Jesse M. Unruh State Office Building

Designated on the 19th day of August 1987

By the

Honorable George Deukmejian

Governor of California

In honor of

Jesse Marvin Unruh

September 30, 1922 – August 4, 1987

Member of the Assembly, 1955 – 1970

Speaker of the Assembly, 1961 – 1968

Treasurer of California, 1974 – 1987

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Early Industries

Industries have flourished here in the lower Gwynns Falls Valley since the early 1700s, when the Baltimore Iron Works Co. turned iron into nails and anchors and Dr. Charles Carroll's gristmills ground wheat into flour. The Wilkens Curled Hair Factory, ...

Samuel Brown and the Underground Railroad

Across Fond du Lac Avenue from this point was the Samuel Brown farm, part of the local Underground Railroad, a network of hiding places for escaping slaves. In July 1842, 16-year-old Caroline Quarlles, a runaway slave from St. Louis, was ...

Old Hall at Belle Grove

In 1783, Isaac Hite, Jr. married Nelly Madison Hite of Montpelier, and acquired by grant from his father the 483 acre tract that was to become the center of Belle Grove Plantation. Until the elegant manor house was built between ...

Singleton/Wimpy/Gaillard Homeplace

Dr. Joseph J. Singleton, first superintendent of the Dahlonega mint, purchased this property in 1836 and built a home the following year. His wife, Mary Ann Singleton, joined the Dahlonega Baptist Church by letter on September 1, 1838, the day ...

National Historic Landmark - Carrollton Viaduct

The Carrollton Viaduct carried the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad over the Gwynns Falls, its first malor stream crossing as it headed west from its Pratt Street terminus Completed in 1829, the 300-foot stone span is named for Charles Carroll of ...

Balloons Over the Battlefield

“The view I had of the field of battle from the balloon for the first time that afternoon showed me how serious it was…..I was up half an hour in all, when I saw certain movements of our forces which ...

Morgan Hollinshead Clock Shop Site

He was well known as a maker of grandfather clocks. Circa 1775-1832.

For a number of years he was a member of the township committee.

A Quaker, he died in 1832 and is buried in the Friends Graveyard across Main Street.

The building, ...

First Moorestown, New Jersey Friends Meeting House

The granite stone behind this plaque marks the location of the first Friends Meeting House. Built of logs in 1700. It was the earliest building for worship in Moorestown.

In 1720, it burned and was replaced with a large stone building ...

The Flood of August 19, 1955

"So numerous were the many acts of heroism, rescue of the sick and invalid, neighbors' concern for neighbors, that it would be impossible to chronicle them with slighting someone deserving of great credit." - Torrington Register, August 26, 1955

It was ...