“The Old Homestead House” of Myers Avenue

The town site of Cripple Creek was laid out shortly after the discovery of gold by Horace Bennett, a Denver realtor, with his partner, Julius Myers, naming the street after each of them. Bennett Avenue became the main street of ...

Old Homestead Parlour House

1896

Situated just below Cripple Creek’s fashionable business district, the Old Homestead anchored Myers Avenue’s “entertainment trade.” On a street flanked by saloons and one-room “cribs” where individual “ladies” could ply their trade, this brothel was noted for its elegant hostesses ...

Adam Bellis Homestead

Bellis built a log cabin on the bluff above river ca. 1740 among Indian camps. Parts of the present house date from late 1700s.

Marker is on Kuhl Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Windlass Hill Pioneer Homestead

The stones surrounding this marker are the remains of the homestead dwelling of Reverend Dennis B. Clary, a pioneer Methodist Minister, who received final patent for his homestead Mar 22, 1899. Mr. Clary was born September 1st 1822, in Maryland ...

Howison Homestead

Howison Homestead

Stephen Howison I

1736 – 1815

Stephen Howison III

1776 – 1862

“The Graves of the dead who rest from their labors.”

Donated by the Howison Family 1991

The Home of my Childhood.

How dear to my thought is the place of my childhood

It ...

White Homestead

Erected 1830 by Hugh White

who helped develop Cohoes

Power and Industry; R. R.

Builder; Congressman; Brother

of Canvass White, C. E.,

Builder of Erie Canal

Marker is on Museum Lane, on the right when traveling south.

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Conrad Sly Homestead

Settled in Warwick 1778, a

blacksmith who forged Rev.

War chain that crossed

Hudson River at West Point.

Pvt. in Col. Hathorn’s Regt.

The Sly Family

Marker is on Maple Avenue (New York Route 17A), on the right when traveling north.

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A Storied Homestead

Here, Francois Navarre, first white settler in Monroe, built his home. His 500 acre farm, acquired by deed from the Indians in 1785, afforded a center for the River Raisin colony, by 1790 an important frontier community.

Col. Navarre was friend ...

Homestead Strike Victims

In these two adjoining cemeteries are buried six of the seven Carnegie Steel Company workers killed during the “Battle of Homestead” on July 6, 1892. The graves of Peter Ferris, Henry Striegel, and Thomas Weldon are here in St. Mary's ...

The Homestead Grays

Legendary baseball team that dominated the Negro Baseball Leagues during the first half of the 20th century. Founded by steelworkers in 1900, the Grays inspired African Americans locally and across the nation. Led by Cumberland Posey Jr., they won 12 ...