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The First California Central Creamery

California, Humboldt County, FerndaleThis site, originally R.A. Simpson's Ferndale Mechanical Shop, and shared by A. Monroe Cider and Vinegar Company, was chosen in 1904 by Aage Jensen as the founding...

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H. P. Luckett House

Texas, Bastrop County, BastropIn 1892 the city sold the old Bastrop Academy lot to Dr. Humphrey Powell Luckett (1847-1925) and his wife, Frances "Fannie" (Haynie) (1849-1930). The couple married and...

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Reference Mark for Michigan Center of Population

Michigan, Shiawassee County, near Perry Position of this monument: Latitude: N42 48' 42.63" Longitude: W84 18' 25.41" Elevation: 885.8 ft. Established in 2003 by: Michigan Society of Professional...

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First National Bank of Bastrop

Texas, Bastrop County, BastropFirst bank in county. In early days, money for safekeeping was placed with mercantile firms. Organized as "Bank of Bastrop County," in March 1889; became a national bank...

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Primera Baptist Church

Texas, Bastrop County, BastropOn March 1, 1903, Primera Iglesia Bautista organized as the culmination of mission work carried out by Primera Iglesia Bautista of Welder. By 1907, the congregation...

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The Bastrop Advertiser

Texas, Bastrop County, BastropIn June 1852, Bastrop's Colorado Reveille newspaper ended its brief run. In December of that year, William J. Cain, a young printer from Mississippi, bought the press and...

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Ball from Big Well of Greensburg

Kansas, Kiowa County, Greensburg [Destroyed in the] F5 Tornado 2007 (Charity & Public Work • Disasters • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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Site of Bastrop Military Institute

Texas, Bastrop County, BastropA Methodist Institution · Chartered January 24, 1852 as Bastrop Academy · · Rechartered under the Auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1853 · In 1856 became...

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First Baptist Church of Bastrop

Texas, Bastrop County, BastropOn August 3, 1850, Elder G.G. Baggerly, pastor at the First Baptist Church of Austin, organized the Missionary Baptist Church of Bastrop with eleven members. On September...

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Thomas H. Mays

Texas, Bastrop County, BastropThomas H. Mays was born in 1802 in Virginia and emigrated to Texas from Tennessee in 1830. In 1834, he became Bastrop's first municipal surveyor and platted the city's new...

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Homesite of William Scott

Texas, Harris County, BaytownA native of Virginia, William Scott (1784-1837) was a planter, merchant, and stockraiser in his native state and in Kentucky, where he relocated about 1806. He and his...

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S. D. Robinett Building

Kansas, Kiowa County, Greensburg has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Respectfully restored by Gary and Erica Goodman 2009...

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Buried Treasure in the Heartland

Kansas, Kiowa County, Haviland Home of the Brenham Meteorites (Air & Space • Exploration • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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Cannonball Stage Line Highway

Kansas, Kiowa County, Greensburg Flamboyant and colorful, Donald R. "Cannonball" Green (1839-1922) ran a stage line connecting the railroad to towns across southwestern Kansas. Green started his first...

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Fromme-Birney Barn

Kansas, Kiowa County, near Mullinville has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior (Agriculture • Man-Made Features • Settlements &...

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Dodge City, a frontier legend

Kansas, Ford County, Dodge City The Santa Fe Trail was a busy overland route for fifty years before Dodge City was founded. The heavy freight wagons rumbled along where you are now standing. In 1865,...

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Wyatt Earp

Kansas, Ford County, Dodge City Buffalo Hunter Deputy Sheriff of Ford County - 1876 Assistant Marshal of Dodge City - 1877 Deputy Marshal of Dodge City - 1876-1879 (Peace • Settlements & Settlers)...

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Joshua Lawrence Meador

Mississippi, Lowndes County, ColumbusJoshua Lawrence Meador was born in 1911 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and moved here at age seven. Meador worked for Walt Disney Productions from 1936 to 1965 as head...

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Emory Overton Jackson

Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham Emory Overton Jackson was born on September 8, 1908 in Buena Vista, Georgia to Will Burt and Lovie Jones Jackson. E. O. Jackson and his seven siblings were raised...

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The Miami Circle

Florida, Miami-Dade County, MiamiOn this spot of land at the mouth of the Miami River, a historic discovery shed new light on one of Florida's early peoples - the Tequesta.During the demolition of the...

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