Boston Common

Founded 1634

The Common

an Historic Overview

In 1634, only four years after John Winthrop and the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled the Shawmut Peninsula and created the town of Boston, these colonists bought a 48-acre tract of land on the ...

Abigail Adams

Adams Nat’l Hist Park

“Improve your understanding for acquiring useful knowledge and virtue, such as will render you an ornament to society, an Honour to your Country, and a Blessing to Your parents.”

Abigail Adams in a letter to her 10-year-old ...

Butterfield Overland Stage

On September 16, 1857, John Butterfield, a New Yorker, received a contract with the U.S. Post Office Department to establish reliable transportation between Missouri and San Francisco.

As a young man he joined with Henry Wells and William Fargo to ...

Tuscumbia's Oakwood Cemetery

This burial ground was designated on General John Coffee's 1817 survey and original map "Plan of a Town at the Coldwater Spring." The oldest tombstone carries the burial date 1821 and the cemetery contains graves of veterans from all wars ...

First Baptist Church

This congregation was organized in July 1823 as Concord Church, later known as Union Church, then as Tuscumbia Baptist. Jeremiah Burns was the first pastor. It began meeting at this site about 1845 in a plain wooden building. The New ...

115th Signal Battalion

Organized 1940

At this site where once stood Fort Willingham (Armory) the 115th Signal Battalion was organized December 1, 1940. Originally the 2nd Battalion, 151st Engineers, it was organized a number of times from 1940 to 1959 as its mission was ...

Old Rapides Bank Building

This structure was built on property that once belonged to Alexander Fulton. He had acquired it at the end of the 18th century from Marguerite Cecile Christophe Varrangue. Various persons occupied this site until it was acquired by Rapides Bank ...

Quaker Burial Ground

The following people were buried at the Quaker meeting house graveyard on King Street and were reinterred at this site in 1974.

(Left Column)

John Allen - 1720

Bena Austin - 1735

John Cooper - 1715

Mary Fisher Bayly Crosse ...

The Hotel Bentley

The hotel was built in 1907-1908 by Joseph A. Bentley, prominent lumberman and businessman. Bentley came to Central Louisiana from Pennsylvania to engage in the sawmill business and the cutting of the virgin pine forest which was the first serious ...

September 11th, 2001

"Greater love hath no man than to

lay down his life for his fellow man"

This is a remnant of an iron girder from the World Trade Center in New York City. It is enshrined here in remembrance of those who gave ...