Nova Scotia, Annapolis County, Annapolis Royal
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English
The Sinclair Inn is an important document in the history of building in Atlantic Canada. In the 1780s, tavern-keeper Frederick Sinclair created this inn by combining two existing structures. Both were frame, and the walls of one were filled with wattle and daub, an insulation used in Acadia and New England in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Sinclair attempted to give his inn certain Georgian features of symmetry and classical detail. Restored to its present state in 1982, the building stands as a rich composite of materials, techniques and styles spanning three centuries.
French
Cette auberge est un important témoin de l’histoire de la construction dans les Maritimes. Le tavernier Frederick Sinclair la créa dans les années 1780 en combinant deux bâtiments à ossature de bois. Les murs de l’un d’eux étaient faits de colombage bousillé, selon un technique d’isolement utilisée en Acadie et en Nouvelle-Angleterre au XVIIᵉ siècle et au début du XVIIIᵉ. Sinclair s’efforça de donner à l’ensemble une certaine symétrie et des détails caractéristiques du classicisme anglais. Restauré en 1982, le bâtiment présente une riche combinaison de matériaux, de techniques et de styles issus de trois siècles.
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EnglishThe Sinclair Inn is an important document in the history of building in Atlantic Canada. In the 1780s, tavern-keeper Frederick Sinclair created this inn by combining two existing structures. Both were frame, and the walls of one were filled with wattle and daub, an insulation used in Acadia and New England in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Sinclair attempted to give his inn certain Georgian features of symmetry and classical detail. Restored to its present state in 1982, the building stands as a rich composite of materials, techniques and styles spanning three centuries.
French
Cette auberge est un important témoin de l’histoire de la construction dans les Maritimes. Le tavernier Frederick Sinclair la créa dans les années 1780 en combinant deux bâtiments à ossature de bois. Les murs de l’un d’eux étaient faits de colombage bousillé, selon un technique d’isolement utilisée en Acadie et en Nouvelle-Angleterre au XVIIᵉ siècle et au début du XVIIIᵉ. Sinclair s’efforça de donner à l’ensemble une certaine symétrie et des détails caractéristiques du classicisme anglais. Restauré en 1982, le bâtiment présente une riche combinaison de matériaux, de techniques et de styles issus de trois siècles.
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Major Erasmus James Philipps
On next lot south now merged in
1917 - World War Honor Roll - 1918 
This was the home of distinguished agricultural leader, Earl Clemmons Smith, born in Pike County February 19, 1881. In 1907, Smith began farming his grandmother Clemmons' land at this site. Smith became active in the early national farm bureau movement as farmers organized to strengthen their political clout. He was a charter member and president of the Pike County Farm Bureau. In 1928, Smith was elected president of the Illinois Agricultural Association -- Illinois Farm Bureau -- and served until 1945. Smith concurrently served as vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation from 1936 to 1945.
Scanland was mayor of Pittsfield and a prominent attorney and judge. He backed Lincoln in the 1858 Senate race and Lincoln stayed here during his visit in October 1858. One of the stories associated with this home is of Mrs. Scanland's turkey dinner. Mrs. Scanland prepared an elaborate dinner for Lincoln and her husband's political friends, but they did not return home from a local drugstore where Lincoln was telling stories for a crowd of men. The dinner was cold when they finally got there, and Mrs. Scanland called Lincoln "the laziest man there ever was. Good for nothing except to tell stories." The bed he slept in at this house is in the Pike County Historical Society Museum at East School, 400 East Jefferson Street.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, who practiced at the Pike County Bar in early days and who spoke in this park in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858; John Hay, author of Pike County Ballads, diplomatist and Secretary of State 1898 - 1905, who received his academic education here; and John G. Nicolay, private secretary to President Lincoln, who edited the Whig Free Press published here prior to the Civil War.
Built in 1823 for a trading post on the old trail between Keokuk & St. Louis. Now a pvt. residence.
Fort Finney
A company of soldiers from Fort Pitt landed at the mouth of the
great Miami, October 28, 1785, and immediately began the building
of a fort near this site. It was called “Fort Finney” in honor of Major
Walter Finney who was in command of the operation.
This historical bridge was built on this site in 1927 by the Allen County Engineers office. When opened, it carried the Delphos-Upper Sandusky Road, U.S. Route 30, commonly referred to as the Lincoln Highway, over the Ottawa River and served as an important transportation link for area residents, as well as local and regional commerce. 
Let Us Hold in Honored Memory Those Who Served Their Country in the Great War * 1917 - 1918 *
In 1872 Almon Ruggles and Germain St. John platted the village of Highland Centre beside the new railroad. They named two streets after themselves, while a third honored late Governor Henry H. Crapo. The Crapo family was active in the Flint & Pere Marquette, which had helped complete the Holly, Wayne & Monroe Railway through Highland in 1871. The village grew quickly and on January 1, 1874, the Spring Mills post office was relocated here and renamed Highland Station.
Site of the First Permanent Seat of Justice in Pike County
Mary Greene was born the daughter of a country storekeeper. When she
married Captain Gordon C. Greene, she left the land to make her life and
raise her family on the rivers of America. Captain Mary one of the few
women to become a licensed boat master and river pilot. 
In 1673 the areas of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers were explored by Frenchmen Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette. Their voyages resulted in French claims on the area until 1763 when, by the Treaty of Paris, France ceded the land to Great Britain. During the Revolution, the Illinois Territory was won for the Commonwealth of Virginia by George Rogers Clark and his army. In 1784 it became part of the Northwest Territory and on December 3, 1818 Illinois entered the Union as the twenty-first state.
On October 28, 1939, while being driven to Boston, Admiral Richard Byrd's polar exploration vehicle ran off the Lincoln Highway and crashed into Pike Run, drawing large crowds and putting Gomer in the national spotlight.
This is a two sided marker
This is a two sided marker
Born March 7, 1850
