Ohio, Mahoning County, Poland
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Built in 1858
Originally Poland Center School
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Built in 1858Originally Poland Center School
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
was built there was no circular road on this hill top. The original road from Williamstown, Mass. came through Pownal, Vt. to Bennington, and continued straight through the village, over this hill north towards Shaftsbury.
Near this spot in 1761
The Catamount Tavern, which was built in 1767, was originally named the Green Mountain Tavern. The Council of Safety and the “Green Mountain Boys” met here from 1767 to 1775. On May 9, 1775, Ethan Allen and 270 men, 40 whom were “Green Mountain Boys”, captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
In 1892 offered America's first collegiate instruction in ice cream manufacture. A program that has helped to make Penn State an international center for research in frozen confections. The original Creamery Bldg (1889) housed the nation's earliest extension courses in dairy science. The creamery moved to Patterson Bldg (1904), Borland Lab (1932, expanded 1960), and the Food Science Bldg (2006) where it was renamed the Berkey Creamery in recognition of philanthropic support.
Welcome to Centre Furnace Mansion - birthplace of Penn State University and home of Centre County Historical Society.
In Honor of the Men
In Lasting Tribute To Those 
Near here settled pioneer Quakers, including the Aaron Stanton Family. In 1836 William Bond agreed to convey the Society of Friends three acres of land for a meeting house lot and burial ground. Bond died in 1837 and in 1841 the La Porte Circuit Court so ordered. Some 400 persons are said to have been buried, many with only a field stone marker.
Joshua H. Gates arrived at Diamond Lake in 1857 where he claimed land in Sections 17 and 20 of Harrison Township. Gates may have been the first farmer in what is now Kandiyohi County. This is the site of the Joshua and Lucinda Gates family homestead. Born in Scholiarie, New York on August 4, 1824 where he studied to become a teacher. Gates married Lucinda Saper in 1846 in New York and had six children. Gates organized, built and taught his own school for the children of the Diamond Lake settlement, as early as 1859. He taught 20 terms and served as superintendent in both Monongalia County and later in Kandiyohi County. He served as county commissioner and the first county auditor.
This marker is placed at the encampment site of regiments of the Commonwealth of Virginia to commemorate the officers and men of Virginia which area, at that time, encompassed what is now the state of West Virginia. These Virginians were wintered here in 1777-1778 as a part of General George Washington's army in the War for American Independence.
Americans of the Revolutionary era looked to ancient Rome and Greece as models of republican ideals. This statue, a bronze copy of die original marble which has stood in the rotunda of the Virginia State capitol since 1796, includes both classical and also American symbols that would have been familiar to Americans of die time. George Washington is depicted as a modern Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general who left his farm to save the Roman Republic, and then voluntarily returned to his plow.
To study his subject, French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon traveled to America and stayed at Mount Vernon for two weeks, taking detailed measurements of Washington and casting this life mask. Washington’s family believed that the final statue was the most realistic depiction ever made of him.
