Cherrydale Masonic Hall

This two-story brick building was built in 1936 as the Cherrydale Masonic Hall. Designed with retail space on the first floor, the building serves as the home of the Cherrydale Masonic Lodge #42. This lodge is the second oldest Masonic ...

Cherrydale Volunteer Firehouse

The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire Department was the first fire company in Arlington County. Formed in 1898 and officially established in 1904, it originally consisted of 10 leather buckets, a ladder, and spirited volunteers. A community fundraising effort, including a contribution ...

Village Of Providence

(Unincorporated)

Union County

Providence is believed to be the second oldest Florida settlement next to St. Augustine. The Lonnie Summers Family found this statement written on the wall of the Old Odem House they purchased in 1936: "St. Augustine was ...

Leeds CCC Camp

Utah Historic Site

Built in 1933, the Leeds Civilian Conservation Corps Camp is significant as perhaps the best remaining example of a CCC camp in Utah. These camps were typically built of relatively temporary frame construction, and the surviving buildings and ...

A Stone Arch Bridge on the Galena Road

The Stone Arch Bridge that stands to the east of the present highway was on the Galena Road, once the most important trail in northern Illinois. Along this route innumerable people streamed northward to the lead mines near Galena every ...

Old Cornerstone / Smith's Crossroads

Scopes Trial Trail

Old Cornerstone

In 1832, the tree that marked the corner between John Abel and Robert Cosby was replaced with the stone by this plaque.

Smith's Crossroads

On Highway 30 west at the outskirts of Dayton, there is a Trail of Tears ...

Cottage Hotel

The prominent Lard family helped Lizzie Lard build the Cottage Hotel to support her two daughters after she was widowed 1893; it was completed in 1895. As Miami became the county seat and a regional trade center, the hotel prospered. ...

Miami Railroad Depot

When the Southern Kansas Railway Company of Texas built a line through Roberts County in 1887, Miami developed at the end of the track as a campsite for workers. The crew set up a kitchen and a tent hotel. Soon ...

Historic Roadside Park

The picnic area on US 60 in Roberts County is an early roadside park developed by the Texas Highway Department – now Texas Department of Transportation. This 1935 park accommodated motorists attending the state's centennial events in 1936. The park ...

The Galena Road

In the early 1830’s pioneer traffic moving north from Peoria crowded primitive trails and forced a direct route to Galena. In 1833, Levi Warner’s state survey marked the Galena Road. It cut through this schoolyard. Private Abraham Lincoln passed this ...