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Pioneer Women

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California, San Bernardino County, near Glen Helen
Erected in memory of the pioneer women of the San Bernardino Valley who dared to travel across the country by ox team and covered wagon to help lay the foundation for the building of this state.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oliver's Camp

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Florida, Brevard County, Titusville

This site derives its name from the Oliver family who migrated from Missouri and homesteaded this area of Turnbull Hammock in the early 1870’s. They owned large tracts of timberland and citrus groves, and the main “camp” was located on this property. In 1886, L.C. Oliver started a lumber business in Titusville, and dealt in Georgia pine lumber, shingles, and other building supplies. Oliver bought half interest in the Budge & Huckabay Hardware Store in 1888, and renamed the business Oliver & Budge Hardware & Lumber. Budge and Oliver moved to Miami in 1895 and started another hardware and lumber business. Budge bought Oliver’s half interest in the Titusville business, and in 1898 sold it to his father-in-law, Captain J. Pritchard, and it became James Pritchard and Son Hardware. In 1918 Oliver and wife Louise sold their Turnbull Hammock 40 acres to Florida Senator J.J. Parrish and wife Emma for $15,000. Parrish was one of the state’s largest citrus grove owners and businessmen during the early 1900’s. Located on this property was a 1910 Craftsman style two-story house that Parrish used as the grove caretaker’s residence. Brevard County purchased this property and it is now the location of Chain of Lakes Regional Park. A Florida Heritage Site

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Porter's Anti-Pirate Fleet

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Florida, Monroe County, Key West

An outbreak of piracy in 1822 prompted the United States to organize the West Indian Squadron, an anti-pirate fleet. Commanded by Commodore David Porter, the squadron in 1823 included 17 ships and 1,100 men based in Key West. For two years the fleet attacked many of the estimated 2,000 pirates in the Indies. In 1825, after Porter was removed from command, Commodore Lewis Warrington continued the assault. Some 79 pirates were taken by U.S. ships.

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dedicated to the Memory of Emil Billitz Sr.

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Florida, Highlands County, Sebring

Dedicated to the Memory of Emil Billitz Sr. and countless other C.C.C. enrollees who were injured, disabled or lost their lives in performance of their duty. We especially remember the 228 C.C.C. members who perished September 2, 1935 during a hurricane at three camps, Upper Keys, Florida.

(Charity & Public Work • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church

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Florida, Lake County, Fruitland Park
Founded in 1886 by a group of young English men who came to this area to plant citrus groves, this church was opened in December, 1888. Earlier services were held at a barn on nearby Lake Geneva, midway between Fruitland Park and Chetwynd, a town two miles north of here no longer in existence. Despite severe economic and population losses following the freezes of 1894-95, this church remained open, and in 1976 descendants of the founders were still active in the congregation. The lych gate, rare in Florida, was added in 1889. The edifice is an unspoiled example of "carpenter gothic" architecture. In 1975, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp Women

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Minnesota, Nicollet County, near Fairfax

In 1860, there were 39 women here at the fort. Most were the wives and daughters of officers and enlisted men. Others were governesses, servants, and cooks hired by officers. Civilian women like Wilhemina Randall, the wife of the post sutler, lived here, too.

The wives of enlisted men usually worked as domestics for officers' families. Laundering was the only "women's work" regulated by the army. Laundresses received a set payment, living quarters, one ration per day, and medical care. At Ridgely, the laundresses lived here in log houses behind the stone barracks. Each was hired to wash for an average of 19 soldiers, and worked six days a week. Laundresses were generally well paid, getting 50¢ per month per man for enlisted men's laundry and $3.00 a month for officers' laundry. In addition, they could pick up a little extra cash mending or baking, or assisting officers' wives as nurses and midwives.

"To Be a Soldier's Wife"

When the first troops arrived here in 1853 to construct Fort Ridgely, a reporter with the expedition wrote about the plight of the women. He observed:

To be a soldier in the ranks is a hard and trying fate, but to be a soldier's wife, with a family of small children set down upon this remote and lonely frontier, with nothing but canvas to shelter them from the scorching rays of the summer sun and the pelting of the pitiless storm, is vastly more trying to the poor victims, and agonizing to the better feeling of humanity.

Minnesota Historical Society
Fort Ridgely


(Forts, Castles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

60 Court Avenue

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Iowa, Madison County, Winterset


Although this building appears to be one storefront, there are actually two separate buildings, and their histories intertwine. C. W. Eastman's Big Store first occupied this double storefront where dry goods were sold.

The Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters began meeting on the second floor in the late 1800s. Oscar Lucas ran the Lucas Grocery in the west side of the building in 1918. His brother-in-law, Gus Nehring, worked for him and bought the business in 1924 renaming it Nehring Brothers.

In 1917, Warren Smith owned a shoe store in the east side of the building and Ralph Thompson worked for him. Thompson continued to work for the next owner, Van Wagner & Bishop, and soon met co-worker E. H. Woody. The two bought the business in 1922 and established the Woody-Thompson shoe store, which operated here for more than 30 years.

Harrison's 5 & 10, a large variety store, opened in both the east and the west sides of the building in 1954. It featured a toyland that was the delight of any child. From 1959-1969, dentist Jerry Larsen's office was on the second floor. Since 1985, Madison County Medical Association, owned by Dr. Kevin de Regnier, has occupied this double storefront building.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

58 Court Avenue

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Iowa, Madison County, Winterset


In 1857 a single story wood frame structure was built on this property. The building was divided into two 12' wide stores, each with its own front door. For 30 years a jewelry business, which also sold organs, clocks, silverware and spectacles, operated here.

In 1889 C.D. Bevington built a brick and mortar one-story structure on this lot. The Koser brothers had a clothing store in the building for 54 years. A second story was added in 1901. Later, it housed the Graves clothing store and gift shops. Many of the original fixtures, such as a tin ceiling, oak staircase and railings, and oak and walnut counters are still used inside the building.

1999 Sesquicentennial Project

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

56 Court Avenue

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Iowa, Madison County, Winterset


This building and the structure to the west were owned and operated by the Tidrick-Terrill Company in the late 1800s. Their furniture store occupied this building for many years. An elevator in the back of the building was shared by the company's undertaking business next door.

In 1920, Breeding Hardware started here, but by 1927 it moved to the building to the west. Arthur Goshorn then purchased the building and moved his business, The Winterset News, to this location. He stated "in its new location The News will have one of the best equipped and best arranged printing offices in the state."

Jackson Electric occupied the premises in the late 1940s. It remained here until the early 1970s, when Breeding Hardware purchased the space in order to expand its business into both buildings.

In 1998, the building was sold to Weeks Properties, Inc., which ran an Iowa Realty office here until December, 2008. Currently the building is occupied by Bridges Financial Associates, Inc.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

54 Court Avenue

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Iowa, Madison County, Winterset


Entrepreneur Edward Jones ran a general store on this property for several years in the mid-1800s. By 1871, he took on a partner, M. R. Tidrick, and then moved on to other ventures.

The Tidrick-Terrill Company owned and operated several businesses, including a furniture store, general store/grocery and undertaking business. When the Breeding family moved in upstairs around 1920 they shared their living quarters with the store owner's funeral supplies.

Breeding Hardware moved to this building's main level in 1927. In 1973, Breeding Hardware purchased this building and the one to the east and expanded their business which remained here until 1998.

Bill and Cindy Bortell opened Quilting from the Heart, a fabric and quilting supply store, in 1999. In 2003, Marianne Fons, Liz Porter and Dean Pieters purchased the building and opened Fons and Porter Quilt Supply. The building also houses the editorial offices of the nationally known Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting magazine. New Track Media currently owns the building.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Notrees

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Texas, Ector County, Notrees

Post Office established 1944 in drug store of C. J. Brown, Jr., who named it in response to U.S. Post Office Dept. request for title suitable to locality. Residents have since made history by planting shade trees. Now production hub of Permian Basin, center of gas processing industry and home of Otto’s Boys Ranch.

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hastings

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Florida, Saint Johns County, Hastings

In 1890 Thomas Horace Hastings, a cousin of Henry Flagler, founded the settlement of Hastings. He built the first house and constructed greenhouses to raise early winter vegetables for Flagler’s hotels. The post office was established in 1891. The first school was taught by Mr. Charles Dupont in 1897. Hastings received its town charter in 1909.

With the development and irrigation of the clay subsoil land in this area, a new era in Florida agriculture began in the early 1920’s. Pioneers in this effort were Messrs. U.J. White, W.H. Erwin, Frank Nix and John T. Dismukes. Modern machinery, fertilization and experiment brought potato growing into the realm of scientific farming. Early select potatoes are shipped from here every spring to markets all over the United States.

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

King's Road

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Florida, Flagler County, Palm Coast

This road was built about 1766 when Colonel James Grant was governor of British East Florida. It extended from St. Augustine to Cow Ford (Jacksonville) and north to Colerain, Ga., across the St. Marys River. Later the road was extended south along the Matanzas River. Aided in part by donations from Grant’s friends in South Carolina and Georgia, the road’s chief financial backing came from local subscribers. It became a major artery of travel.

(Colonial Era • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Milner-Rosenwald Academy

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Florida, Lake County, Mount Dora
Milner-Rosenwald Academy served African-American school children from 1926 to 1962. When fire destroyed the old school in 1922, parents and community leaders, led by Mamie Lee Gilbert (1886-1976) and Lula Butler, raised money for a new one. Seed money came from the Rosenwald Foundation, founded in 1913 by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) to build black schools in the South. Matching funds came from Rev. Duncan C. Milner (1841-1928), Mount Dora, committed foe of racial injustice. Despite the inequity of segregation, Milner-Rosenwald was a source of community pride. Its graduates were leaders, scholars, writers and contributing members of society. Many today remember favorite teachers and activities--the marching band, the glee club, the Maypole Festival, the state championship girls' basketball team. As enrollment grew, a new Milner-Rosenwald Academy was built, at 1250 Grant Ave. The old academy housed the community's first kindergarten, the East Town branch library, the youth center and, later, the Head Start program. After integration in 1970 the Milner-Rosenwald Academy was renamed Mount Dora Middle School and the name Milner-Rosenwald Academy became a cherished part of Mount Dora's history.

(African Americans • Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

South Milford World War I Monument

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Indiana, Lagrange County, South Milford

Honor Roll
Albright, Arnold • Albright, Earl • Austin, Emoral • Barber, Claude • Bell, Cecil • Bell, Charles • Bell, Kathryn - Nurse • Brainard, Milo • Bryant, Frank • Bryant, Walter • Burris, Leo • Castator, Delos • Cookerly, Archie • Cookerly, William • Crowell, Frisco • Eckhart, Lloyd • Emerick, Charles • Emerick, Warren • Faux, Earl • Goudy, William • Hart, Charles • High, Fred • ↓ Kent, Nathan • Kline, Earl • Krebs, Charles • Longnecker, Jacob • † Malone, Ray • McClughen, Burl • Menely, Floyd • Merwin, Clyde • Merwin, Homer • Merwin, Lester • Merwin, Miles • Miller, Harry • Nesbitt, James Guy • Newnam, Iris • Newnam, Russel • Newnam, Samuel • Pratt, Fred • Riel, Alfred • Seagly, Gerald • Shortley, Bud • Smith, Don • Somerville, Riley • Spice, Dale • Spice, Wilbert • Streeter, Venus • ★ Stroman, Ray • Stroman, Roy • Tomaw, Glen • Tyler, John Roy • Walter, John • Walter, Russel • Wert, Vern • Wert Wilscher • Wilkins, Leland • Wilkins, Ralph • Willits, Emory • ↓ Wilson Earl

★ Killed in Action     † Died in Service     ↓ Wounded

This monument is erected in honor of the members of South Milford High School who served their country in the World War.

This bell dedicated with the monument, cracked while ringing out the news of the signing of the armistice.

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vernon H. Krider

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Indiana, Elkhart County, Middlebury
In 1893 Vernon marched proudly off the rostrum with his high school sheepskin tucked under his arm. He was sure he was going away to school to become a physician. However, the country was in a depression, so his family could not afford to pay for his medical schooling.
     Vernon’s father agreed to give him two acres of land, and said he could have all the proceeds from growing and selling small berry plants. So Vernon began growing blackberries, dewberries and Cumberland raspberries. In 1896 he made his first sale of $25.00 for 5,000 raspberry plants.
     Vernon began buying additional land from the profits and added grapevines and other small fruits. While teaching school in the winters he kept one employee working on the land.
     In 1898 he bought 30 more acres of adjoining land and made extensive plantings of berry plants and additional grape vines. He traded his 32 acres for his father’s farmland and purchased 40 more acres in 1905.
     Fruit trees and a general line of nursery stock were added two years later when he added still another 67-acre plot. This necessitated the first nursery building in 1908, and a large addition was put on in 1916. The Krider Nurseries became incorporated in 1923, the same year that a New York Central Railroad switch was laid at the side of the nursery building and was used for unloading railroad cars of evergreens and shrubs.
     In 1925 Krider printed his first colored catalog - “Glories of the Garden”. The same year a fire destroyed the packing house, equipment and propagating stock. New buildings were constructed in 1926 and propagating stock was doubled. Two years later the corporation purchased 290 acres for a total of 405 acres.
     Krider Nurseries participated in the 1934 “Century of Progress” World’s Fair in Chicago. Krider Park in Middlebury includes many of the features of that World’s Fair exhibit. Participation in the Fair opened Krider’s to a profitable mail order business.
     By 1938 the volume of Krider Nurseries’ mail order business was such that the U.S. government upgraded the Middlebury Post Office to first class, even though the town had a population of less than 1,000.
     Krider Nurseries employed over 100 people and was the town’s largest employer by the time World War II broke out in 1944. It was that year that Krider obtained the patent for “Festival” - the thornless rose.
     In 1953, the corporation spent over $22,000 in postage to ship shrubs, trees, roses and perennials to ever state in the United States and many foreign countries, including Siam, South Africa and Chine.
     The Krider family maintained a mail order, retail and wholesale nursery business in Middlebury until the business was sold in 1988.
     The business closed in 1990 and the buildings were demolished in 1992.
     In 1993 the stockholders of Krider Nurseries donated the 2.4 acre World’s Fair Gardens to the town of Middlebury to be used as a community park.
     Vernon H. Krider, an entrepreneur with a vision, enjoyed reading and writing poetry and one of the family’s favorites was his poem “Memories.” He passed away February 3, 1955 at the age of 79.

Memories - by Vernon Krider

I recall a heap of planting
Round the places I’ve called home;
A heap of vines and roses
Planted in the best of loam

I recall the yellow roses
Grandma planted years ago
And the hard old perpetuals
Mother loved so well, you know.

The hardy teas and babies
I have added to the scene
All mingle in my memory
At this time of life to dream

I recall the morning glories
And the ivy on the wall,
The bouncing bets that live forever,
Grandma worshiped all in all.

Mother’s pinks and gay gardenias,
Hollyhocks and cannas tall,
Beds and beds of cabbage roses,
Were they fragrant, Not at all.

My fondest dreams are with the roses;
In my home they reign supreme –
Memories most enshrined with Mother,
Emblems of a power unseen.

Children also love the roses,
Love to fondle them, it seems;
Though the thorns cause pain and anguish,
Pleasure overcomes the screams.

All my life I’ve had a vision
Of a rose without a thorn -
Red in color, rich in fragrance,
And, behold, this rose is born.

A hundred bushes I have planted
Near my office in the sun;
They will be my greatest pleasure
As my course of life is run.

Not a thorn appears upon them;
Gorgeous flowers are now in bloom;
Through a freak of nature’s doing
Life has banished all its gloom.


This picture display was given in memory of the Vernon H. Krider Family by the surviving daughters, granddaughters and grandsons as a memorial tribute for the 75th anniversary of the Chicago’s World’s Fair Gardens. May, 2009

(Agriculture • Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Krider Nurseries

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Indiana, Elkhart County, Middlebury
These gardens, displayed in the 1934 Chicago “A Century of Progress” World’s Fair, gave Krider Nurseries nationwide prominence. After showcasing an immaculately designed garden as a promotion at the fair, Krider Nurseries brought parts of the exhibit back to this 2.4 acre plot of land. Closely resembling the original design, these gardens have been restored for future generations to enjoy. The display at the World’s Fair costs approximately $10,000, but the investment yielded a 250,000 name mailing list of visitors to the Fair promotion. Using this list, Krider Nurseries grew into a worldwide mail-order business.

Founded as a two acre farm in 1896 by Vernon H. Krider, the nursery grew by 1926 into a 420 acre operation headquartered across the street from these gardens. For decades, Krider Nurseries was the largest industry in Middlebury, employing over 100 people. The offices, packing house, greenhouses, and salesroom (all built in 1923) are shown in the picture above at left, along with the original entryway to the gardens where you are now standing. The picture above to the right shows the World’s Fair garden in the foreground, and some of the nursery’s growing fields.

In 1924 Clarence Wesdorp, a nurseryman born and educated in Boskoop, Holland (world center of ornamental horticulture), was hired as plant propagator and general superintendent of the nurseries. Under the direction of founder Vernon H. Krider, his son Kenneth Krider, and Clarence Wesdorp, Krider Nurseries became one of the most diversified nurseries in the country. On the nursery’s 420 acres, one-half million evergreens, shrubs, and trees, and over 100,000 hardy phlox were propagated annually. 165,000 rose bushes were contract-grown each year for Krider’s wholesale and retail sales.

Among the items offered in the Krider Nurseries’ “Glories of the Garden” catalog was “Festival”, Krider’s own patented thornless rose, which was the first of its kind in the nation and sold exclusively by Krider Nurseries.


This picture display was given in memory of Clarence Wesdorp by his wife Catherine, and children Cecilia Zubler, Karen Wesdorp, and Henri Wesdorp.
August, 1995

(Agriculture • Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

52 Court Avenue

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Iowa, Madison County, Winterset


This building is made of native limestone. Some of the businesses that have been in the building include a hardware and a tin shop, a bank, a travel agency, and an advertising circular.

During World War II, the Selective Service office was in the basement of this building.

Several businesses were on the second floor, including a dry-goods store and dental offices. The addition on the south end of this building has held a blacksmith's shop, a tin shop, and a beauty parlor.

1999 Sesquicentennial Project

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

102 West Court Avenue

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Iowa, Madison County, Winterset


This is the sole pre-Civil War commercial building that remains on the square. This building illustrates the art of the stone cutter as practiced in the 1850's and 1860's using native limestone.

Originally, this building was a tannery. Hides were soaked in the recessed area of the basement floor. The attic had a six to eight inch layer of dirt for insulation, probably to help keep the pelts cool. This dirt was removed in 1997 when the second floor was remodeled.

The building has also housed a cigar factory, a printing business, a beauty shop, the Farm Bureau, a restaurant, and an abstract office.

1999 Sesquicentennial Project

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

102 North 1st Avenue

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Iowa, Madison County, Winterset


Before the current building was erected, boots and shoes were sold in a wood frame building on this site. Later, it became a harness shop. This brick building, built by C.D. Bevington, was originally known as the Bevington Block. It initially housed the First National Bank, of which C.D. Bevington was president. Some of the later businesses on the main floor have been Gillespie's Tavern, Flatt's Clothing Store, a water softening business, and an optometrist's office.

From 1886 through the 1970's there was a barber shop in the basement accessed by an exterior stairwell on the south side of the building.

The second floor has been home to apartments, offices of dentists, attorneys, doctors, and insurance agents.

The building has never been sold, only changing ownership through wills.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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