Eastern Market

A Lively Market for a Lively Neighborhood

Established by order of President Thomas Jefferson 1805, this building constructed 1873, designed by Adolf Cluss, additions 1907-8 by Snowden Ashford.

Eastern Market, one of three public markets proposed in L’Enfant’s Plan, was ...

Colonel William Crawford / The 1782 Sandusky Campaign

Ohio Historical Markers

[Side A] Colonel William Crawford

Colonel William Crawford, a lifelong friend of George Washington, was born in Virginia in 1722. He was married twice, first to Ann Stewart and later to Hannah Vance. In 1755, he served with Colonel ...

Colusa County Courthouse

Erected in 1861, this Federal/Classic Revival style building is the oldest remaining courthouse in the Sacramento Valley. The “Southern” style reflects the county’s heritage from the Ante-Bellum South and states-rights sympathies during the Civil War. In its early years, the ...

Dragoon Trail Crossing

Here passed the Dragoon Trail blazed in 1835 by the first U.S. Dragoons under Colonel Stephen W. Kearney.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 218 and 370th Street, on the left when traveling north on U.S. 218.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Station

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This is the site of one the forts or stations used by the United States Government in Cherokee country in 1838 to round up the Cherokee Indians for their removal to western reservations. General Winfield Scott, commander of the troops ...

Burning of Crawford

One-half mile northeast, June 11, 1782, the Indians burned Col. Wm. Crawford at the stake, in revenge for massacre of the Christian Moravian Indians by Williamson's earlier expedition.

Marker is at the intersection of Ohio Route 199 and County Route 29, ...

Lewie Chapel (Old Gilbert Methodist Church) / The Lewie Family

(Front)

Lewie Chapel, a Methodist church founded on this site in the 1870s by Solomon R. Lewie (1835-1878) and others, was later known as Lewiedale Methodist Church and after 1910 as Gilbert Methodist Church. The original sanctuary, replaced in 1960 ...

Venango Path

A major Indian path between the Forks of the Ohio (now Pittsburgh) and the Seneca town of Venango (now Franklin) passed through here. On Dec. 27, 1753, George Washington came this way with frontier scout Christopher Gist as they returned ...

Methodist Episcopal Church

1906-1916

Flagstaff's first congregation was formed by the Methodist in 1883 and they raised the first church five blocks east of here in 1887. In 1906 they moved here and constructed this Gothic style building of locally quarried red sandstone. The ...

George Edward Waddell

(1876-1914)

One of the greatest pitchers in baseball history. With the Philadelphia Athletics "Rube" Waddell led the American League in strikeouts 6 straight years, topping 20 wins in each of his first 4 years. During his career he won 193 games. ...