Panhandle Baptists

Organized Baptist work in the Oklahoma Panhandle began Aug. 5, 1894 when the Pleasant View Baptist Church was founded with 8 charter members 1½ mi. N and 1½ mi. E of here. Meetings were in the Pleasant View school house ...

R. D. Whitehead Monument

(bronze plaque)

Originally a horse watering trough

Erected in 1910

Restored as a fountain in 1966

by the

Mayor’s Beautification Committee

Designated a Milwaukee Landmark in 1974

in recognition of its historical

significance to the community

(stone mounument)

Erected ...

The Mormon Battalion in the Oklahoma Panhandle

From September 23 through 27, 1846, the Mormon Battalion crossed the northwestern portion of the Oklahoma panhandle. The little army's 500-plus volunteers, recruited for the Mexican War, were enlisted near Council Bluffs, Iowa, from among the first company of Mormon ...

Boise City Bombed

July 5, 1943

Still Booming

July 5, 1993

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Oklahoma Route 325) and Cimarron Avenue (U.S. 385), on the right when traveling west on Main Street.

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The Roadside Table

Here on old U.S. 16 in Boston Township, Ionia County, the first picnic table along a highway right-of-way was placed in 1929 through the initiative of Allan Williams, county engineer. The table was built of salvage planks formerly used as ...

White's Bridge

This picturesque covered bridge, one of the last of its kind in Michigan, was built in 1867 by Jared N. Brazee and J.N. Walker, builders of several covered bridges in this area. The name of the bridge derives from the ...

Gibson County Confederate Memorial

Erected to the memory of our Confederate Soldiers by the Russell-Hill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

"Lest We Forget"

Marker is at the intersection of Eaton Street (Tennessee Route 104, 77) and College Street (U.S. 45), on the ...

Belrockton Dormitory

Built in 1906, the Belrockton is the last remaining boardinghouse of the three provided by the Belding Brothers and Company for its single female workers. A major silk manufacturer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the company employed ...

Pere Marquette Railway Depot

Completed in 1923 for the Pere Marquette Railway, this depot is typical of the railroad stations that served Michigan towns during the early decades of the twentieth century. The depot replaced an earlier, wood frame station built during the 1880s ...

George Washington Boulder

George Washington Boulder

On this rock

President George Washington

rested and ate dinner, enroute

from Salisbury to Winston-Salem

May 31, 1791

Erected by

Gen Wm. Davidson Chapter D.A.R.

Lexington N.C.

1926

Marker is on Route 150, on the right when traveling west.

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