President's House

In August 1905, the Fort Omaha post was reestablished with a new mission. The War Department designated Fort Omaha as a place of instruction for the technical duties in connection with the Signal Corps of the Army. With this change, ...

Oat Hill Mine Road

Just a stones throw to the north, running through the Palisades, is Oat Hill Mine Road.

A narrow and picturesque trail today, it was once used to carry over 160,000 flasks of quicksilver valued at more than $5,000,000 from the ...

Atchison County World War I Memorial

Let us hold in grateful memory

the Atchison County men who gave all

for God, Country and Humanity in the

World War 1917-1919

[Roll of Honored Dead]

Private Bryan Amend

Co. C., 140th Inf., 35th Div.

Died at Ft. Sill, Okla., Feb. 1, 1918

Private Iradell Babcock

Caisson Co. ...

East Fork Hotel Building

1441 Highway 395

The East Fork Hotel was constructed in 1893 by George and Charley Brown, two brothers who came to Genoa, Nevada with a traveling circus. The Brown Brothers also owned the East Fork Brickyard, providing bricks that were used ...

Damien Marchessault

This street is named for Damien Marchessault, a French Canadian, who served twice as mayor of Los Angeles - from 1859-1860 and again from 1861-1865. During his terms in office, the Plaza Church was rebuilt and the City Gas Company ...

Rock Hill Buggy Company / Anderson Motor Company

Rock Hill Buggy Company

In 1886 A.D. Holler, who had long owned a wagon and buggy shop in Rock Hill, founded Holler and Anderson Buggy Company with his son-in-law John Gary Anderson (1861-1937). Anderson built a factory here in 1892, with ...

Longstreet's Command

Drayton's Brigade, Jones' Division

C.S.A.

Longstreet's Command,

Drayton's Brigade, Jones' Division

Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Drayton, Commanding.

Organization.

50th Georgia Infantry, 51st Georgia Infantry,

15th South Carolina Infantry,

(September 15-17, 1862.)

Drayton's Brigade reached Sharpsburg about 11 a.m., September 15th, and was posted on the southwest slope of Cemetery ...

The Oldest House on Branch Street

Henry Stackhouse built this

home of salt box design

c. 1815. The front porch was

added later. The cedar siding

resists the elements without

needing to be painted.

Marker is on Branch Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Masonic Temple Building

1910

The Masonic Temple Building was dedicated on April 15, 1910 and still serves as the home of Eden Lodge #113 of the Freemasons. The Eden Lodge was instituted in San Leandro in 1857, the first fraternal order established here. This ...

First Glass Door Oven

The first full-size glass door oven was invented and manufactured here by Ernst H. Huenefeld of The Huenefeld Company in 1909. Specially designed and patented sheet metal frames in the door allowed for expansion and contraction of the glass. ...