Ontario, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Maxville
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An internationally renowned financier, Peacock was born near here in the former Congregational Church manse and educated at Queen's University in Kingston. He taught at Upper Canada College for seven years before joining the Dominion Securities Corporation, a prominent investment company, in 1902. Five years later he was transferred to London, England to manage the firm's European office. Acclaimed for his exceptional financial abilities, Peacock played an increasingly important role in the international securities market and in industrial organization and reconstruction as a director of the Bank of England (1921-24, 1929-46), the head of Baring Brothers and Company (1929-54) and a director of the Commonwealth Development Finance Company (1953-59). He also became a trusted adviser to the Royal Family and was knighted for his services in 1934.
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An internationally renowned financier, Peacock was born near here in the former Congregational Church manse and educated at Queen's University in Kingston. He taught at Upper Canada College for seven years before joining the Dominion Securities Corporation, a prominent investment company, in 1902. Five years later he was transferred to London, England to manage the firm's European office. Acclaimed for his exceptional financial abilities, Peacock played an increasingly important role in the international securities market and in industrial organization and reconstruction as a director of the Bank of England (1921-24, 1929-46), the head of Baring Brothers and Company (1929-54) and a director of the Commonwealth Development Finance Company (1953-59). He also became a trusted adviser to the Royal Family and was knighted for his services in 1934.
(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The history of the earth is written in rocks.
In Ohio, nearly 500 million years of time are
recorded in our bedrocks, reflecting the coming
of the inland seas, the upheaval of the mountain ranges
and the birth and death of great swamps. By
reading these rocks, geologists can piece
together our ancient history. No matter where
you walk, geology in some form awaits discovery.
In this park, though, it’s influence and impact is
obvious. 
Since 1952 bridges near this site have served as the gateway to western Nevada County. This 1924 span was the first concrete bridge at this site and features a Roman style single arch design, constructed in a continuous pour method.
The Colfax Highway Association led a citizens group that saved the bridge from the wrecker's ball in 1986, and placed this monument in 1992.
Don Gaspor Portola
This memorial is dedicated to those who lost their lives in the wreck of the Pacific Mail Steamer, Brother Jonathan, at point St. George's Reef, July 30, 1865.
The building and artifacts on this site are significant remnants of the history of Saddleback Valley. They serve as reminders that the efforts and accomplishments of those who lived here before us, are the basis of our communities today.
A camp established in this area in 1850 was called Eureka; then later, Eureka So. By 1856 it sometimes had a winter population of 1000. Rich placer mining deposits were played out by 1865, but quartz mining continued. By 1887, total gold taken from this area was estimated at 20 million dollars. Area also important as distribution point for water from reservoirs, fed to hydraulic mines below by ditches. Name changed to Graniteville when post office was established on Aug. 26, 1867.
Directly south of this point and across the valley floor are the remains of a short-lived extraction plant, which reached the peak of its productive capacity in the early twenties. Driving of the main shaft began in 1916. Of several tries at extracting oil from shale, this was the only successful operation in Nevada.
J.J. Elliott had his assay office in the building which was built in 1879. Often during the boom days of the 1880's dozens of ore wagons were parked on Miner Street in front of the "Exchange". Elliott promoted himself in the city directories of the period as "an assayer and bullion buyer". He was also president and manager of the Idaho Springs Electric Company and had the difficult job of convincing the citizens of Idaho Springs that electricity wasn't just a passing fad and that it was safe.
Baseball was a popular past time in Wilsonville during an era community baseball that ran around 1910 to 1930. The highlight was 1914, the year the Wilsonville Athletic Club won the state Championship.
With the vision of universal
Gould-Shaw House
Thomas Jefferson Gould, an Indiana born blacksmith, built this house, which has become an important part of the town’s history, in 1862. One of the few surviving examples of Gothic Revival architecture, the house is the oldest documented dwelling in Cloverdale. Isaac Ellis Shaw bought the house from Gould in 1875 and lived there with his wife and two children. Following his wife’s death Shaw remarried, moved his new wife Minerva, into the house and had another two children. Shaw died in 1905 and his wife lived here until her death in 1938. The house was purchased by the Cloverdale Historical Society in 1983 and underwent major renovations and retrofitting in the late 1990’s.
The Ordinance Line located here was intended to form northern borders of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, but these resp. borders were shifted northward at statehood. Called “Indian Boundary Line” in Indiana, it formed here borders between four Native American treaties (two in La Porte County), prior to tribes’ removal by 1838.
Built in 1900 and given to the Yazoo Library Association by Mrs. Ricks in memory of her husband, this example of Beaux Arts Classicism and continues to serve Yazoo City and County as a public library.
This home was built in stages 1866-1910 by John and Mary Oakes, free blacks who had moved to Yazoo City by the 1850s, and by their first son, Augustus J. Oakes, an educator and builder, who had established the Oakes Lumber Yard by 1900. The Oakes House was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
