The Bicentennial Legacy Monument

1. John McIntire, Founder, son-in-law of Ebenezer Zane. Visionary for the town’s development. His legacy lives on in the McIntire Scholarship Fund. Died in 1815 at age 56.

2. Noah Norris, Patriot. Enlisted in the first black regiment recruited in Ohio ...

Father Marquette's Camp - 1674

Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who with Sieur Louis Jolliet discovered and first explored the upper Mississippi in 1673, stayed on this site November 23-27, 1674. Marquette, with two French Canadians, Pierre Porteret and Jacques Largillier, was returning ...

Madonna of the Trail

(Southwest Face) N.S.D.A.R. Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days.

(Northwest Face) A Nation's Highway! Once a wilderness trail over which hardy pioneers made their perilous way seeking new homes in the dense forests of the great ...

The Michael Camp House

The Camp House erected in 1870 by Michael Camp, Jr. Believed to be the oldest continuing family in Rochester. Leaders in civic, religious and fraternal affairs. This was home to three county commissioners and four masters of the Rochester Masonic ...

The Boston Company

Seven members of the Boston Mechanics’ Mining & Trading Company, namely George West (President), Walter Pollard, James MacDonald (Business manager), Mark Leonardo Blunt (later Postmaster), James McIntyre, Lawrence Panton, and Joseph T. Bird arrived in Golden on June 12, 1859. ...

Meriwether Monument

Hero of the Hamburg Riot

[South face ]:

Dec. 4,1852 - July 8, 1876

———

In Memory of

Thomas McKie

Meriwether.

Who on 8th July 1876,

gave his life that the

civilization builded by his

fathers might be preserved

for their childrens

children unimpaired.

[East face]:

In youths clad mourning the

unfinished years of manhood

stretching ...

The Female College

1833 - 1889

This private institution, although undergoing several trusteeships and name changes, continuously functioned as an exclusive female school for over 50 years. It attracted students from southern states as well as local young ladies. Out of town students boarded ...

The Calamari Story

Dedicated to the fishermen of Monterey Bay

Since the early 1900's the Monterey Bay has been one of the principal fishing centers along the Pacific Coast. Today, Monterey's fishermen continue to be major contributors to the nation's supply of squid (calamari).

In ...

The First Methodist Church in Anderson Was Built Here

—1827–1977— The pioneer Methodist Church of Anderson began meeting in homes in 1821 and was organized as a congregation in 1827. Their first primitive log church was on the southwest corner of 11th and Delaware Streets. In 1849 a new ...

The Bingham-Brewer House

This two-story Federal structure is significant for its architecture and for its personal associations. The house is one of only two pre-1830 brick structures still intact in Rockville.

The front section is 24-feet high and 24-feet wide. It rests on brick ...