First Seat of Government of Randolph County

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Near here on the old Fort Gaines Road, the first Monday in August 1829, at the home of Allen and Jeanette (Roby) Wamble, was held the first Inferior Court for Randolph County which, at that time, included ...

John Frederick Hartranft

1830 - 1889

1861 - Raised 4th and 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers

1865 - Special Provost Marshall for Lincoln Conspirators

1866 - 1879 Governor of Pennsylvania, State Constitution Revised

1879 - Father of Modern National Guard of Pennsylvania

1886 - Medal of Honor for Valor at ...

Telegraph Store and Post Office

This Kimble County landmark was named for a nearby canyon from which trees were cut for telegraph poles in the mid-19th century. The store and post office were built about 1890-1900. The first commissioned postmistress was Ruth Holmes in 1900. ...

Downtown Florence Historic District

From the time Florence was established in 1818, a slow but steady growth occurred. In the late 1880s the town's population increased by 500 percent as an industrial boom began. This area became the core of the business district. Most ...

Sannoner Historic District Medical Arts Building

Built in 1826 in the Spanish Revival architectural style, this is the first structure in Florence erected with a steel skeleton supporting the floors, walls and roof. The framework is strong enough to support two more stories than were actually ...

Point of Discovery

Across the Mississippi is the mouth of the Wisconsin River. This is the point where on June 17, 1673 Pere Marquette and Louis Joliet, in two small canoes entered the mighty Mississippi. They were the first white men to discover ...

West Side Memorial Park

Dedicated to the memory of the men and women of West Side Lumber Company who served this community so faithfully over the many years. 1898-1958.

Marker is on Bay Street, on the left when traveling west.

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Southall Drugs

Charles Morton Southall (1864-1952) constructed this Commercial Italianate style building in 1900 of the finest materials for his wholesale/retail drug business. The elegant interior by Charles Hester, New York City, contained the area's first rubber tile floor.

In addition to health ...

Canal Front Dry Goods Store

Two story frame of Federal style. Built by Jonathan Banes in 1848.

First known as the firm of Jenks Banes & Calvin Jones.

Harry & Alvin Blacklidge 1852-57

Mahlon & Milton Gordon 1857-92

Wm. N. Gordon started banking business in west half ...

Tuolumne (formerly called Summersville)

Geographical center of East Belt Placer Gold Rush, 1856-57. First white settlers, the Franklin Summers family, arrived in 1854 and built log cabin half mile west. James Blakely, in 1858, discovered first quartz lode, half mile east, naming it "Eureka", ...