The First Telephone Central Office in Columbus Ohio

Began service here January 1, 1879. It was located on the second floor of the Sessions Building which then stood on this site.

N. C. Kingsbury Chapter No. 2, Telephone Pioneers of America placed this tablet on the 70th anniversary of ...

Central Moravian Church

A Landmark of American Music

The annual festivals of the Bach Choir

of Bethlehem were initiated on

March 27, 1900 by the first American

performance of the “Mass in B Minor”

of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Marker is at the intersection of Church Street and Heckewelder Place, ...

Central Pacific’s Other Big Four

When the task of building the C.P.R.R. line over the Sierra provided too much for the Irish, Chinese laborers from Kwantung took over. Called Tze Yap or Four Districts Men, their hard work and perseverance earned them the nickname of ...

Central Railroad Of New Jersey

Built west from Elizabeth and Jersey City in the 1830s, reaching Easton in 1852. This stop spawned the town of Clinton Station, renamed Annandale in 1873.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and East Street, on the left when ...

Central Virginia Training Center

Established in 1910 as the Virginia State

Epileptic Colony, the center admitted its first

patients in May 1911. The facility originally

served persons with epilepsy and began

accepting individuals with mental retardation

in 1913. Due to the new national emphasis in

the mid-1950s on mental retardation, ...

South Branch Of The Central R.R.

Arrival in 1864 spawned the town of Three Bridges.

Huge quantities of livestock and meats were shipped from here. Passenger service ended 1953. Station dismantled in 1955.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and South Street, on the right ...

South Branch Of Central R.R.

In 1864 provided Flemington’s second rail line.

Passenger station erected here. A turntable to the west reversed the locomotives.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Blendon Central Cemetery

Here, in 1829, at the corner of Dempsey and Hempstead Roads was established a cemetery in connection with Blendon Central Church. This site was selected by the Blendon Presbyterian Assembly. Being the geographic center of the township, this served as ...

Swedish Central Methodist Church

Organized in 1873 by the Rev. Carl Charnquist, the Swedish Methodist Church built a sanctuary at Red River and 15th street. Led by the Rev. O.E. Olander, the congregation moved to this site in 1898 and occupied buildings of disbanded ...

Central Michigan University

Privately organized by citizens of Mt. Pleasant in 1892, Central became Michigan's second state-supported normal school in 1895. This met a long-felt need for a state school in this region. At first the college was designed to prepare rural ...