Significant Dates in Fayetteville History

Significant dates in Fayetteville history include: Incorporated town in 1836; Old Wire road from Jefferson City, Mo. to Ft. Smith cut in 1835; Washington County Fair first held on the Square in 1856; first telegraph installed around 1860; Butterfield Stage ...

Ozment General Store and Post Office 1908(c)

Costa Mesa Historical Site

Costa Mesa

Ozment

General Store

& Post Office

1908(c)

Marker is on Newport Boulevard, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fayetteville's Earliest Methodist Church

Fayettevilles’ earliest

Methodist Church

Stood on this site

1840 – 1899

The Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville was organized in 1832. The modest frame building of 1840, destroyed by fire during the Civil War, was replaced by a brick structure in 1868 as the ...

Site of the S.R. Bowen Buildings

1920-1989

Three industrial buildings were located at 1980 Lake Street and were operated by Samuel R. Bowen and his partner, Sisti Siracusa, as the S.R. Bowen Company and the Bowen Fishing Tool Company. The S.R. Bowen Company was founded in 1920 ...

Sacred Heart Catholic Church Bell

Cornlea, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Cast by Stuckstede & Bro.

St. Louis, Mo

1908

A.D. MCMY-111 - Pius - Pro

[Probably MCMVIII for 1908]

Ecclesia S.S. Cordis

Cornlea, Nebr.

Weight: 1,000 lbs.

The dedication of the Sacred Heart Church, Cornlea, Nebraska was November 4, 1908. The church bell was ...

United Methodist Church Bell

Surprise, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Buckeye Bell Foundry

1898

Weight: 550lbs.

The first record of Methodist religious work in the Surprise area dates back to 1871 when C. W. Comstock was pastor of the Seward Circuit. This charge consisted of the north half of ...

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Bell

Inscribed on the Bell:

Buckeye Bell Foundry

1912

The E. W. VanDuzen Co.

Cincinnati

Weight: 710 lbs.

The church building was built by the Congregational Society in 1866-1867. It was located on 22nd Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in Columbus. The building was constructed from ...

St. Bernard Catholic Church Bell

St. Bernard Township, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Meneely & Kimberly,

Founders,

Troy, N.Y.

1878

Weight: 710 lbs.

About 1873-1874 a few Catholic families began to settle in the vicinity of the present St. Bernard. Thus, we find John Dieter, John Melcher, Mathias Classen, Joseph Steibly, and ...

Freedom Hill Redoubt

Late-War Protection

Small batteries called redoubts were constructed during the Civil War as part of the outer defensive lines that encircled Washington, D.C. Late in the war, the one in front of you was built here on Freedom Hill (according to ...

San Miguel Cemetery District

On October 18, 1886 the railroad arrived at the lands of Mission San Miguel. The railroad provided transportation to take San Miguel cattle and produce to market, it also provided lumber and store goods to fuel the expanding population. The ...