Kings St. Coal Wharf - Skinner & Eddy Shipyards - Site of Hoover

A coal wharf was located at the waterfront during the late 19th century. Coal was transported here by railroad from Newcastle and Renton. Abandoned in the early 1900’s, the wharf soon became the Skinner & Eddy Shipyard.

During World War ...

Bernard - Hoover Boat House

1915

This frame building is the third boat house on the site. The site symbolizes the importance of pleasure boating in Madison in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The original boat yards and house were operated by Charles Bernard ...

Ballast Island

Historical Point of Interest

In this area once part of the bay, vessels from ports all over the world dumped their ballast. Untold thousands of tons were unloaded into the water by ship’s crews including 40,000 tons from San Francisco’s ...

Indians Attack Seattle! Jan. 26, 1856

Historical Point of Interest

The settlement would have been destroyed but for the presence of the U.S. Sloop of War “Decatur”. Anchored off this point, she fired a volley at the attackers, frightening them into hasty retreat.

Erected National Maritime ...

The Taylor-Grady House

General Robert Taylor (1787-1859), a planter and cotton merchant, built this Greek Revival home as a summer residence in 1839. Shortly thereafter he moved his family here permanently from Savannah in order for his sons to attend the University of ...

McAlister Auditorium

Erected 1960

to the Glory of God

through the advancement of

Christian culture

In Memory of

William H. McAlister

and his daughter

Amelie

This building was made possible by a grant made by Logan Fulrath and Guaranty Trust Company of New York

as executors of the last will and ...

Zanesville and Muskingum County Artwall

This is a “rubbing” wall which depicts the proud

history of Zanesville and Muskingum County.

Historic images are surrounded by tiles

depicting foliage from the Ohio Buckeye tree.

The images are in order of their dates

beginning with the image to your right and

continuing around ...

Justice John McKinley Federal Building

Side A

Named for Alabama's first United States Supreme Court Justice, John McKinley made his home in Florence, Alabama from about 1821 to 1842. Born May 1, 1780 in Culpepper County, Virginia, he died July 19, 1852 and is buried in ...

The Judges

This home takes its name from the many judges who have lived in it. The Judges was built circa 1809 by Peter Robinson, who served as Secretary of State for Delaware under three governors and was appointed Associate Justice for ...

Lee's Corps Withdrawn

Aug. 31, 1864. When Gen. Hood in Atlanta heard that Federal forces had seized the railroad at Rough and Ready & suspecting an attack from that quarter, he ordered Gen. S. D. Lee’s A. C. [CS] to move back toward ...