Technocratic Cathedral

circa 1932

This building, designed and built by the Boothes, was made of redwood shipped through the Panama Canal. All the 4x6 timbers lie flat and are secured with galvanized dowels. Other features are glass block windows, a fireplace, and a ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Rough & Tumble Camps

Primitive construction camps dotted the Bitterroot Mountains between 1906 and 1912.

Hardy colorful gangs of workers from around the globe called these bleak and often ugly temporary settlements home.

The hard work and disagreeable conditions on the Milwaukee’s Western Extension ...

Declaration House

(Graff House)

In 1776, while attending the Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson rented two rooms from Jacob Graff, Jr., to avoid the "excessive heats of the city." Here, in Graff's house on the outskirts of town, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Wickedest City

Buried beneath busy Interstate 90 in the valley below are the bones of what the Chicago Tribune in 1909 named “the wickedest city in America”.

This “den of iniquity” sprouted up when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad began building ...

National Cemetery

This National Cemetery, established in 1886, is for interment of those who served honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States. their immediate families also have burial privileges.Many from indian battles of the northwest are buried here. Among the ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- St. Paul Pass Tunnel

The Milwaukee Road faced the daunting task of drilling a tunnel 23 feet high, 16 feet wide and 1.7 miles long into Idaho.

It was a damp, dark, dirty dig. After the approaches were prepared in 1906, and a faltering start ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Trail Follows the Trains

…and Historians Trace the History along the Trail.

When the Milwaukee Road abandoned its route over the Bitterroot Mountains, salvage companies stripped the line of all the rails, ties, signals, posts and everything else of value. The small fragments left behind ...

Stratford Veterans Monument

In Recognition Of

Service Rendered

To Our Country By

Men & Women

Of Stratford

Connecticut

During

National Crises

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 113) and North Parade Street, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Seaboard Air Line Passenger Station

[Front of Marker]:

This depot, built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway

in 1904, was the third passenger depot built in

Columbia, following the South Carolina Railroad

Depot on Gervais St., built about 1850, and the

Union Station on Main St., built in 1902. This ...

Stratford Point Lighthouse

Est. - 1822

Maintained & Operated by the

U.S. Coast Guard

Aids to Navigation Team

Long Island Sound

Marker is on Prospect Street 0.1 miles east of Riverside Drive, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org