Alvah N. Belding Library

Alvah N. Belding erected this library in 1917/18 as a memorial to his parents, Hiram and Mary Wilson Belding. Alvah and his brother Hiram began peddling silk around Belding (then Patterson's Mills) in 1858. With the help of their brother ...

Belrockton Dormitory

Built in 1906, the Belrockton is the last remaining boardinghouse of the three provided by the Belding Brothers and Company for its single female workers. A major silk manufacturer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the company employed ...

Pere Marquette Railway Depot

Completed in 1923 for the Pere Marquette Railway, this depot is typical of the railroad stations that served Michigan towns during the early decades of the twentieth century. The depot replaced an earlier, wood frame station built during the 1880s ...

Flat Rock Baptist Church

[side A]

One of the oldest Baptist churches in Western North Carolina. It was constituted as Petty's Meeting House on June 10, 1783. The name was changed to Flat Rock Baptist Church in 1802. Under the leadership of William Petty, the ...

Digging Down and Building Up

People, machines, and animals all played a part in the slow process of raising the walls that shaped Fort Knox. But before these walls could be built, people, machines, and animals also worked to prepare the site by earth, blasting ...

George Washington Boulder

George Washington Boulder

On this rock

President George Washington

rested and ate dinner, enroute

from Salisbury to Winston-Salem

May 31, 1791

Erected by

Gen Wm. Davidson Chapter D.A.R.

Lexington N.C.

1926

Marker is on Route 150, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Santa Fe Trail - Cimarron Cutoff / Clayton

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Santa Fe Trail

Cimarron Cutoff

The Santa Fe Trail was the major trade route between New Mexico and Missouri from 1821 until arrival of the railroad in 1880. The Cimarron Cutoff, a major branch of the ...

Clayton Dinosaur Trackway

One of the best dinosaur track sites in the world can be viewed at Clayton Lake State Park. More than 500 fossilized footprints, made by at least eight kinds of dinosaurs, are visible on the lake’s spillway. These tracks were ...

Building Together for Youth

The National Congress of Colored parents and teachers grew from a meeting called at the request of Selena Sloan Butler through the school principal, Cora B. Finley, at Yonge Street School, March 14, 1911. As interest grew, other school units ...

Grass Lake / Michigan Central Railroad Depot

(side 1)

Grass Lake

The first settlers arrived in Grass Lake in 1829. Two years later a post office, the second in Jackson County, opened at the settlement. In 1832 Grass Lake Township was created; the current boundaries were established ...