Sarasota, Florida.
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(side 1) Jackson and Katherine Bispham started a dairy in 1922 north of Sarasota with Sarasota County Dairy Permit No. 2. Later that year Bispham moved his operation to the area of present South Tamiami Trail and Fiesta . . .
(Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
(side 1) Jackson and Katherine Bispham started a dairy in 1922 north of Sarasota with Sarasota County Dairy Permit No. 2. Later that year Bispham moved his operation to the area of present South Tamiami Trail and Fiesta . . . (Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
(side 1) On January 12, 1929, Sarasota dedicated its first municipal airport located on 160 acres jsut west of Oriente Avenue, now Beneva Road, and north of Fruitville Rd. Pilots performed aerial maneuvers and stunts for the . . . 
By 1884 Mary Jane Godwin had applied for a Homestead Patent for 160 acres of land along present day S.R. 54. She received a two-acre parcel of this land on January 27, 1890, one acre for the cemetery and one acre for the . . . 
(side 1) The English Colony A group of Englishmen known locally as the English Colony immigrated to Conway in the 1880s. They came as a result of a land and citrus industry promotion by the state and railroad corporations . . . 
(side 1) Citrus Industry and Red Hill Groves Cattle ranches and turpentine stills filled the Conway landscape in the late nineteenth century, but it was the citrus industry that would predominate in most of the twentieth . . . 
(side 1) Conway First Baptist Church The Conway First Baptist Church was organized in 1910 and first housed in a clubhouse on Arnold Avenue and Anderson Road. In February 1911, the clubhouse and lot were sold or exchanged . . . 
(side 1) St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church was built on land donated by Mary Walker in 1915. It was a small frame building with a steeple to the side of the main entrance The small . . . 
During the Revolution this vital crossing was located here. Used by French and American armies on march to Yorktown in 1781.
Dedicated to the soldiers of the Continental and French armies who crossed the Hudson River here at King’s Ferry August 20-26, 1782 on their march to Victory at Yorktown, Va. May their sacrifices and hardships never be . . . 
The Hudson River and its key crossing site between Verplanck’s Point and Stony Point were important and strategic locations for General George Washington and the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Defending the . . . 
In 1781, the American and French allies combined their armies at a pivotal turning point in the Revolutionary War. Under the command of General George Washington and French General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de . . . 
“You will be pleased on the receipt of this, to order One hundred and fifty Men to bring thirty of the aforesaid Boats to Kings Ferry . . . ” Washington to Alexander McDougall, August 18, 1781 In August 1781, the Continental . . . 
"For God and Country we associate ourselves together" To Honor Veterans of All Wars
Frackville American Legion gratefully dedicates this monument to honor all the men and women who faithfully and proudly serve our country sacrificing all to protect our country's freedom Our Auxiliary will always support . . . 
Before you stretches the Hudson River. It may be placid at the moment or it may be wind-whipped, it may sparkle like diamonds on a languid summer afternoon, or it may be chocked in the twisted torments of winter’s . . . 
Named for Abraham Wells Founded 1737
First Library in the Genesee Country. Northfield Library Co., 1803-1808, kept its books at the farm of Ezra Patterson, first librarian. 
In honor of all those from Wellsville & Warrington Township who served in the Armed Forces 1776 - 1976 "They also serve, who only stand and wait"
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What you see below you in Travis Cove is the foundation of the River Water Intake Shed and the remains of a water pipe that were used by the Fleischmann Distillery in the early 1900s. Water from the Hudson River flowed . . . 
