Abbott Schools

The public school system in Abbott began in 1885 when a one-story frame schoolhouse was constructed on the east side of town. It housed 140 pupils and three teachers. A two-story brick structure, built at this site in 1911, served ...

Abbott United Methodist Church

The first Methodist worship service in Abbott was held in 1883 by the Rev. G. W. Swofford. A congregation soon was organized and became a regular stop on the Hillsboro circuit, with the Rev. J. P. Mussett as first pastor. ...

Abbott House

Jo Abbott and his wife, Rowena Sturgis Abbott, bought this property in 1883 and later built the house next door (west). Abbott was a county and district judge, congressman, and local banker. In 1899 this house (originally a T-plan) was ...

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. ...

Abbott

In 1881, on land owned by G.M. Dodge, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (Katy) Railroad built a line through a new town named for Joseph Abbott, a Hill County resident, lawyer and U.S. Congressman. Winston W. Treadwell soon opened a ...

Alexander Abbott House

C. 1830

Dr. Abbott (1812 – 1884)

Major textile and paper

manufacturer as well as

dedicated citizen

Marker is on Kinderhook Street (U.S. 9), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm

Abbott Farm is the largest known Middle Woodland (ca. 500 B.C.-500 A.D.) village site in the coastal Mid-Atlantic/New England region.

This property became the focal point of a famous 40-year controversy about the antiquity of human ...

Abbott Row

Abbot Row is significant as an excellent preserved example of a Queen Anne Style row house block in Milwaukee. Among the other row house blocks that remain in Milwaukee, only a few can compare with Abbot Row in the excellence ...

Abbott's Mill

The origin of Abbott’s Mill can be traced to the fall of 1795 when local carpenter Nathan Willey entered into a contract to purchase land at this location. On April 23, 1802, Willey and several of his neighbors presented a ...

Abbott Lake

Stanley William Abbott

The first resident landscape architect and planner of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was his vision, imagination, and creative talents in the Parkway's formative stages that made the Blue Ridge Parkway unique.

Marker can be reached from Blue Ridge ...