Tallgrass Prairie Trail

"The immediate site of the post...opens out rapidly to the south in a beautifully undulating prairie."

Assistant Surgeon Joseph K. Barnes, describing the Fort Scott landscape in 1862.

Walk this short trail and imagine "the most magnificent prairie of the country," as ...

Pinney Corners

Site of the Home of Henry A. Pinney (1836-1905). The shoe factory owned by Mr. Pinney was located on land opposite his home on slightly over three acres of land at the corner of Lukes Wood and Oenoke. The factory, ...

The Opera House

Hayford Hall was built between 1866 and 1868 by Axel Hayford, a local contractor and businessman. It housed businesses on the lower level and a ballroom/theater with a balcony on the second level. Renamed the Belfast Opera House in 1883, ...

Bartlett's Ferry Dam; Antioch Baptist Church

<-- 1 ½ MI. --<

Rev. Simpson Wilson Barley (1827-1884), minister and doctor, operated a ferry, known as Bartley’s Ferry, 1 ½ miles west on the Chattahoochee River. He preached at the nearby Antioch Baptist Church, one of the earliest in ...

The Lightkeeper’s House

The lights of Dutch Gap

The foundation is all that remains of the lightkeeper’s house. The lightkeeper had to live on site to maintain the gas-powered lights which were once located on the bluff. Lights were constructed after the first Dutch ...

Southern Pacific Railroad

The S.P.R.R., building the nation's second transcontinental tail line eastward from California, reached Tucson on March 20, 1880. It was the occasion for one of the greatest celebrations in the history of the city and foretold the coming of a ...

Tarpey Depot

Built in 1892 as one of the three depots along the line of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad, this structure was originally located on the Tarpey Ranch just southeast of what is now the intersection of Ashlan and Clovis Avenues. ...

Dutch Gap Canal

Butler's Bypass

With the opposing armies locked in a protracted struggle around Petersburg and Bermuda Hundred, the James and Appomattox Rivers assumed added importance.

In August 1864, Union Gen. Benjamin Butler began excavations at Dutch Gap. When completed, his canal would ...

Joseph and Mary Robinson Martin House

Prominent Austin contractor George Fiegel completed this house in 1903 for Joseph Anthony (1867-1947) and Mary (Robinson)(d. 1934) Martin. A noted wild game conservationist, Joe Martin primarily is associated in Austin business history with the Austin White Lime Company. After ...

The Land Upon Which We Pray

This property granted for church purposes

by the Lord Proprietors of East Jersey

294 years ago, in the year 1682.

Provision was made in the grant for a

triangle or “gore” for the church.

The first church building, “Old First”

Dutch Reformed Church, was erected in ...