Pennsylvania, Chester County, Marshallton
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The Marshalton Inn
Licensed 1822
Has Been Placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By The United States
Department of the Interior
Constructed c. 1793
(Colonial Era • Notable Buildings • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The Marshalton Inn
Licensed 1822
Has Been Placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By The United States
Department of the Interior
Constructed c. 1793
(Colonial Era • Notable Buildings • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The pioneers traveling from Chicago to Toledo used this road. It was the oldest path of travel in the Central West - first used by Indians - then French traders, missionaries and the military. Established by an act of Indiana legislature in 1833, approved in 1835.
Settlement in this area began shortly after Fort Graham, a frontier military post established here in 1849, was abandoned in 1853. The first recorded burial in this cemetery, named after the fort, was that of infant Charley Botkin in 1879. The cemetery was the only one of a number of historic graveyards in this area to remain undisturbed by the creation of Lake Whitney in the early 1950s. Among the more than 300 people buried here are many of the area's early settlers and their descendants. The cemetery remains active and is maintained by an association formed in 1966.
Supple's Marsh came into being along with Lake Winnebago after retreat of a glacial ice sheet that covered this region 10,000 years ago.
The one room school built here in 1863 survived mining booms and busts, world wars and a great depression only to have social changes close its doors forever in 1949. It is with sincere gratitude that we donate this marker for opportunities provided us during those hard depression times.
Hack and Leo McInturf
In 1864 the Strang family moved to Oregon City. The institution date of the Oregon City Cemetery is unknown, the oldest grave is believed to be August 16, 1878. William H. Strang granted to the inhabitants of Oregon City and vicinity this piece of property for the use and purpose of a public cemetery, and not other wise on May 24, 1899.
Deceased directors were: Joseph Enos Stang, Anita Cole, Floyd Strang, Lemul Castle, and Marian Blake. Present Board of Directors are Roland “Bud” Strang, Rosalie Miland, Laurie Sousa, Gertrude Nisbet Bartley, and Raymond Sousa
Dedicated September 7, 2003
By the Native Sons of the Golden West, Richard S. Kimball, Grand President.
Entering California over the Applegate and Lassen trails, a party of Oregonians captained by Peter H. Burnett, arrived here in Autumn of 1848 to establish the town of Oregon City. Burnett, little more than a year later, became the first civil governor of California. Oregon City, for a time, continued to prosper as a gold mining and supply center and then declined into virtual oblivion.
This peaceful community, gateway to the remote regions of the High Lakes of Butte and Plumas Counties, owes its origin and subsequent development to the entrance of the Diamond Match Company to California. With the purchase of about 40,000 acres of virgin timber lands in the Ransey Bar – Kimshaw areas, Diamond, between the years 1901 - 1904, financed the survey and construction of the Butte County Railroad from Chico to here. It had already acquired some 1200 acres at this place, upon which to erect the most modern sawmill in California, along with the building of a town six blocks long and five wide. The later included water, electricity, graded streets, sidewalks, sewers, houses, stores, and the sawmill & pond. At the onset the hardy lumbermen lived in tents, despite the severe winters. The initial boilers to arrive were ‘Stirlings,’ hence the name. Surviving a fire in 1931 destroying most all the original buildings the struggles of fifty years, and eventual ending of Diamond’s sawmill operations here the town has retained its interesting history and maintained its identity. To those seeking the peace and beauty of the lakes and streams of our evergreen forests, Stirling City and Diamond International Corp. welcomes you. Please come back again.
Early on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved harbor pilot aboard the Planter, seized the 149-ft.
Confederate transport from a wharf just east of here. He and six enslaved crewmen took the vessel before dawn
when its captain, pilot, and engineer were ashore. Smalls guided the ship through the channel, past Fort Sumter,
and out to sea, delivering it to the Federal fleet which was blockading the harbor. 
Since 1981, millions of visitors have walked the decks of USS CASSIN YOUNG, experiencing her history and heroics. Now they have the opportunity to see a new side of this “greyhound of the sea”-what lies below the waterline.
Home train station of Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States 1901 - 1909, July 2005 Place on the National Register of Historic Places. Plaque sponsored by the Theodore Roosevelt Associaton and Oyster Bay Historical Society
