Fireproof Building

The Fireproof Building

has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses National significance in commemorating the history of the united States of America

1974

National Park Service United States Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from ...

The Carnegie Library

Side A:

This Carnegie Library was built in 1916 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation. It was constructed and furnished from a Carnegie Corporation grant of $10,000. Pickerington was one of the smallest of the 1,946 communities in the United States ...

Baltimore Boulevard

The asphalt slabs you just walked on are pieces of Baltimore Boulevard, a 15-mile road built by developers in the 1950s and destroyed by a storm in 1962. These broken slabs are now used only by gulls, which drop and ...

Cullen Boney Descendants

Cullen Boney and his wife, Phoebe Williams migrated from North Carolina and settled in the China Hill community of Telfair County in the eighteen twenties.

He had three children: Mary Jane Boney Cravey, Eliza Boney Reeves and Stephen Boney.

Stephen Boney married ...

World Record Bass

Approximately two miles from this spot, on June 2, 1932, George W. Perry, a 19-year old farm boy, caught was to become America`s most famous fish. The twenty-two pound four ounce largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoldes) exceeded the existing record by ...

The Ableman Homestead

An inn, one of several built in Delaware

towns during this period, was established

on this corner at the end of the 18th century

and remained open until the end of the

19th century. This site was purchased by

Abel Ableman and occupied from 1902 ...

Bill Moose [Crowfoot]

Last of the Wyandots. Born 1837 and whose death in 1937 marks the passing of the Indians from this territory.

Engraved by Zenker Brothers

Marker is on Riverside Drive (U.S. 33), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Beer Garden

This beer garden, a recent addition to Coloma, was built by Jim Bridgham in the mid 1950s. Jim and his sister Margaret operated a business called the “Hitching Rack” and built the beer garden so the “locals” could sit around, ...

Hibernian Hall

Hibernian Society

Founded March 17, 1801

Met in Corbett's Tavern until construction of this hall dedicated 1841. Long a civic life in disasters as in prosperity. Its presidents alternate Protestant and Catholic.

Marker is at the intersection of Meeting Street ...

Benedict Arnold Boot Monument

Erected 1887 by

John Watts de Peyster

Brev. Maj. Gen. S.N.Y.

2nd V. Pres’t Saratoga Mon’t Ass’t’n

In memory of

the “most brilliant soldier” of the

Continental Army,

who was desperately wounded

on this spot, the sally port of

Burgoynes “Great (Western) Redoubt”

7th October 1777,

winning for his countrymen

the Decisive ...