The Old White

1858 - 1922

Here stood a famous hostelry affectionately known as

The Old White

Once the pride of the Old Dominion

Whose gracious hospitality, beautiful surroundings and healing waters gained national renown and made it the object of many a pilgrimage.

Here gathered from ...

White House Station

Date: 1892

The Somerville & Easton Railroad first reached the rural community of White House in 1848 and a modest depot was constructed to shelter travelers as they waited for the stagecoach. By 1860, a small community, aptly named White House ...

Birthplace of White House Aide Mary Elizabeth Carpenter

Great-granddaughter of builders. Daughter of Thomas S. and Mary Elizabeth (Robertson) Sutherland.

First woman vice president of student body, University of Texas. Married Leslie Carpenter; has 2 children. In 1954 was president Women's National Press Club.

First woman ever to serve as ...

Elizabeth White House

The Elizabeth White House, built about 1854, was for many years the home of Miss White (1893-1976), a Sumter native who was an internationally-acclaimed artist and lifelong patron of the arts. White, who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine ...

Daniel White

Settled Here in 1818

Daniel White, native of North Carolina, purchased land here in 1818, a year before Alabama became a state. His home and stagecoach stop, "Wayside Inn" was a large two~ story log house located on the North side ...

White Ash Tree

The tree was a Maryland State Champion White Ash approximately 175 years old when on July 10, 2001 a storm with tornado-like winds took off one of the major limbs and decay was discovered inside the remaining limbs.

The Maryland Department ...

The White Chapel District

The White Chapel District:

In the depression of 1893 there stood on opposite corners of Washington Street and Third Avenue, at the foot of “profanity hill,” what was referred to as the most financially solvent institution in Seattle: The ...

White Horse Tavern

1673

“America’s Oldest Tavern”

Yearly gathering place of the

members of the Colonial Legislature

Marker is at the intersection of Marlborough Street and Farewell Street, on the left when traveling east on Marlborough Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Place Where the White Horse Went Down

In 1837-38 a smallpox epidemic spread from the American Fur Trading Company steamboat St. Peter which had docked at Fort Union. The terrible disease for which the Indians had no immunity eventually affected all Montana tribes. A story is told ...

“Great White Fleet”

Historical Point of Interest

The U.S. Navy’s “Great White Fleet” arrived Seattle May 23 and departed May 27, 1908 to continue their famous 46,000 mile round the world cruise. Part of the fleet anchored in Elliot Bay near this site ...