Old Cool Springs Cemetery

1840 - 1873

Site of Cool Springs Baptist Church, now First Baptist Church, organized in John Bostick Home, 1848. First log meeting house 1855-1867. First church and cemetery in settlement.

Marker is on Vance St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Duarte Garage

Built 1915

Service Station and Car Dealership

Situated on the Original Route

of the Lincoln Highway

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City of Livermore

Historic Preservation Site

Dedicated July 1996

Operated by

The Livermore Heritage Guild

Marker can be reached from Pine Street near L Street.

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Why is the Statue Green?

The answer is in the air.

The Statue’s skin is made of copper, and when copper is exposed to oxygen in the air, it undergoes a chemical reaction called oxidation. The reaction causes a fine crust or film to develop that ...

Livermore Southern Pacific Depot

This railroad station having been located about half a mile west of the old town of Laddsville, on land owned by Wm. M. Mendenhall. Established the location of the town Livermore. The first depot was a freight car that was ...

Seymour

High hills and deep valley – broad river and rocky falls.

In 1650 “Nawcatock”, an Indian village. Today the river bears the name.

In 1678, “Amaugsuck”, the fishing place where the waters pour down.

From 1738, Chusetown, after Chief Chuse, a scout ...

United Mine Workers of America Building

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

Associated with the American Labor Movement since the

1930's, this building served for over two decades as

organized ...

Electrical Engineering Milestone

First Central Station in South Carolina

The United States Electric Illuminating Company of Charleston started up South Carolina's first central station for incandescent electric lighting in this building October 1882 . This was just one month after Thomas Edison opened his ...

Civilian Conservation Corps

Camp Devil's Lake

In an effort to get the economy moving during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Federal Government initiated a number of work projects. One of these was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

The CCC was for ...

Building the Statue of Liberty

The French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty as a giant three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Over 300 thin sheets of copper, most of it from a copper mine in Karmoy, Norway, fit together to form the Statue’s outer ...

Livermore Town Hall Jail and Firehouse

[Upper Marker:]

Built 1875, this building was first a hotel then the Livermore Valley Bank. It was the Livermore Town Hall from 1905 to 1957. The jail was in the rear, and to the left the firehouse. It was here a ...