The Hostess House War and Veterans Memorial

[Several veterans memorials are located at the base of the flagstaff in front of the Hostess House.]

Side A:

1861 – 1865

McKinley Post

Number 187

Dept. of Calif. And Nev.

Grand Army

of the Republic

Veterans of the Civil War

Organized in Palo Alto

January 21st 1905

There are at ...

Confederate Sharpshooter?

“…some mother may yet be patiently waiting for the return of her boy, whose bones lie bleaching, unrecognized and alone, between the rocks at Gettysburg.”

Alexander Gardner

Civil War photographer

In front of you is the setting of one of Gettysburg’s most famous ...

Baptiste and Mary Ann Peoria

Dedicated to a couple who helped found and shape Paola, Baptiste Peoria, chief of the Confederated Peoria Tribes and his wife Mary Ann Isaacs Dagenet Peoria chose to take a leadership role in developing Paola. Most of the Paola ...

U.S. Homestead

A federal New Deal project to move families back to the land during the Great Depression. Homes had water, electricity, barn, chicken coop, cellar and garden. Community had school, store, gas station, workshops, lumber mill, and quarry. U.S. government built ...

First Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church was established in 1808 under the leadership of the Rev. James Jenkins, an early circuit-riding minister, and John Buchanan, a captain in the Revolution. Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury visited here from 1809 to 1814. ...

Theodore Wirth

Theodore Wirth

Superintendent Hartford Parks

1896 - 1905

Designer 1903

Elizabeth Park Rose Garden

To whom this rose bed is dedicated

and for whom it will be maintained

as long as the park is here and people

love roses . . . forever

Conrad L. Wirth 1992

Marker can be ...

World War I Monument

"Spirit of the American Doughboy"

“Greater love hath

no man than this”

Agar, Thomas Agar

Bagshaw, Harry K.

Crites, Ernest A.

Easterday, Lawrence A.

Edgerly, Fred

Flora, Ralph Noah

Gaffrey, Edward Charles

Ginney, John Michael

Harmon, Floyd

Hempleman, Harvey Edgar

Early Industrial Patterns

The Pattern Building’s origins reflect the uses of the Valentine Riverside site by several industries that were key to America’s, and Richmond’s industrial development. The building’s stone and brick foundations are from a water-powered flour mill built by Lewis D. ...

Salt Sand

The sheer cliffs of Nuttall sandstones forming the walls of the New River Gorge are the "Salt Sands" of the driller. These sands produce oil and natural gas in West Virginia and commercial brines on the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers.

Sponsored ...

Brainerd Institute

This institute grew out of an 1866 school for freedmen; it became Brainerd Institute in 1868 when the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church in New York appointed Rev. Samuel Loomis to help establish churches and schools among the ...