Boone Homesteads

This historical marker[,] placed near Edminston store[,] records two homesteads of the Daniel Boone family in Wilkes County during the 1760's.

Site Number One is located one-half mile South of the spot, near Beaver Creek.

The Boone Family later moved to Site ...

Site of the Jerome C. and Mary Chiles Davis Homestead

Two olive and two fig trees survive from the Davis’ prize-winning farm of the 1850’s. Nearby also stand some of the original shingled buildings of the University State Farm, located here in 1906. From this nucleus, the University Farm has ...

Davenport Homestead

circa 1770

Colonial home of Daniel Davenport, farmer, surveyor, and first Senator from Washingtyon County. He served in the Revolutionary War. Homestead 3 miles ->

Marker is at the intersection of Mt Tabor Road and Arnold Hill Road, on the right when ...

A Connecticut Minuteman’s Homestead

A Connecticut

Minuteman’s Homestead

At 139 North Street lived Revolutionary War “Minuteman” John Downs (1745 – 1819). A “minuteman” was a patriot who, with the local militia, would respond quickly to an alarm. With musket in-hand they were ready “in a ...

Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Memorial Homestead

This property is the former homesite of civil rights activists Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore, two people whose lives were committed to help Florida's Negro communities unite to form a collective identity.

Mr. Moore was a Brevard County educator ...

Historic Haile Homestead At Kanapaha

One of the oldest houses in Alachua County, the Historic Haile Homestead was the home of Thomas Evans Haile, his wife Esther Serena Chesnut Haile, and 14 of their children. The Hailes came here from Camden, South Carolina in 1854 ...

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead

A superb example of the Dutch Colonial style.

Modest in size, it has survived with little or no change, and has been continuously occupied since its construction (c. 1766) as the main house of a working ...

National Historic Landmark - John Jay Homestead

National Historic Landmark - John Jay Homestead

Country seat and farm of the distinguished statesman, jurist, and diplomat. He inherited it at the peak of his political career, and personally developed it, spending his retirement years (1801-29) here.

Courtesy National Park Service ...

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

In 1890 Washington Duke's son, James B. Duke, organized the American Tobacco Company, preeminent in its time.

The family's frame house, reconstructed small tobacco factory of log construction, and frame third factory (c. ...

MacFarlane Homestead Subdivision Historic District

Bounded by Oak Avenue, Grand Avenue, Brooke Street and Jefferson Street.

Developed by Coral Gables founder George Merrick as a black residential neighborhood, the early homes of this district were built in the late 1920s and 1930s in the vernacular style ...