The Columbian House

This property has been

Placed on the

National Register

Of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of North River Road and Farnsworth Road, on the right when traveling south on North River Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Route of the Hiawatha- Tunneling Toward Tacoma

Snaking its railroad down the western side of the Bitterroot Mountains, the Milwaukee Road burrowed 16 tunnels to maintain a uniform grade down to Avery.

These tunnels were dug largely by hand using sledgehammers and hand drills. In some cases steam-powered ...

The William Green Hill House

Tennessean William Hickman Hill settled in Austin in the 1850s. He and his family became cultural and civic leaders. A grandson, William Green Hill (1853-1903), and his wife Ella Ione (Sanders) had this house built in 1890, angling it to ...

The Cumberland Valley Railroad

The first railroad to serve Hagerstown was the Franklin Railroad (F.R.R.). The City of Hagerstown invested $20,000 in this venture. The F.R.R. connected Hagerstown to the Cumberland Valley Railroad (C.V.R.R.) which ran from Chambersburg to Harrisburg. Service began in 1841. ...

Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto (1852-1968)

(side one)

Four Sisters of Loretto, Mother Magdalen Hayden and Sisters Roberta Brown, Rosana Dant and Catherine Mahoney, arrived in Santa Fe from Kentucky on September 26, 1852. In January 1853 they established Our Lady of Light Academy, later known as ...

Site of the Old Baptist Meeting House

" Here, in 1794, I had the happiness,

instrumentally, to lay the foundation of

a place of worship which composed of

the best materials, and classes with the

most neat and commodious Baptist

meetinghouses in the United States."

(Rev. Henry Holcombe, First Fruits ...

The Dearborn Inn / Colonial Homes and Adjacent Buildings

The Dearborn Inn

Henry Ford built the Dearborn Inn in 1931 to accommodate overnight travelers arriving at the Ford Airport. Located opposite the inn on Oakwood Boulevard, the airport opened in 1924. The 179-room inn, designed by Albert Kahn, was ...

The Old Military Road

The Old Military Road From Fort Howard on Green Bay to Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, 1835.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 18 and Lawless Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 18.

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The Million Penny Parade

Dr. Kate NewComb had a dream -- a hospital for the Lakeland area. Through contributions and volunteer help, the hospital was started. Because of the lack of funds the building was discontinued. Pennies would now help to complete the hospital.

The ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Temporary Trestles

Get the Line Open Quickly!

That was the policy of the Milwaukee Road. To do this in 1907 and 1908, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad built numerous sturdy, but short-lived, wood trestles to prepare the new line for track ...