Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Depot

Mission Revival Style depot, built 1906, restored 1990; part of Washington Commercial Historic District. Link to city's trading and industrial history, with substantial railroad machine shops and car works. Indiana stop of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's funeral train, April ...

Westernmost Naval Battle of the Revolution

On 25 February 1779 Col. George Rogers Clark captured Ft. Sackville at Vincennes from the British. About 6 miles west at Pointe Coupee on the Wabash River on 2 March 1779 Capt. Leonard Helm commanding 3 boats and 50 volunteers ...

Western Hotel

This buiding, erected by the Gilroy family in 1876, this building was purchased in 1902 by George T. Webber, who operated it as the Western Hotel. The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce was organized in its dining room. Between 1905 and ...

Western Laurens Volunteer Fire Department

The land for this building is donated to Western Laurens County Fire District by Joseph Edwin and Francis P. O'Dell as a memorial to their son Simuel Dennis O'Dell, one of the original Western Laurens County firemen.

Born August 31, 1951 ...

"My Western Home" or "Home on the Range"

On this site circa 1873

Dr. Brewster M. Higley

wrote the words to

"Home on the Range"

Adopted as official

State Song of Kansas

June 30, 1947

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In 1873 Dr. Brewster Higley wrote the words, Dan Kelley supplied the music, and the Harlan Brothers Orchestra started the ...

Woodville “The Lime Center of the World” / Maumee and Western Re

Woodville “The Lime Center of the World.” Woodville and the surrounding area is situated in the center of a huge deposit of some of the purest dolomitic limestone in the world. The absence of cracks in the rock stratum and ...

Virginia Western Community College Memorial

This memorial is dedicated to the administrators, faculty and staff whose long-term commitment to VWCC is deeply appreciated.

Marker can be reached from McNeil Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Western Maryland Railway Honor Roll

World War 1917–1918. (list of names)

Marker is on Main Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fruitvale School / Country School Era in Western Placer

Fruitvale School

Fruitvale School District, formed in 1888, bought a one and half acre site from Jeremiah and Elizabeth Fowler on which this school was built in 1889. Lewis Gage was the first teacher here. Additions to the structure were made ...

The Maumee and Western Reserve Road / Turnpike Milestones

Ohio Historical Marker

[Front Side]: "The Maumee and Western Reserve Road"

Sandusky Street (U.S. Highway 20) is the former Maumee and Western Reserve Turnpike. Native American tribes northwest of the Ohio River ceded the right of way for this 46-mile road to ...