Old Town Hall & Masonic Temple

The village of Lexington and the local Masonic Lodge combined their efforts and finances to build this three-story Italianate structure in 1876. The village owned the first two floors (the fire department and the opera house); the Masons, the third ...

Old Town San Diego

Settled by pensioned soldiers from the presidio and their families, Old Town grew into a cluster of adobe houses and garden plots in the early 1800s. By 1835, "it was composed of about 40 dark brown looking huts." The Stars ...

Olde Towne Portsmouth

Southern Architectural Splendor

The one square block his­toric dis­trict before you is Portsmouth’s Olde Towne. The dis­trict dates to 1752 when Portsmouth was founded by William Craw­ford. Olde Towne con­tains one of the largest col­lec­tions of historic build­ings in Vir­ginia fea­tur­ing ...

Old Moraga Townsite

Named for Joaquin Moraga, who in 1835 was granted 13,000 acres from the Mexican government and established Rancho Laguna de Los Palos Colorados. A Moraga townsite was conceived by A.A. Grant and J.A. Williamson in 1894. James Irvine purchased a ...

Madison Township Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building

Erected 1888

In memory of

the Soldiers-Sailors and the Marines of all wars

First Board of Trustees

Eckles McCoy •

Huntington Brown •

Abraham G. Cummins •

James H. Herring •

Norman M. Wolfe

Appointed by Manuel May Judge Court of Common Pleas

Marker is on ...

Old Town Historic District

Designated by the City of Huntsville, Alabama on December 12, 1974 as a Huntsville historic district, it contains houses dating from 1828 onward with the majority dating from 1880 to 1929. Approximate boundaries:

East Clinton Avenue north to Walker Avenue; ...

Old Town Irvine

The townsite began in 1887 with the arrival of the AT&SF RR. James Irvine II chose this site to be the shipping center for crops grown on the Irvine Ranch, due to its high elevation. Original buildings remaining include the ...

A Soldier Town

For travelers arriving on the Santa Fe Trail, Fort Larned must have looked more like a small town than a fortified place. In the early years, about 150 soldiers lived here in the summers. During the Indian Wars, as ...

Old Tugaloo Town

North of this marker, in the center of the lake, once stood an important Indian town. The area now marked by a small island was settled around 500 A.D. and occupied by Cherokee Indians around 1450. Traders were coming to ...