Handy's Dairy 1916 - -2002

A thriving business started with half a cow on east Anderson Street. In 1916 Grandma Edith Handy started milking a neighbor’s cow for half the milk and was unaware that she was opening a new business that would ultimately serve ...

The Founding of Greencastle, Indiana

The name Indiana means “Land of the Indians”. For untold centuries, some say millennia, the Indians moved across the land. It was their hunting ground. Permanent Indian settlements in Indiana were to the north and to the south. And then ...

Hagemeister Park

Packers Heritage Trail

Hagemeister Park was the home of the Packers from 1919, their inaugural season as a semipro team, through 1922, their second year in the NFL.

Before East High School and City Stadium were built, Hagemeister Park included the tract ...

White Castle

Wichita Historical Trail Walk Path

White Castle was founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas. Cook Walter A. Anderson partnered with insurance man Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram to make White Castle into a chain of restaurants. At the time, Americans were hesitant ...

Missouri Pacific Depot Veterans Memorial

Honoring those who passed through

this depot answering their call

to duty during WWII

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 77) and 3rd Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

City Stadium

Packers Heritage Trail

City Stadium is one of the last remaining relics from the early days of the National Football League. Although its appearance has greatly changed from the time when the Packers played here, it stands as a monument to ...

Arthur W. Keddie

1842 – 1924

If there is a dream within your hand

Open your hand to let the dream fly free.

A young Scotch Canadian engineer, surveyor and cartographer came to Quincy in 1864, remaining to ply his craft and make history.

His vision of ...

Forest Stationers

The Huskinson Block

Built in 1876, it is one of the first permanent structures in the Quincy Business District. Businesses of this site included Cohn Bros. Dry Goods, U.S. Post Office, I.O.O.F. Lodge, E.C.V. Hall, National Forest Supervisors office, Quincy Hardware ...

Birthplace Of The Packers

Packers Heritage Trail

The Green Bay Packers were organized on Aug. 11, 1919, in the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building that stood here at 315 Cherry Street. The meeting took place in the editorial department on the second floor.

Two days later, ...

The Eaton Hotel

Eaton Place

The Eaton Hotel, built in 1887 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, is the cornerstone of the Eaton Place project. This endeavor saved both the original hotel and the remainder of the historic 500 ...