The Beginning of Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service

One of the nation's earliest cooperative

extension offices was established in 1910

in Schellsburg, Bedford County, with A.B.

Ross as county agent. The innovative

program sought to educate farmers about

agricultural science to increase their

productivity. County extension offices are

now found throughout the U.S. Farmers and

other ...

Barry Scobee Mountain

1 Mi. North 6300 Ft. Elev.

Camp grounds and lookout post (1850's-1880's) for military, mail coaches, freighters, travelers, emigrants. Site of area's last Indian raid, 1881. Part of John G. Prude Ranch.

Named by Gov. John Connally Dec. 21, 1964, to honor ...

Enlisted Barracks

Four enlisted barracks were hastily assembled during the winter of 1867-1868. They faced the parade ground on three sides. Each barrack held a company of 60 to 100 men and consisted of two squad rooms, a room for the first ...

Pimmit Run and Chain Bridge

Pimmit Run is a stream that runs from the Pimmit Hills neighborhood in Falls Church and joins the Potomac River immediately south of Chain Bridge. The mouth of Pimmit Run provided Native Americans and settlers access to fresh water and ...

The West Street Building

90 West Street

Completed in 1907, the West Street Building was designed by architect Cass Gilbert as a premier office skyscraper for the shipping and railroad industries. The building combines the classical tripartite configuration of base, shaft and capital, common ...

Cast Iron Whipple Truss Bridge, 1869

This bridge was designed and built by Squire Whipple (1804-1887), a Union college graduate, class of 1830. Originally erected over the Erie Canal at Fultonville in Montgomery County, the bridge was moved after the canal closed in 1917 to the ...

Abbott Baptist Church

Organized in 1876 as the Liberty Grove Baptist Church by 13 founding members, this congregation met in the Liberty Grove Schoolhouse 2 miles south of here. Renamed the Abbott Baptist Church in 1879, the church moved to Abbott in 1885. ...

Little Texas Tabernacle and Campground

The "Little Texas" Methodist Tabernacle and Campground site of Camp meetings since the 1850's. The Tabernacle-a place of worship-was built by black and white settlers of the area.

The original structure was made of hand-hewn timbers, wooden pegs, handsplit shingles ...

Fairbanks Home

Built in 1885 by George Rainsford Fairbanks, lawyer, historian, and editor. Born in 1820 at Watertown, New York, Fairbanks moved to Florida in 1842 and became a major in the Confederate Army.

He edited the Fernandina Florida Mirror, presided over ...

Urban Center Historic District

Encompasses a 13 ~ block area

comprised of over 100

significant structures.

Meridian was state's largest

urban area at the turn

of the 20th century.

Listed in the National Register

of Historic Places.

Marker is on 25th Avenue near 6th Street, ...