Bldg. 40, UWF Central Utility Building

Although not the best known campus facility, the Central Utilities Building, during the early years of UWF, provided the lifelines for the rest of campus, including central heating and air, chilled water distribution, electricity, steam and natural gas.

The consulting ...

Illinois Central 2613

In 1960, Illinois Central 2613, a Mountain type engine with 4-8-2 wheel arrangement, became the last steamer to operate on the railroad, ending a 190 year tradition. Western Kentucky, with its many coal mines, were among the last places in ...

The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal

Emigrant (Immigrant) Waiting Room

After passing the Statue of Liberty and being processed at Ellis Island, where did the new Americans go?

Once declared “clearly and beyond a doubt, entitled to land” almost two-thirds of the immigrants processed at Ellis ...

Illinois Central #790

This 2-8-0 Consolidation was built in 1903 by the American Locomotive Company and sold to the Illinois Central Railroad in 1904.

For many years, this engine saw hard service on the Illinois Central, hauling freight trains through Tennessee. In 1918, #790 ...

Stone Tavern and Central Hotel

George Nicholas, Albemarle County’s Virginia General Assembly delegate in 1783, built a stone house here in 1784. James Monroe occupied it 1789-1790, while improving the dwelling at his nearby farm, later the site of the University of Virginia. Here on ...

Ohio Central College

(formerly Iberia College)

Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, graduated in 1882 from the college formerly located here. While a student, Harding and a friend founded the school newspaper, “The Iberia Spectator.”

Marker is at the intersection of Mt. ...

Central

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The town of Central, chartered in 1875, grew up along what is now Gaines Street. The post office was called Five Mile from 1851 to 1871. In the 1870s the Atlanta & Richmond Airline Railway built its depot, hotel, offices, ...

North Carolina Central University

Founded 1910 by James E. Shepard for Negroes. State liberal arts college, 1925-1969. Now a regional university.

Marker is at the intersection of South Alston Avenue and East Lawson Street, on the left when traveling north on South Alston Avenue.

Courtesy ...

Central Railroad of Georgia Freight Depot

The Southwestern Railroad of Georgia was the first rail line to connect with Eufaula when the railroad bridge between Georgetown, Georgia and Eufaula was completed in late 1865. In 1867 the Vicksburg & Brunswick Railroad Company was formed to build ...

Central Consolidated School

This school traces its origin to five small schools in the Pollok-Central area; Union, Durant, Pollok, Clawson, and Allentown. An effort to solve the problem of inadequate funding for each of these rural schools led to their consolidation in 1929 ...