Assembly Street

In 1786, when Columbia was established as the

State Capital, the General Assembly decided

that two principal thoroughfares should run

perpendicular to each other through the

center of town. One of these, Assembly Street,

was named for the General Assembly, which

first met in Columbia in ...

Site of John Bremond & Company

New York native John Bremond (1813-1866) built a dry goods store at this site as early as 1847. Soon, his dry goods department faced Pecan (Sixth) Street, and the grocery department faced Brazos Street. Active civically, he served as a ...

Beck House

Residence of James Burnie Beck. Born Dumfriesshire, Scot., 1822, died Washington, D.C., 1890. Law partner John C. Breckinridge. Congressman from Ky., 1867-75. U.S. Senator from Ky. 1876-90.

Marker is on High Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Campus

The Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary held its first classes in a donated building at 9th and Navasota. President T.R. Sampson, hoping to create a strong association between the seminary and the University of Texas, promoted the relocation of the campus ...

Scarbrough Building

Alabama native Emerson Monroe Scarbrough (1846-1925) came to Texas following service in the Civil War and settled in Milam County, where he was a successful merchant. He opened a branch of his business, Scarbrough and Hicks, on Congress Avenue in ...

Bernalillo

Archaeological research indicates that this fertile valley has been the focus of human occupation for at least 10,000 years. Soon after the Spanish colonized New Mexico in 1598, a series of estancias, or farming and ranching communities, flanked the Camino ...

Bernalillo

On the Camino Real

The Pueblo Indian province of Tiguex, in the area of Bernalillo, served as winter headquarters for Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540-42 during his explorations of the Southwest. Bernalillo was founded after the Spanish reconquest of ...

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

(Piscataway Baptist Church)

Founded nearby as Piscataway Baptist Church on 13 Mar. 1774, Mt. Zion Baptist Church was the first Baptist church in the region. Endeavoring to stop the spread of the Baptist movement, local authorities arrested Baptist ministers John Waller, ...

The Strawberry School

The Strawberry School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built by pioneers in 1885, this one-room cabin provided elementary instruction to students until 1916. The building represents the effort to teach the "Three Rs" in rural

Arizona ...

John B. Kiger

Sperryville Historic District

(Upper Plaque):This Property

has been placed on the

National Register

Of Historic Places

(Lower Plaque):John B. Kiger

well known wheelright

lived in this unique log and stone house

and built Conestoga wagons on this site

in the 1830s. One of his wagons is

on display at the ...