Twin Redoubts

Cedar Hill to the east and Fort Hercules (Argyl's) to the west were in use by Continental Army throughout the Revolutionary War.

Marker is at the intersection of Old West Point Rd and Old Albany Post Rd, on the left ...

The Oates Building

    The Oates Building is a prime example of Florida "Boom Time" architecture, expressed in the Mediterranean Revival style. Built in 1925 by Mr. Alvah Y. Oates, the building was designed by noted Florida and local architect E.C. Hosford. Originally ...

Birthplace of Farm Credit

This 280 acres was collateral for the nation's first Federal Land Bank loan made on April 10, 1917 to farmer-stockman A. L. Stockwell. In those days, farmers and ranchers found credit hard to come by. If available, it was often ...

The Edwards County Historical Society

This Church was built in 1884 in Wendel, Kansas. In 1917 the church was moved to Centerview, Kansas and moved to Kinsley, Kansas in September 1967.

The church was sold at public auction, bought by L.E. Brown, and later was donated ...

Clarkdale Mill Village Historic District

Circa 1931

The Clarkdale Thread Mill and its 96 bungalow style homes were designed by the J. E. Sirrine Company of Greenville, South Carolina, a company noted for progressive mill village planning, for the Clark Thread Company, a Scottish company with ...

The Casemate - Key to Fort Design

If you were to visit the nation's masonry forts built during the Fort Knox era, you would see many features common to most of them. One such feature is the casemate, a large enclosed space with a high, arched ceiling ...

The Road to Santa Fe

The Santa Fe trail, extending 750 miles from the Kansas City area to the old Spanish settlement of Santa Fe, was the great overland trade route of the 1820's to 1870s. Its commercial use began in 1821, when William Becknell ...

The Lone Tree Incident

During the first half of the 19th century the U.S. government, in response to public pressure for land and resources, began a program of concentrating Indian tribes on reservations. After the Civil War, an ever growing number of settlers made ...

Arkalon and the Samson of the Cimarron

Many Kansas towns originated as potential railroad centers. Three miles west of this marker Arkalon was founded in 1888 at the Cimarron river crossing of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska railway, a part of the Rock Island. Town lots were ...

When Coronado came to Kansas

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with 36 soldiers and Father Juan de Padilla, marched north from the Rio Grande valley in the spring of 1541. Coronado's objective was the land of Quivira, described to the Spaniards as a fabulously wealthy kingdom ...