San Mateo, California.
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Two plaques, one above the other
First Business Structure
Public necessity in 1964 required the demolition of the historic house referred to by the accompanying plaque; this marker is placed to perpetuate its memory and to further record that on this site stood San Mateo's first business structure, erected in 1851 by Nicholas de Peyster of New York.
Historic House
The northerly portion of this building was from 1853 "The San Mateo House," a hotel served regularly by stagecoaches, including the Butterfield Overland Mail from the East. From 1863 to 1899 it was the home of the Edward Taylor family.
(Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Two plaques, one above the other First Business Structure
Public necessity in 1964 required the demolition of the historic house referred to by the accompanying plaque; this marker is placed to perpetuate its memory and to further record that on this site stood San Mateo's first business structure, erected in 1851 by Nicholas de Peyster of New York.
Historic House
The northerly portion of this building was from 1853 "The San Mateo House," a hotel served regularly by stagecoaches, including the Butterfield Overland Mail from the East. From 1863 to 1899 it was the home of the Edward Taylor family.
(Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Daniel H. Burnham, called "Father of the City Beautiful Movement," designed Granada, originally Balboa, in 1906, using public plazas, a 640 acre park, oceanfront promenades & boulevards radiating from town center. A masterpiece of urban design. Burnham's plans for Wash. D.C., 1902; Chicago, 1909; and San Francisco, 1905, were not fully adopted. 
According to tradition burial place of Thick Neck, giant Chief of the Antones, a tribe of the Tuscaroras killed by the Oneidas.
Canal bed and towpath wound its way through the valley following the foot of the hills.
Chenango County Bicentennial '76
Childhood Home of Dr. Ruth Benedict. First Well – Known Woman Anthropologist. Author, Patterns of Culture
Gerorge E. Pataki, Governor
First settler in town of Norwich 1788; owned adjoining river flat. Lucy Power, first white native of Chenango Valley.
wo years after Borger's founding, a 1928 scholastic census counted five African American students in two families. Bethel Baptist Church, on the city's west side, hosted the first school for black children, with Mrs. Tallie Anderson Smith, who stayed for about fifteen years, hired as the first teacher for six grades. The school, still hosted by the church, moved to the north side of Borger. In 1931, in a one-room frame building at Brain and 11th Streets, the Borger ISD established its first school for black students, named Booker T. Washington School for the noted educator. In 1936 the campus included a one-teacher school and as many as fifty students.
Capt. John Harris, seaman and pioneer, bought land from Broad Street to river. First town meeting held in his home.
In 1926, even though the city of Borger had not yet been formally organized, some of the citizens petitioned the Hutchinson County Commissioners Court to incorporate an independent school system. Borger I.S.D. was officially organized on Jul. 28, 1926, serving an area of 22 square miles. While plans were being made for five brick school buildings, temporary buildings were used for the 1926 school year which numbered 19 teachers and about 1,000 students. during the first year, no city taxes were available, so the citizens and businessmen of Borger contributed to pay the teachers’ salaries.
Simon Jones' stone here was
carved by J.W Stewart 1818.
Local history suggests J.W. is
now known as Coffin Man for
carving many similar stones.
The founder of Borger, Missouri-born Asa P. ("Ace") Borger (1888-1934), established other cities in Texas and Oklahoma before he platted this townsite in 1926 and helped transform a rowdy oil town into a stable community. In 1928-29 he and his wife Elizabeth (1888-1933) built this two-story home, the first brick residence in Borger. It was later occupied by the families of their daughter and son-in-law, Helen and Fritz Thompson, and of their grandson, David W. Thompson.
Just west a large wooden aqueduct spanned creek. $2,500,000 canal linked area to Utica, Binghamton.
First society formed 1838
church erected this square
facing Exchange St. in 1846,
burned c. 1867
Borger, the oil-boom town that sprang to life here in 1926, had among its otherwise transient and rowdy early citizenry, a social and professional group of people accustomed to a more refined cultural and literary environment. Such a person was Sadie McBride, society editor for the "Borger Daily Herald" newspaper.
First Farm Bureau in the United States
Historical Marker
Home of First Bank in Deposit founded by, Charles Knapp, Esq. 1854
Texas Rangers came to Boomtown Borger in 1929, to clean out the town of corruption, bootlegging, and prostitution, Prisoners were chained together and secured to a log such as this one. This crude jail was used to hold them until their day in court or they could be escorted out of town.
Historical Marker
Village of Deposit Incorporated 1811
Originally Cookhouse Site of John Hulce's home
First permanent settler 1789
Battles at Adobe Walls near here:
