Nevada Added Station

In Search of the Pony Express - Station Marker

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Dedicated September 15, 2001

NEVADA

Added Station

Jul. 1, 1861 - Nov. 20, 1861

By

Bennetts Family

James Stretesky

Dayton Historic Society

Don, Nancy, Jody & Jeff Dallas

Robert & Rae Marie Foster Family

Pony Express Trail Association

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Dayton in 1860 was called ...

Captain Jonathan Caldwell

This farm, formerly known as Burberry's Berry, was home of Captain Jonathan Caldwell of Colonel Haslet's Regiment in Revolution. Tradition says Delaware soldiers received name "Blue Hen's Chickens" from Caldwell's men having with tem game chickens, celebrated in Kent County ...

Jefferson Street Methodist Church

This was the first Methodist congregration in Natchez formed in the early 1800s, and the 1st building was constructed in 1807. The 1st Sunday School south of Philadelphia, Pa., was organized here in 1829.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson ...

Burkhart Building

This graceful yet sturdy building is of the Italianate design. Shoes have been sold here since 1864, making it Ohio's oldest continuously operating footwear location. William Covill operated his store here in 1870. John Burkhart built the current structure in ...

Geographic Center of Delaware

In 1989, a curious seventh grader from the Caesar Rodney School District asked where the center of Delaware was located. With the help of his teacher and the Kent County Department of Planning, it was determined that the geographic center ...

Toward the River

During the 5 days when Army of the Tennessee headquarters were here, the troops of the 15th & 17th A. C. [US] were posted on a ridge just W. of Nickajack Creek, facing the left of Johnston’s River Line. (July ...

The Old Jail

The old jail, actually the county's fourth, was completed in 1875 at a cost of $38,600. The Victorian Italianate design made it a distinctive structure. The front facade is composed of 2,000 pound limestone blocks. The jail housed inmates ...

Coming of the Railroad

Efforts to establish rail transportation in Delaware were realized in 1832 with the completion of the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad connecting shipping traffic on the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River. The promise of railroads was clearly demonstrated, and in ...

General John and Annie K. Bidwell Gravesite

This marks the location of

General John and

Annie K. Bidwell’s

Gravesite

Founders and Benefactors of Chico

Marker can be reached from Mangrove Avenue near 881 Mangrove Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dr. Florence Seibert

(1897-1991)

Birth site of the renowned biochemist. In spite of the handicap of polio, she developed in the 1920s a safe process for intravenous therapy. Later, in 1934, she refined the tuberculin skin test that was ultimately adopted worldwide.

Marker is on ...