Superintendent’s House

“Silver Queen City”

By 1899, this house stood at the head of Magnolia Avenue, or “Silk Stocking Row,” where the elite of Granite lived. The first floor housed the living quarters for the Superintendent of the Granite Mountain Mining Co. The ...

United Building

Built 1887

Completed in 1903, this building once was owned by T.E. Dewey and was known as the Brady Building. In 1904, following a disastrous flood, the building was sold to Cleyson L. Brown, Abilene entrepreneur whose many enterprises provided employment ...

Union Pacific Depot

Built 1928

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

1991

Marker is on NW 2nd Street near Broadway, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Scale Model of Fort Stevens

Dedicated September 1936

in memory of

The Grand Army of the Republic

by the

Daughters of Union Veterans

of the

Civil War

1861-1865

Marker is on Quackenbos St NW near 13th Street NW, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy ...

Dwight David Eisenhower

Abilene, Kansas

boyhood home of

Dwight David Eisenhower

General of the Army, WWII

President of the United States,

1953-1961

"The proudest thing I can claim

is that I am from Abilene

Homecoming, 1945

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Why is the Washington Monument Temporarily Closed?

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia sent tremors throughout eastern North America. This seismic activity affected a number of Washington, D.C. landmarks, including the Washington Monument. National Park Service engineers and experts in historic ...

Strawberry Capital of the World

In the early 1940's, Paducah-McCracken County was known as the strawberry capital of the world. Schools excused students to pick berries. Entire families were involved in this agricultural event. Freight cars carried thousands of crates of berries were shipped from ...

Broadway, Paducah's Main Street

This scene shows Broadway, Paducah's main street, in the 1940's when the downtown area was the center for the community's retail, business, and entertainment activities. Such downtown landmarks as the Guthrie Building, 1937 Post Office, Palmer House Hotel, Citizens Bank ...

Flanking the Statue of Chief Paduke

The centerpiece of this mural is the February 1948 cover of the Enthusiast magazine featuring officers David Drew and Jullian Pryor Slaughter on their Harleys flanking the statue of Chief Paduke. Also shown are: Paducah motorcycle racer "Tennessee Slim" Mayo; ...

Discovery of Gold at Gold Hill

The tablet commemorates the

discovery of gold-bearing quartz

and the beginning of quartz mining

in California

The discovery was made on

Gold Hill

by

George Knight

October 1850

The occurrence of gold-bearing quartz was undoubtedly noted here and elsewhere about the same time or previously, but the above discovery ...