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Homewood

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Maitland

Construction of Homewood was begun in 1800 by Dr. Solomon Jones, a prominent Loyalist, local officeholder and early resident of this region. With its balanced five-bay façade, centre hallway plan and classical detailing, it reflects the influence of British Palladianism, while its fieldstone construction and deeply pitched roof echo the Québec traditions of its builder, the Montréal Mason Louis Brillière. In spite of several additions, Homewood retains much of its original character and vividly reflects the way of life of a rural professional man in the early 19th century.

(Notable Buildings • Man-Made Features • Architecture) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dumbrille's Store

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Maitland

Built as a house in the 1850s, this sturdy stone building was altered in 1877 by John Dumbrille, when he relocated his general store from across the street in front of his residence "Sprucelawn". In 1879 he was appointed Maitland's postmaster and that office was moved here as well. Four generations of the Dumbrille family remained as shopkeepers and postmasters in this building until 1969 when a new post office was built elsewhere.

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

Fenimore Chatterton

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Wyoming, Carbon County, near Sinclair
At age 18, Fenimore Chatterton arrived in Wyoming on September 12, 1878 to begin a lifelong career of service to Wyoming.
The young Fenimore came west on the Union Pacific to Fort Steele for a bookkeeping job at the J.W, Hugus Trading Post. His first job was to unload a railroad car loaded with coal into wagons with a shovel. He continued on making sales to the local cowboys, prospectors, and patrons who would travel hundreds of miles with furs, hides, and ranch products to barter for canned tomatoes, dried apples, kerosene, chewing tobacco and whiskey available only at stores like Hugus located near the rails across the southern part of Wyoming's five counties. In five years he would buy the business and in another three have it paid for. Over the years Fort Steele would close, and Fenimore would survey in other towns, he would look at business options in California and Utah, and always come back to Wyoming. He worked with the railroad to create a line to Denver from Fort Steele. The line failed but he surveyed in, and named the town of Saratoga after the health spas in New York. In 1891 he was admitted to Wyoming's Bar, earned a 4 year law degree in one year from Michigan and from there the Republicans recruited for Treasurer and Probate Judge for Carbon County. During a short election campaign he collected nearly $200,000 of delinquent taxes, won the election, and began his political career.
In 1898 he became Secretary of State when DeForest Richards was Governor, and in April 1903 became Governor with Richards death. He was a strong state rights advocate, fought the Forest Service for the small rancher and helped in the establishment of rail and irrigation services in Fremont County and Riverton. His failure to curry special interests and corporations lost him his second term. He and his wife Stella retired to Arvada, CO. He died at the age of 97 in 1957, and is buried in Cheyenne.

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

The Founding of Maitland

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Maitland

In this vicinity, the site of a shipyard used during both the late French and early British periods, a village plot was laid out in 1824 for Jehiel and Ziba Phillips. Adjacent to it George Longley, a recent English emigrant, acquired an estate on which St. James Anglican Church was built in 1826. Longley constructed the nearby stone windmill, opened a store and in 1828 became Maitland's first postmaster. The community, named after Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada 1818-28, was a point of access to the Rideau area and flourished during the building of the Rideau Canal 1826-32. Other local industries were soon established and by 1850 Maitland had 200 residents.

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

Dorothy Martha Dumbrille

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Maitland

Described as a writer "having a mission", this novelist, poet and historian authored ten books. Born in Crysler, she was the daughter of an Anglican priest, The Venerable Archdeacon Rupert J. Dumbrille and his wife. She lived in many Eastern Ontario communities, including Alexandria, where her husband James T. Smith was high school principal. During World War II she wrote and published several patriotic poems followed by a novel 'All This Difference' which addressed the tensions between the French Canadian inhabitants and the descendents of early Scots living in Glengarry County. This house, her ancestral home, was the setting of a subsequent novel, 'Deep Doorways', first published in 1947.

(Notable Persons • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lieut.-Col. Thain Wendell MacDowell, V.C., D.S.O.

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Maitland

Born in Lachute, Québec, MacDowell moved to Maitland in 1897. He attended local schools and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1915. During World War I, he enlisted, on January 9, 1915, in the 38th Battalion, C.E.F. On April 9, 1917, during the battle of Vimy Ridge, assisted by two runners, he captured two machine guns, two officers and seventy-five men. With the vision of the enemy obscured by a turn in a passage in their dug-out, he was able to convince them that he commanded a vastly superior force. His action eliminated a serious obstacle to the gaining of his battalion's objective, and he was awarded the British Empire's highest decoration for valor, the Victoria Cross.

(Notable Persons • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

WWI Soldier

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Missouri, Saline County, Marshall
To keep forever in remembrance the valor and patriotism of those who gave their lives and their service to the defense of our country in the great world war.
1914 - 1918
Saline honors and commemorates her heroes.
MCMXXVII

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. James's Masonic Lodge No. 74

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Maitland

In a building on property contiguous to this site, St. James Lodge No. 74 (originally No. 40) was founded 9 February 1857. The Christian Order of Masonry, then known as the Sovereign Grand Conclave of England and Wales was instituted here 6 March 1872. Formation of the Royal Arch Masons of Upper Canada was initiated here 4 August 1875. The first recorded minutes of the St. Lawrence District Past Masters, Masters and Wardens Association were written here 20 July 1893. From its founding until it moved in 1895 to a new building in Elizabethtown Township, there were in operation from this lodge no less than 39 masonic bodies. The building was razed in 1939.

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St. James Church 1826

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Maitland

Among Augusta Township's earliest settlers were a number of Anglican Loyalists who, by 1785, we're holding services in private houses. The first resident missionary, the Reverend John Bethune, was appointed to this area in 1814. Reverend Robert Blakey served the parish from 1821 until his death in 1858, and during his incumbency construction of St. James Church was begun in 1826. A pleasing example of early Gothic Revival architecture, this structure was built by John Shephard, a local mason, on land donated by a parishioner, George Longely. It was consecrated in 1830 by the Rt Rev. Charles James Stewart, Bishop of Québec, and it remains largely unaltered from its original design.

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Gratiot County

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Michigan, Gratiot County, Itahaca
This county was named for Gen. Charles Gratiot, builder of Fort Gratiot at Port Huron in 1814. A few Chippewas and other Indians lived in the area in 1831 when the county was laid out. A Lutheran Indian mission was set up in 1846 near what is now St. Louis. Settling of the county began in the same year. In 1856 the county government was organized, Ithaca being selected as county seat. Agriculture and industry combine to give Gratiot County a stable economy.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War of 1812-1814

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Gananoque

During the war of 1812, Gananoque was a strategic point along the St. Lawrence River corridor. All supplies heading west to support British and Canadian forces had to pass through this channel.
On September 21, 1812, a company of U.S. army rifleman under the command of Captain Benjamin Forsyth, attacked Gananoque. Their objectives were to take prisoners, including Colonel Joel Stone, commander of the 2nd Regiment of Leeds Militia, capture military stores and interrupt the British supply route.
In response to the raid, a blockhouse and naval station were constructed to protect the bateau and gunboat convoys.
Hostilities continued on both sides of the border throughout the war. Canada was successfully defended by British regulars, the Royal Navy, warriors of the First Nations and English and French-speaking militia.
On December 24, 1814 the Treaty of Ghent ended the war and Canada survived to become a free and independent country.

(War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Fred Steel State Historic Site

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Wyoming, Carbon County, near Sinclair
Fort Fred Steele was established in 1868 to protect the North Platte River railroad crossing and the crews builting the Transcontinental Railroad. Named after Civil War hero Major Frederick Steele, the Fort and its soldiers provided vital services to local frontier settlements. These duties included law enforcement, pursuit of rustlers, control of labor unrest, and protective escorts of stagecoaches, mail carriers, and survey teams.
When the Fort was abandoned in 1886, a sparse population of civilians remained and established the community of Fort Steele. Over the next half century, the town became the focal point for a number of activities including wool production, timber milling, and ice cutting operations.

(Forts, Castles) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Early Construction

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Wyoming, Carbon County, near Sinclair
The Post Trader's House was "T" shaped in three sections. The stem of the "T" was built first and over time other rooms were added to the house. The small fireplace was actually designed to burn coal. Many houses of this time period included coal chutes that allowed for easy transfer of coal from wagons into a storage bin located within the home.

Support Walls
During the construction processes, lime-grout was poured around wooden 'nailers' - seen just above the floor height - to attach the base moulding. No support beams or rods were used to strengthen the lime-grout walls.

Adding Rooms
At one time the wall on the right was an exterior wall. When the room you are standing in was added to the house, builders gouged the exterior wall to receive plaster. Exterior windows were removed and replace with doors during the addition of the room.

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

Wyalusing Path

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Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, Beech Glen
An Indian path from Wyalusing on the North Branch of the Susquehanna, ran down Muncy Creek to the West Branch. Christian Indians, led by the Moravian Bishop Ettwien, came west over this path in 1772 to found a "City of Peace" on the Beaver River.

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hotel Eagles Mere

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Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, Muncy Valley
On this site stood the hotel Eagles Mere-built in 1879-known as Point Breeze Hotel from 1880-1887 when it was enlarged to house 250 guests by owner Ernest V. Ingram. Original section demolished in 1973, and remaining building moved opposite Presbyterian Church and renamed the Edgemere.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Eagles Mere Chautauqua

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Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, Muncy Valley
Eagles Mere Chautauqua was founded by Benjamin Welch and his brother Reverend Joseph Welch. Opening ceremonies took place on August 4, 1896, with Penn. Governor General James Beaver as quest speaker. The original site of the bell was Forest Inn Park. Bell donated by Mrs. Hazel Thoroughgood.

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Merritt Field Airport

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Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, Muncy Valley
Begun, 1999-First Landing 2001-Named for Merritt J. Jenkins-Son of George Merritt Jenkins, builder. Dedicated to all the old planes still flying that this facility makers possible.

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Celestia

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Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, Laporte
Peter E. Armstrong founded a religious community here in 1850. He envisioned his followers as "wilderness exiles" in a "City of Heaven" on this mountaintop. In 1864 the land was deeded to Almighty God "and to His heirs in Jesus Messiah." Because of the "owner's" nonpayment of taxes, the county sold the land in 1876 to A.T. Armstrong, Peter's son. Peter Armstrong himself struggled to continue this community before he died in 1887.

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

Sullivan County

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Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, Laporte
Formed March 15, 1847 from Lycoming County. Named for State Senator Charles C. Sullivan, who was active in securing its creation. Laporte, the county seat, was incorporated 1853. County is home of Eagles Mere (long a noted resort) and Worlds End State Park.

(Settlements & Settlers • Politics) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Colonel Joel Stone

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Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Gananoque

Born in Connecticut, Stone forfeited his home and property there when he fled to New York to serve with the Loyalist militia during the American Revolution. He came to Canada in 1786, settled with his family in New Johnstown (now Cornwall) and was eventually granted 700 acres of land on the west bank of the Gananoque River. Here, he established mercantile operations, including a sawmill and a ferry service to cross the river. Stone was appointed Justice of the Peace for Leeds County in 1796, Collector of Customs for Gananoque in 1802, and later, a Surveyor of Highways and Roads. In 1809, he was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Leeds Militia and was in command when American forces raided the village in September 1812. The settlement established by Stone formed the nucleus of the present town of Gananoque.

(Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812 • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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