Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building

1887

Home of

Hope Lodge No. 33

Est. 1854

Gold Quartz Rebekah No. 219

Est. 1896

Calaveras Encampment No. 18

Est. 1859

Ladies Encampment No. 18

Est. 1950

Princess Parlor No. 84

Native Daughters of the Golden West

Est. 1895

Marker can be reached from South Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bird Cage Theatre

This structure has been

recorded by the

Historic American

Buildings Survey

of the United Stated Department

of the Interior for its

archives at the Library of Congress.

Marker is on East Allen Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Nacogdoches

(August 2, 1832)

One of the opening actions of the Texas War for Independence, this battle occurred soon after settlers drove out the Mexican garrisons at Anahuac and Velasco. In 1932 Col. Jose De las Piedras, in command of over 300 ...

Pioneer Settler / Founder of Reamstown

Pioneer Settler

Johann Eberhard Ream, born in Leimen, Germany on October 6, 1687 came to America with his family in 1717. They were the first white people in this area, having arrived here in 1723 or 4. He received two grants ...

Ancient Buried Forest

Two Creeks Buried Forest State Natural Area

Located on a high, eroding bluff along Lake Michigan, Two Creeks is an ancient forest of pine, hemlock, and spruce that established about 12,000 years ago. During various glacial advances and retreats water, silt, ...

The Xzanders G. McFarland House and McFarland Gap

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

Mr. Xzanders Gordon McFarland of Walker County(Rossville Georgia) was a slave holder. So when the Civil War took his two oldest sons into the army, he gathered his slaves, his four teenage daughters and his stock and ...

The Bank Building

First Opened for Business on April 19, 1886

When the building opened, it was the second largest in Victoria with a total area 5,230 square feet. The original drawings came from London, England.

Using brick on a stone foundation, Mr. Williams combined ...

Railroad Standard Time

Before 1883, clocks were set to local "sun time," where noon was the time when the sun was highest in the local sky. Use of sun time meant that each town's time was different; Chicago would be nearly 5 minutes ...

Spaulding Tower / Towers and Interlocking Plants

Spaulding Tower

For over 90 years, this classic Midwestern interlocking tower protected the junction of the Milwaukee Road and the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern at Spaulding, just east of Elgin, Illinois.

Originally built around 1890 when the EJ&E extended north toward Waukegan, ...

Chicago Railways Company Date Stone

ca. 1908

This date stone came from the Chicago Railways Company "West Shops" complex located in Chicago at Maple and Harding Ave. Streetcars were built there and the shops survive to this day serving the Chicago Transit Authority. This stone was ...