Kansas City Southern Railroad Depot

The Mission Revival style Kansas City Southern Depot opened in 1916. It symbolizes the great Vernon Parish lumber boom of the early 20th century. Closed in 1968, Kansas City Southern leased the Depot to Vernon Parish. Placed on the National ...

Dreamland Theatre

Circa 1915

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on 3rd Street north of East Texas Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Smithton Lodge No. 1 A.F.&A.M.

The oldest Lodge in Kansas [1854]

Chartered March 17, 1856

Dedicated June 8, 1991

M[ost] W[orshipful] Conrad F Johnson

First Grand Master from Smithton Lodge

AF and AM of Kansas

Marker is on Main Street near Genesee Street, on ...

Side Cut Locks

The Side Cut section of the Miami and Erie Canal was completed in 1842 to provide a water connection from the canal down to the river at Maumee. It was two miles long with six limestone locks.

Canal locks acted like ...

Butterfield Overland Stage

On September 16, 1857, John Butterfield, a New Yorker, received a contract with the U.S. Post Office Department to establish reliable transportation between Missouri and San Francisco.

As a young man he joined with Henry Wells and William Fargo to ...

Claxton First United Methodist Church

First organized church in Claxton, Georgia,

First Pastor -- Rev. C.S.T. Strickland

Charter Members

Member`s Name, Date Joined

Joseph M. Bradley, May 10, 1893

Mrs. Agnes Bradley Rogers, May 10, 1893

Willis F.M. Edwards, May 10, 1893

Hattie Edwards, May 10, 1893

Mrs. Ida ...

St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Complex

When Poste du Rapides was established in Pineville the Catholic mission of St. Louis des Apalachees was founded. Mass was said in private homes in the new town of Alexandria. A chapel built in 1817 was the first church of ...

Tuscumbia's Oakwood Cemetery

This burial ground was designated on General John Coffee's 1817 survey and original map "Plan of a Town at the Coldwater Spring." The oldest tombstone carries the burial date 1821 and the cemetery contains graves of veterans from all wars ...

Andrew Jackson's Military Road

-1817-

Construction of this road, as ordered by General Andrew Jackson, began in May 1817 by troops of the U.S. Army for national defense purposes. Beginning near Nashville, Tennessee and continuing to Madison, Louisiana, it shortened the distance from Nashville to ...

Le Sieur Christophe Anne Poulain Du Bignon

(1739- 1825)

Horton - Du Bignon House

Du Bignon Burial Ground

Beginning with Poulain du Bignon, five du Bignon generations made Jekyll Island one of Georgia`s most romantic Golden Isles. This tabby ruin and burial ground alone remain from Jekyll Island's century (1794-1886) ...