Santa Fe Trail

1821 - 1872

Marked by the

Daughters of the

American Revolution

and the

State of Missouri

1909

Independence

Marker is on Liberty Street near Lexington Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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Grave of John Lynch

Founder of Lynchburg,

who was the proprietor of lands

upon which the city is built

and for whom the city is named.

A zealous Quaker, benevolent

gentleman and promoter of

whatever advanced the general

good of his community.

Born 1740

Died October 31, 1820.

Marker can be reached from the ...

Birth Place of George Eastman

Birth Place of

George Eastman

Inventor of Kodak

Born July 12, 1854

Died in Rochester

March 14, 1932

Marker is on Stafford Avenue North (New York Route 12) 0.1 miles from Putnam Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Federal Hill

Lynchburg's first residential suburb became part of the city by annexation in 1814 and 1819. Houses within the neighborhood's nine block area represent over a hundred years of architectural styles that include Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, ...

First Fireproof Building in Independence

Main Marker308 West Maple Building

1911

First Fireproof Building in Independence

Secondary Marker

Since 1911

M. H. Siegfried & Co.

Founded by Mark H. Siegfried

1881 - 1967

Mortgages - Real Estate - Loans

Marker is on Maple Avenue near Osage Street, on the left when traveling east.

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First United Methodist Church

The earliest Society of Methodists in the county was founded in Independence in 1835 with 10 charter members. Methodists have worshipped on this corner since 1840. The present Gothic style church, completed in 1859, was refaced and added to in ...

Satterlee Field

Satterlee Field of approximately

100 acres was donated in 1949 by

Eleanor Morgan Satterlee

to the United States of America

in memory of her mother,

Louisa P. Satterlee

as part of

Acadia National Park

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First Presbyterian Church

Truman Historic Walking Tour Stop 7

The church had recently been built when the Truman family moved to Independence in 1890. Harry Truman attended Sunday School here for several years as a child with Bess Wallace.

Marker is at the ...

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

By the spring of 1780 the war for America's independence, begun five years earlier in Massachusetts, had moved south. Following decisive victories in Georgia and South Carolina, the British army under the command of Lord Cornwallis was poised to enter ...

First Presbyterian Church

The congregation dates from 1826. The church neither divided nor closed in the Civil War. Designed in 1888 by Nier, Hogg and Byram of Kansas City, Mo. Harry S. Truman first met Bess Wallace here in Sunday School in ...