Model K Star Spudder

This is a Model K Star Drilling Machine, also called a "spudder".

Drilling machines such as this one were used for two purposes:

1. To drill the initial hole for a rotary-drilled well.

2. To drill a complete oil well at shallow depth ...

Ending Slavery in Washington

Civil War to Civil Rights

To your right at the end of Indiana Avenue is Washington's first City Hall/Courthouse. Across Sixth Street is the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, a successor to the original courthouse.

The Old City Hall/Courthouse opened ...

Blackwater Draw

Blackwater Draw consists of several important archaeological sites that have yielded much information about the big-game hunting way of life. Some of the animals that were hunted, like the mammoth, are long extinct. Eastern New Mexico University's Blackwater Draw Museum ...

Weaverville Basin Gold Discovery Site

In the bend of Rich Gulch near its junction with Ash Hollow five miners worked the winter of 1849-50, with the use of a log hollowed out to make a rocker. The rich pocket yielded five pounds of gold per ...

Old Meeting House Common

Site of Walpole's first houses of God, Those of Reverend Philip Payson and Reverend George Morey, Early Harvard Graduates.

O Zion Mount of pleading, our forefathers earlier shrine. Though now shorn of crest and hillsides art thou "Auld Lang Syne" Twilight ...

Dedham Boat Club

Founded April 25, 1874

"For promoting the boating interests of the town"

Incorporated October 29th 1874

First boathouse built on Ames Street site in 1875.

Destroyed by lightning in July 1882.

Second boathouse built on this site in 1883,

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The Powder House

The Powder House

Built by the Town

1766

Marker is on Ames Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Steel Oil Derrick / 1930's Cable-Tool Drilling Rig

This derrick is one of the last wood and steel oil derricks which once dotted the Butler County countryside. It was built in the mid-1940's and is 100 feet high.

Donated by: Larry Crawford

Donors: Joe Degan Pipe & Supply, Albert Hogoboom, ...

Amsterdam, Georgia / Shade Grown Tobacco

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Amsterdam, Georgia

In 1891, A. Cohn & Co. purchased 14,000 acres for tobacco cultivation and named it Amsterdam. At that time, the property was the largest tobacco plantation in the world under one ownership. In 1907, seven of the larger ...

Fort Independence

Dedicated July 14th by the Republic of France and the people of Hull in celebration of the United States of America bicentennial. In grateful tribute to the French sailors and marines who served and died at Fort Independence during the ...