

This memorial is to honor the fallen in:

W.W. I

W.W. II

Korean Conflict

Vietnam Era

Grenada

Lebanon

Panama

Persian Gulf War

Marker is on North Conduit Avenue near 143rd Road.

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Felton Covered Bridge

Built in 1892-93 and believed to be the tallest covered bridge in the country, it stood as the only entry to Felton for 45 years. In 1937 it was retired from active service to become a pedestrian bridge and figured ...

The Belton Standpipe

The National Register

of Historic Places:

The Belton

Standpipe

Dedication Plaque:

The Belton Standpipe

Historical Landmark Built 1908, Restored 1990

Placed on the State and National Archive's Register 1987

Mayor

Leo Fisher

City Council

James A. Hawkins, Wallace P. Shaw

Mike Rowland, C.L. (Bill) Oates

Francis Marshall, Sam F. Hanks

John Edwards, City Administrator

Bob ...

Belton Depot

Replacing the wooden structure located across the street that had served the Belton Community since 1853, the brick Southern & Blue Ridge Combined Railway Depot was designed in 1907 and completed by 1910. In the heyday of passenger and freight ...

Campbelton

Colonial river port, incorporated in 1762. Later merged with Cross Creek to form the town of Fayetteville.

Marker is at the intersection of Person Street and Broad Street, on the right when traveling east on Person Street.

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