Jim Yarnell's (Untitled) Smoky Hills of West Virginia (1960)

Wichita Art Museum Trail Walk Path

Though trained as a painter, the medium Jim Yarnell (1917-[2011]) most enjoyed was photography. He was appointed advertising manager of the Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita. During the summer of 1962, Yarnell spent 58 days ...

Fountain Street

At the turn of the century, the area around Mathewson Street was the core of Providence's entertainment district. By 1916, Providence had as many as sixteen theaters.

The site next to Grace Church marked the changes. The Nickel theater known as ...

Norton Common Burial Ground

The land which comprises this cemetery dates back to June 1702, and is the original town common. Originally called "The Common," this land consisting of approximately five acres, is the first land set apart for common use in Norton. Situated ...

The Pacolet River Flood of 1903

At dawn on the morning of June 6, 1903, floodwaters roared through the Pacolet River valley. As the high water thundered downstream from mill village to mill village, people in the path of the flash flood had no warning it ...

Winneccunnett Pond Area

Winneccunnett Pond is the only sizable, natural body of water in Norton, Massachusetts. Winneccunnett is a Native American word meaning "the place of the black geese." A Native American village was established on the north end of the pond long ...

The 1749 Foundation

Below this concrete cap sits the stone foundation Beavertail's 1749 lighthouse.

Initially built to provide safe passage into Newport's colonial harbor, it was designed and built by Peter Harrison, "America's first architect," who later designed the Redwood library, Touro Synagogue and ...

Thar’s Gold in Them Hills!

You might think the discovery of gold led to instant success, but that was not the case.

Early miners lacked the capital to develop the mines. The Sierra Buttes Gold Mining Co. Ltd. bought the mines in the 1860’s and developed ...

Isaac N. Hockaday Building

Built 1908 - 1909

Built To Manufacture Paint

For The Hockaday Paint Co.

Historic Address: 140/148 N. Mosley

Current Address: 150 N. Mosley

Marker is on Mosley near 1st Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Winter in the Sierra

A Struggle For Survival

Back in its hey-day Eureka Mills, high up on the mountainside, was a primarily a family town. Jamison City, down near the creek, was a place for single miners to live.

The mountainside took on quite a village ...

Beckwourth Pass

Emigrant Trail

Lowest pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Discovered in 1851 by

James P. Beckwourth

Dedicated to the discoverer and to the pioneers who passed along this trail by the Las Plumas Parlor No. 254 N.D.G.W.

May 1937

No desert’s waste nor redskins bold could ...