Missouri, Pettis County, Sedalia
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· 1927: John Bothwell & Community Hotel Company
completed $400,000 hotel
· 1934: Harry S Truman learned he had been
selected to run for U.S. Senate
· 1942: Actress Bette Davis dined in Palm Room
· 1959: Actors Clint Eastwood & Eric Fleming
promoted TV series Rawhide
· 1962: President Truman dined in hotel café
· 1988: Westin Financial Group converted
to senior housing
· 1998: Furnell Cos. purchased and restored hotel
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This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
(Entertainment • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
On this hill stood Albany’s first public school, a wooden building, erected 1884. It was replaced, 1909, by a stone structure which was enlarged – to the west, 1923, to the east, 1927, a gymnasium was added on the north, 1928. The school and gymnasium were demolished and this building made from their stones, 1960. The south arch of this gateway, an entrance to the stone building, stands on its original site. The north arch was moved from a position sixty feet north. The arched entrances to the gymnasium were rebuilt in the walls flanking the gateway. The date stone opposite if from the addition of 1923.
In July 1938, area residents gathered here to participate in the first showing of the Fort Griffin Fandangle. Earlier that year, Albany High School drama teacher Robert Nail, Jr. wrote and directed a play depicting the settling of the Fort Griffin area. Receiving support from the local chamber of commerce, Nail created a similar show, leading to the Fandangle’s first performance.
Erected by the citizens of Drew County in honor of all who served or who may serve and dedicated to those who gave their lives that we might be free. Veterans Day 1988. 
The Howard University Gallery of Art was established in 1928 on the lower level of Rankin Chapel. Professor James V. Herring (1897-1969), founder of the University's Art Department, and professor and artist James A Porter (1905-1970) were its first directors. In 1941 the gallery moved to Founders Library. Twenty years later it moved here to Childers Hall, named for Lulu Vere Childers (1870-1946), former director of the School (now Department) of Music.
Site of first house lived in on street, 1786, by John Instone, who came here from England to build boats for General Wilkinson. Wapping Street named by Instone for one of that name in London. John B. Bibb, Lieutenant, War of 1812, represented Logan County in Kentucky House, 1827-28, Senate, 1830-34. Bought property and built present house, 1845. He developed Bibb variety of lettuce here.
Representative of the many iron furnaces in the Lehigh Valley, Lock Ridge was constructed here in 1868, operated until 1921, and was the last furnace in the US to solely use anthracite coal as fuel. By the late 19th century the Lehigh Valley was the state’s largest producer of pig iron. Among the only remnants of Pennsylvania’s anthracite iron industry, the partially restored complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Plaque #1
First meeting of the Legislature, after Frankfort made capital, held here, 1793, when owned by Andrew Holmes. Built about 1786 by General James Wilkinson. Purchased in 1797 by Major Thomas Love and wife. It was for years an inn and center of political and social life for the capital. The exiled French Prince Louis Philippe and Aaron Burr were among guests. In use until 1870.
The Potawatomi, the Algonquin-speaking tribe most closely associated with this region, were often more friendly to the French and British than to the Americans. Religious and unwarlike, they had no permanent village here as they considered Farmington a hunting ground. They often camped overnight at a stopping place near the Minnow Pond at Halsted and Fourteen Mile Road. Burial grounds have been discovered on Gill Road at Nine Mile and on Drake Road at Twelve Mile.
This peaceful area of natural beauty was donated by Arthur Power, Farmington founder, from his original holdings for use as a non-denominational cemetery. The first person to die in Farmington was a Mr. Green, the village cobbler, who was interred here in 1825. Gravestone inscriptions reveal that many Farmington pioneers are buried here. The ancient Shiawassee Indian Trail originally passed through what is now the center of the cemetery.
1790-1990
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