Sarah Fairfield Hamilton, 1831-1909

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Sarah Fairfield Hamilton was a founder of the local chapter of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and led that organization to create Saco's first kindergarten, a nursery for mill workers' children, summer park programs and ...

Fort Saco in 1693 / Le Fort Saco en 1693

The Museum in the Streets

The Indians burned the township of Saco in 1688. Fort Saco was built on the future site of the Laconia Mills to protect the settlers in 1693. The fort served as stables during the construction of ...

Glass Mountains or Gloss Mountains

In February 1873 the name Glass Mountains appeared on a map issued by the Federal General Land Office. Two years later the same office issued another map calling them the Gloss Mountains. Thus precipitating a conflict that continues to this ...

The Chisholm Trail

1865 – 1893

Here passed the Old Cattle Trail, blazed by Jesse Chisholm, which finally stretched for eight hundred miles from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas over which cowboys from the pasture-lands of the great southwest drove their herds to ...

Camp Tonkawa

(front)

Site of German Prisoner of War Camp known as Camp Tonkawa – World War II – Jan. 1943 – Sept 1945

See other side for story

(back)

Between October and December 1942 more than 900 construction workers labored 24 hours a day to ...

Ponca City Library

Ponca City had been in existence for 11 years. She had schools, churches and even an opera house, but not a library. A group of women from the Twentieth Century Club decided to remedy this and convinced H.C.R. Brodboll to ...

Sena Plaza

When Don Juan Sena bought this land in 1796, Santa Fe belonged to Spain. When Major José D. Sena built this house for his bride Doña Isabel Cabeza de Baca in 1831, Santa Fe belonged to Mexico. In 1846 Santa ...

A Building Stood Here Before 1680

A building stood here before 1680. It was wrecked in the Great Indian Uprising. This house incorporates what remains.

Marker is on East Palace Avenue west of Cathedral Place, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

“Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train”

Front

The state of Pennsylvania authorized the “Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train” as an official Bicentennial project. It was one of five such trains that traveled across the country to reach Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, for the 1976 July ...

Captain Diego Arias de Quiros

In 1697 this property was granted to Captain Diego Arias de Quiros by Spanish royal decree for his part in the reconquest of New Mexico with De Vargas. In 1879 bought by L. Bradford Prince, later Territorial Governor. In 1942 ...