Kaufmann Building

1854

Two story brick with cast iron front. Early use as grocery & provision store. Also housed bakery & confectionery, ice cream parlor, meat market & garage.

Marker is on Main Street near Short Street, on the left when traveling south.

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Mitchell Building

1844

Property first deeded to T.W. Mitchell by town of Weston for $13.49. Early day uses were shoe shop, law & dental offices. Rebuilt as medical building in 1939.

Marker is on Thomas Street near Main Street, on the left when traveling ...

Armstrong College Building

Walter H. Ratcliff, Architect

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1994

“To Inculcate the Highest Standards and Ideals in Business.”

That lofty aim, incised high on the façade of this graceful Spanish Colonial building, guided Armstrong College for more than 70 years. Known in ...

In This Building From 1992 - 1999

A group of talented people created a television legend.

Homicide

Life on the Street

Marker is on Thames Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Doppler Building

1856

Two story brick store house, home of dry goods, grocery, & Quinley paint store. Well preserved ornamental tin ceiling.

Marker is on Main Street near Thomas Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Buzzard Rock Native American Settlement

The archaeological sites on the extensive floodplain nearby represent at least ten thousand years of periodic use by Native Americans. The artifacts and evidence from one site suggests that separate villages were occupied there some six hundred to one thousand ...

Edward A. Brakenridge House

Ira A. Boynton Designer & Builder (attributed), 1892

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1992

Arriving in Berkeley from Massachusetts, Edward Brakenridge bought property that extended to Rose Street for this large Queen Anne-style residence, a stable, and a carriage house. Ira Boynton, ...

Yocum-Benner Buildings

1860

Two story brick, original ornamental tin ceilings - storefront chaned in 1890's. Housed early saloons, cafes, also Chevrolet & Ford agencies in the 1930's.

Marker is on Main Street near Market Street, on the right when traveling south.

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The Civic Club of Harrisburg

This building, one of only two to survive on the west side of Front Street and ensconced within the idyllic setting of Riverfront Park, was erected between 1901 and 1903 by William Reynolds Fleming as a single family home which ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

Four Years of War, Ten Months of Siege

It was March 1865. The Civil War had raged across battlefields from New Mexico to Pennsylvania for four desperate years. More than three million men had fought and more than 600,000 men had ...