Jumper Sawmill

In the 1880’s George Jumper established a steam powered sawmill 300' east of this monument, above the confluence of Little Brown’s Creek and China Gulch. An 80’ long building housed the mill. Oxen teams of ten or more were used ...

Skelton-Teasley House

1856

The brick home was built for the family of Dr. Oliver P. Skelton, physician, postmaster and Ordinary of Milton County. His son-in-law John I. Teasley, a cotton planter, subsequently occupied it. This Greek Revival style house has four rooms, a ...

Cañon City / The Gold Belt Tour

Bustling Center for Trade, Transportation, and Tourism

Cañon City

During the late 18th and early 19th Century, Cañon City prospered as a trade and transportation center serving the agriculture and mining industries of the region. From its earliest days, Cañon City attracted ...

Barret's Battery

Barret's Battery

C.S.A.

Commanded By

Isaac Lightner

Mortally Wounded

On Crest Of Hill

Nov. 25, 1863

Marker is at the intersection of North Crest Road and Lightfoot Mill Road, on the right when traveling north on North Crest Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Central Power Unit

Central power units were used to pump oil wells in the early days of the Kansas oilfields. One central power could pump as many as eighteen different wells, some up to half a mile away. In the 1950s producers began ...

Engagement at Davis Bridge

October 5, 1862

By late spring 1862, United States forces in the West threatened to cut the Confederacy in two, having captured both New Orleans and Memphis on the Mississippi River, and the vital railroad hub at Corinth, Mississippi, thereby severing ...

Star Drilling Machine

This machine was probably manufacturing [sic] in Chanute, Kansas in the late 1920's. It had been used in Eastern Kansas from the 1920's through the 1950's. This machine was highly portable when completely assembled and moved easily by horses and ...

Pole Trailer

Manufactured by the Spencer Trailer Company in Augusta, Kansas. This was used to haul tubing (the narrow pipe located on the trailer) or casing (wider pipe). Tubing and casing is the various pipe that is used inside the hole.

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Model K Star Spudder

This is a Model K Star Drilling Machine, also called a "spudder".

Drilling machines such as this one were used for two purposes:

1. To drill the initial hole for a rotary-drilled well.

2. To drill a complete oil well at shallow depth ...

Ending Slavery in Washington

Civil War to Civil Rights

To your right at the end of Indiana Avenue is Washington's first City Hall/Courthouse. Across Sixth Street is the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, a successor to the original courthouse.

The Old City Hall/Courthouse opened ...