Long Beach, California.
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Designed by architect Harvey Lochridge for Fred Markwell in 1914, but not constructred until 1919, the Jergins Building was originally named after Markwell. Built in the Beaux-Arts style, the six story structure contained a theater and offices. In 1929, the A. T. Jergins Oil Company added three floors and a penthouse, also designed by Lochridge, and renamed it the Jergins Trust Building. Despite efforts to preserve it, the Jergins Trust Building was demolished in 1988.
These historic decorative elements from the Jergins Trust Building have been preserved, repurposed, and installed through a generous grant from the Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association.
Thank you also to the following for their generous donations and support:
Willmore City Heritage Association
The City of Long Beach
Downtown Long Beach Associates
Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association
(Settlements & Settlers • Architecture) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Designed by architect Harvey Lochridge for Fred Markwell in 1914, but not constructred until 1919, the Jergins Building was originally named after Markwell. Built in the Beaux-Arts style, the six story structure contained a theater and offices. In 1929, the A. T. Jergins Oil Company added three floors and a penthouse, also designed by Lochridge, and renamed it the Jergins Trust Building. Despite efforts to preserve it, the Jergins Trust Building was demolished in 1988.These historic decorative elements from the Jergins Trust Building have been preserved, repurposed, and installed through a generous grant from the Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association.
Thank you also to the following for their generous donations and support:
Willmore City Heritage Association
The City of Long Beach
Downtown Long Beach Associates
Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association
(Settlements & Settlers • Architecture) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Near this location was a large Mingo town of significance during the Revolutionary period of the 1770's. The chief was Te-caugh-ye-te-righ-to, known to the settlers as Pluggy. The village consisted of perhaps 300 inhabitants. Among them were Delaware, Mohawk, Shawnee, Wyandot, and Mingo. Individuals known to have lived here were Mohawk Soloman, the Big Apple Tree, the Stone, Conesseway, Black Wolf, and the Snake. Here, too, lived Chief Logan for several years.
In the late days of September, 1776, negotiators William Wilson and Joseph Nicholson left Fort Pitt which is today Pittsburgh. Their goal was to convince the tribes north and west of the Ohio not to join forces with the British. For support, the negotiators were accompanied by Cornstalk and other Indians.
Tupper Memorial Baptist
A.I.A. Tower
Historical Marker
Revolutionary Cemetery
War veterans of 1776 & 1812
Originally and Indian
Burial Ground
Dedicated to all
Darke County
Viet Nam
Veterans
Aug. 5, 1964
May 7, 1975
(seal) (map)
Founded 1875. Site for church and cemetery was given on Dec. 27, 1875, by local landowners John and Elizabeth Gibbons. This tract and some later purchases were deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
The Bowling Green Fault, a geological feature unique to the Great Lakes region, passes through Farnsworth Metropark. The 100-mile-long fault, which runs from south of Findlay into southern Michigan, is exposed at the Maumee River in the bedrock and in the river rapids when the water is low. A fault, sometimes associated with earthquakes, is a fracture in a rock formation where movement has occurred.
This plaque is in commemoration of the Sesquicentennial, celebrating Independence of Texas from Mexico 150 years ago, and the Golden Anniversary of the XIT Rodeo & Reunion, which had its origin in 1936 as a Reunion of men who worked on the XIT Ranch.
This is a two-sided marker
Great Texas ranch of international fame. Payment made in an 1882 contract for the construction of granite capitol building in Austin. As contractors, some out-of-state investors (headed by the wealthy Chicago merchants, John V. and Senator C.B. Farwell) built the largest state capitol in North America and received in payment 3,000,000-acres of land. The grant, 200 miles long and of varying widths (enclosed later by a 6,000-mile barbed wire fence), extended from near site of present Lubbock to the Oklahoma line 40 miles north of here. It included land in counties of Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Hockley, Lamb, Oldham, and Parmer. Trail Boss Abner Blocker delivered first herd to Buffalo Springs in 1885 and scratched the "XIT" in corral dust with boot heel to design famous brand. Although its land was parceled and sold, the XIT lives in Texas memories -especially here, 32 miles south of its Buffalo Springs headquarters. Dalhart holds an annual XIT reunion with rodeo and parade featuring a horse with an empty saddle, in honor of range riders of the past. Permanent tribute to XIT cowboys is this "empty saddle" monument, designed by western artist Bobby Dycke, dedicated in 1940.
Chronicler of a unique era in the history of the Southwest. Born in Belton, Mo. At 17, taught school in Indian Territory (Okla.) In 1907, she married Robert L. Duke, a ranch hand who had risen to division manager of the XIT Ranch (then world's largest). In addition to her own family, she "looked after" the 150 cowboys who worked the 3,000,000-acre spread. Kept a diary of everyday events in ranch life around her and successfully encouraged 81 others to do likewise. Thus was preserved an authentic account of a passing phase of American life -- the cowboy and his work.
Formed from Young and Bexar
