Blythewood Plantation

This turn-of-the-century home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Daniel Hardy Sanders built this Colonial Revival style masterpiece to overlook his 400 acre plantation. From the columned porch, guest enter into the elegance of a bygone era. ...

Hastings Spiral Bridge

Erected 1895 • Demolished 1951

Hastings Spiral Bridge Only One of Its Kind in America

April 27 1895 eight thousand people commemorated the opening of the new "High Wagon Bridge" across the Mississippi River.

It was built in seven months at a cost ...

The Presidential District

History Link: A Trail to Deadwood’s Past

As South Deadwood expanded along Sherman Street in early 1876, log cabins and small frame houses appeared on the hillsides above the mining camp. A cemetery was quickly established on a hill deemed too ...

Sherman Street and the East Side

Deadwood developed along both sides of Whitewood Creek, forming the two main thoroughfares of Main and Sherman Street. In the 1880s the firms on Sherman tended to be small retail and service businesses.

With the arrival of the railroads in the ...

The Most Reverend Emmet Michael Walsh

Sixth Bishop of Charleston, S.C.

Born in Beaufort South Carolina

March 6, 1892

Consecrated Bishop of Charleston

September 8, 1927

Installed as Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio

November 9, 1949

Died in Youngstown, Ohio

March 16, 1968

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Edwards Hotel

Constructed in 1923 and renamed the King Edward Hotel in 1954, the Edwards Hotel was the site of temporary studios set up by OKeh Records in 1930 and the American Record Corporation in 1935 to record blues artists Bo Carter, ...

Catalina Island Yacht Club

Founded 1924

The Catalina Island Yacht Club has been a welcoming landmark in Avalon Bay since the building was completed in 1924. One of the oldest and most unique yacht clubs in Southern California, it has a proud history rich ...

Rock Island Depot

1887 - 1988

Native limestone and benchmark from the Herington Rock Island Depot that was on the State Register of Historic Places. Razed - March 23, 1988.

Marker is on Broadway, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Father Juan de Padilla & Quivira

In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado marched north from Mexico with 300 Spaniards in search of the "Seven Golden Cities of Cibola." With them were several priests, including Juan de Padilla, a Franciscan friar. When the golden cities proved ...

A Sad Duty to Perform

His second day of freedom,

Former Slave

John Washington

wrote about seeing the “side-by-side” burial of seven Union soldiers April 19th, 1862, in Falmouth’s Union Church Cemetery.

“The soldiers had a sad duty to perform…The funeral was one of the most solemn and ...