Route One, Our Hometown Main Street

City of Hyattsville

Records from the early 1700's indicate that a riverfront settlement named Beale Town was once located on the site that later became Hyattstown. The little outpost never achieved town status. In 1742, the residents petitioned to have a ...

North Main Street

Historical Plaza Walking Tour Stop 8

The Seitz Drug Store, founded across the street in 1868 on the corner of North Main and Douglas Avenue, was advertised as the oldest established drugstore in western Kansas. The claim still holds true as ...

Eastport's Old "Main Street"

The historic buildings you can see from here date back to before 1900, when the first bridge to Annapolis connected to the end of this street. In those days, Fourth Street was the bustling commercial heart of Eastport. Anything you ...

Main Street Christian Church

Built on this site in 1842. The 16-day Campbell-Rice Debate on Christian baptism, etc., was held here Nov. 1843, Hon. Henry Clay Presiding.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard on East Main Street. ...

301 West Main Street

T.C. Harbaugh Birthplace

This house (ca. 1830) was the birthplace of Thomas C. Harbaugh (1849-1924); One of the most popular American writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His family moved to Ohio when he was 2 years old. ...

13 West Main Street

"The Lutheran Parsonage"

"Lot No. 1" on Jesserong's plat of Middletown as he laid it out in the year 1767.

The Lutheran Parsonage and the two story "Lecture Hall Building" which was located to the front right of the parsonage and the ...

8 West Main Street

Circa 1800

The dwelling located here at #8 West Main Street is significant as an early 19th century vernacular log building that was modified in the ca. 1930's with the application of a simulated Flemish bond brick veneer facade. It reflects ...

Main Street

Cultural Convergence

Marker Front:

Fourteenth Street has always been the business backbone of Columbia Heights. Beginning in the 1890s, electric streetcars dropped passengers at nearly every corner, attracting commerce. By 1925 storefronts occupied the blocks between Euclid and Otis Streets.

Main Street Primary School

You are standing at the second story entrance to what once was a three story primary school. The land was purchased, a bond was passed and construction began in 1913. It opened May 29, 1914 to graduate 3 seniors: Francis ...

Main Street Commercial Historic District Platteville

Settled in response to the discovery of lead ore in the area, the original Village of Platteville was platted in 1835. Designed around existing miners' diggings, and lead ore smelters, Platteville was patterned after English villages with narrow streets, thin ...