St. Luke's Chapel

Landmarks of New York

This third oldest existing church edifice in Manhattan was built in 1821 on farmland donated by Trinity Parish to the independent parish of St. Luke's Church, of which Clement C. Moore was a founder and first ...

Robinson Memorial Gate

In Memory of

Franklin C. Robinson

of the class of 1873 for thirty six

years teacher of Bowdoin men

and in Memory of his wife

Ella Maria Tucker Robinson

Marker is at the intersection of Maine Street and Bath Road (Maine Route 24), on the left ...

Thomaston Historical Timeline

1605

Capt. Geo. Waymouth explores and names the St. Georges River

1630

To trade with Indians native to area post built near Wadsworth St. Bridge

1692

St. Georges River is boundary between the French and English territories

1719

Two blockhouses built at foot of Knox Street as ...

Las Moras Masonic Lodge Building

(First County Courthouse)

Built in 1878-1879 to serve as the first county-owned courthouse for Kinney County, this structure served that purpose for thirty-two years. In 1911 it became the headquarters of the Las Moras Masonic Lodge, which was chartered in 1876. ...

First Baptist Church / Mt. Olive CME Church

(Front Side):

First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and built in 1906. It is constructed of yellow bricks along a Georgian-architectural style. It housed a congregation of 2,200 members which organized the first Sunday ...

Phi Gamma Delta House

Law, Law and Potter, Architects

This house is significant for its association with the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity as well as for its English Tudor revival style design by local master architects Law, Law and Potter. Executed in rusticated local limestone, ...

Black Jack Ketchum

Thomas "Black Jack" Ketchum, leader of a notorious band of train robbers, was wounded in August 1899 while trying to rob a train near Folsom. He surrendered the next day. He was tried and convicted under a law making train ...

Confederate Navy Yard, Saffold

At Saffold, “accessible by steamboats from all points on the river”, David S. Johnston operated the Southern Confederate States Navy Yard. Here the gunboat Chattahoochee was built under contract signed October 19, 1861. Lt. Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN, formerly ...

Confederate Field Hospital

Battle of Mill Springs

This is the site of the Confederate Hospital used by Confederate surgeons after the Battle of Mill Springs. The site is being preserved with the help of a Federal grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, ...

Elgin Milk Condensing Company

Gail Borden, pioneer in the food preservative industry, established a milk condensing plant on this site in 1865. His discovery incorporated a process by which water was evaporated from milk, and sugar added as a preservative. This process, patented in ...