Moody Hotel

In 1910 Canadian was a thriving railroad and marketing center with a Baptist Academy. English-born Robert Moody (1838-1915), a rancher, banker and trustee of the academy, decided to build a hotel that would reflect the town's prosperity. On the site ...

Canadian River Trails

Trade, exploration and hunting trails along the Canadian are older than recorded history—old when used 1541 by Spaniard Coronado hunting golden cities of Cibola. Route in 1840 for Josiah Gregg and 34 Missouri men with goods worth $25,000 headed for ...

The Yard

We were all working there for one purpose: to get this country out of trouble. Everyone had one thing in mind: to produce and to win.

Bill Walton

Worker at New England Shipbuilding Corp.

Before there could be any British Ocean class or ...

Stratford Junior High School

On February 2, 1959, Stratford Jr. High became the first racially integrated school in Virginia. The long battle to integrate Virginia's public schools followed the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which held that racially ...

Site of Green Academy

Chartered in 1812. Leading educational Institution. Long prominent in training leaders of North Alabama. Occupied by Federal troops, 1862. Building burned, 1864. Site of city schools since 1882. Location used only for school purposes. Alabama Historical Association 1955

Marker is on ...

Wilbur G. Grant Reservoir of Chester Metropolitan District

Dedicated by resolution of the Commission in recognition of the work and service of Senator Wilbur G. Grant in making possible this Reservoir and water system, for the people of Chester County.

E.J. Fowler, Chairman; Robert H. King, Secretary; W.E. ...

Sarah Fairfield Hamilton, 1831-1909

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Sarah Fairfield Hamilton was a founder of the local chapter of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and led that organization to create Saco's first kindergarten, a nursery for mill workers' children, summer park programs and ...

A Building Stood Here Before 1680

A building stood here before 1680. It was wrecked in the Great Indian Uprising. This house incorporates what remains.

Marker is on East Palace Avenue west of Cathedral Place, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

“Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train”

Front

The state of Pennsylvania authorized the “Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train” as an official Bicentennial project. It was one of five such trains that traveled across the country to reach Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, for the 1976 July ...

Captain Diego Arias de Quiros

In 1697 this property was granted to Captain Diego Arias de Quiros by Spanish royal decree for his part in the reconquest of New Mexico with De Vargas. In 1879 bought by L. Bradford Prince, later Territorial Governor. In 1942 ...