Southern Pacific, 1926 to 1945

Visions for a Two-Season Resort

In 1925, the Southern Pacific Railroad bought Tahoe Tavern and the railroad from Duane L. Bliss. They changed the narrow-gauge railroad to standard tracks and attempted to clear them of snow during the winter. Their vision ...

Great Swamp Baptist Church

(Front side):

This church, organized October 12, 1845, was the result of a clash in doctrines at nearby Sardis Baptist Church. Some in the congregation favored the

primitive Baptist movement, but others, including Rev. John N. Youmans, favored a ministry based ...

Pawling School 1907

Dr. Frederick L. Gamage

founded the school to

prepare boys for college

The name was changed

to Trinity – Pawling in 1947

Marker is on New York Route 22 0.2 miles north of Coulter Avenue, on ...

New York Public Library

The New York Public Library has been designated a Registered National historic Landmark under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 20 1935. This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States.

Marker ...

The Wea Plains

Granville cemetery was once part of the great Wea Plains and still contains many species of the original prairie vegetation. This is one of the last remnants of the Indiana prairies that covered much of Tippecanoe County. It is preserved ...

Powerful Position

On the morning of June 27, General Fitz John Porter’s men arranged their formidable defenses along the slope of Boatswain’s Creek, where you are standing. Orders directed him to resist Lee’s advance, “even to my destruction,” remembered Porter.

Around 2:30 p.m. ...

Pawling World War I and Civil War Memorial

[ West Side ]

Roll of Honor

To Honor the Pawling Men

Who Served in the World War

This Tablet is Erected By

The Inhabitants of the Town

1917 – 1919

Akin, Albert John • ...

Pawling Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to

The Memory of Those Who

Paid for Our Freedom With

Their Lives

World War II 1941 – 1945

Ira Baker • George N. Burr • John Stark Colman • Harold Davis • Walter C. ...

Pioneer Tourism, 1896 to 1926

Tourists Come to Lake Tahoe

Think about the people who made Tahoe City what it is today. They were frontiersman and adventurers, hunters and fishermen, lumberjacks and miners, school teachers, newspapermen, and ladies of the night. They ranged from Washoe Indians, ...

Peninsula Hotel

Gotham Hotel

Among the oldest of the early "Skyscraper Hotels." The Peninsula, or Gotham as it was originally known, recalls the golden age of luxury hotels. This boldly rendered Neo-Italian Renaissance tower was erected in 1902-05, at a time when Fifth ...