The New Ferry Building – Ellis Island

Save America’s Treasures

Restoration of the New Ferry Building on Ellis Island is being supported in part by a Federal Save America’s Treasures award administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

New Ferry Building

In 1999, the Statue of Liberty ...

Old Cool Springs Cemetery

1840 - 1873

Site of Cool Springs Baptist Church, now First Baptist Church, organized in John Bostick Home, 1848. First log meeting house 1855-1867. First church and cemetery in settlement.

Marker is on Vance St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Duarte Garage

Built 1915

Service Station and Car Dealership

Situated on the Original Route

of the Lincoln Highway

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City of Livermore

Historic Preservation Site

Dedicated July 1996

Operated by

The Livermore Heritage Guild

Marker can be reached from Pine Street near L Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oxon Cove, the Potomac, and the Chesapeake

The history of Oxon Cove Park is a small part of the larger story of the Potomac River, which is one chapter in the long tale of the Chesapeake Bay. But the three stories overlap in many details and eras.

For ...

Livermore Southern Pacific Depot

This railroad station having been located about half a mile west of the old town of Laddsville, on land owned by Wm. M. Mendenhall. Established the location of the town Livermore. The first depot was a freight car that was ...

The Pedestal

The granite pedestal of the Statue was paid for entirely by private funds raised in the United States. It was designed by the eminent American architect, Richard Morris Hunt, and engineered by former Civil War General, Charles P. Stone. Its ...

United Mine Workers of America Building

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

Associated with the American Labor Movement since the

1930's, this building served for over two decades as

organized ...

Building the Statue of Liberty

The French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty as a giant three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Over 300 thin sheets of copper, most of it from a copper mine in Karmoy, Norway, fit together to form the Statue’s outer ...

Livermore Town Hall Jail and Firehouse

[Upper Marker:]

Built 1875, this building was first a hotel then the Livermore Valley Bank. It was the Livermore Town Hall from 1905 to 1957. The jail was in the rear, and to the left the firehouse. It was here a ...

Badger State Shoe Factory

Ferdinand Kronenberg, Architect

Albert and Henry Atkins founded the Badger State Shoe Factory in Milwaukee in 1893. They expanded production to Madison in 1900 and in 1910 constructed this building to consolidate manufacturing operations. Significant for its association with turn of ...