Empress Hotel

L’Hotel Empress

[English]

This hotel was built between 1904 and 1908, and has since been enlarged twice. The architect, Francis M. Rattenbury, followed the practice of the Canadian Pacific Railway in employing the Chateau style, identifiable by the steep slate roof and ...

In Memory of Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the "Kansas City

June 17, 1933

RAYMOND J. CAFFREY

Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

OTTO REED

Chief of Police, McAlester, Oklahoma

WILLIAM J. GROOMS

Detective, Kansas City Missouri Police Department

FRANK HERMANSON

Detective, Kansas City Missouri Police Department

Near this location the ...

St. Paul's United Methodist Church

A Methodist circuit rider, with the aid of early settlers in Eau Gallie, erected a small mission cut out of logs on the north bank of Horse Creek. It was finished with a puncheon floor. Travel to the services was ...

The Cemetery

(Left Side)The Cemetery

The Union Cemetery was incorporated by the State of Missouri November 9, 1857 and the first interment was made in 1858. Many of the graves have been removed from earlier burying grounds whose capacities had been reduced ...

Port Bolivar

Surveyor Samuel D. Parr claimed a

league of land extending 5 miles

eastward from Point Bolivar and in

1838 became the area's first

permanent settler. That year

developers Archibald Wynn and

William Lawrence purchased about

1000 acres of Parr's land ...

Old Eau Gallie Post Office and Surrounding Area

This building was the Eau Gallie Post Office circa 1900-1925. Before the advent of automobiles, old-timers recall tying their horses and buggies to the big oak tree in the back.

The building just south of the Post Office was Eau ...

Drew Mansion Site / The Town of Ellaville

[Front]

Drew Mansion Site

Located approximately one-half mile to the northwest is the site of the Drew Mansion, home of George F. Drew, governor of Florida during the difficult period of readjustment following Civil War Reconstruction, 1877-1881. Built in the late 1860's, ...

Roberts Bridge

1829

Ohio's oldest and only standing double-barreled covered bridge and the oldest of six remaining in the nation.

Built by Orlistus Roberts and James Campbell over Seven Mile Creek on Old Camden Pike South of Eaton.

Relocated and restored in 1991 through the ...

Orange Korean War Memorial

“We shall pay any price,

bear any burden, meet

any hardship, support

any friend, oppose

any foe to assure

the survival of Liberty.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Korean War

1950 – 1955

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Hickory Street, on the right when traveling east ...

Orange World War II Memorial

Dedicated to the sacred

memory of the valiant

men and women of Orange

who made the supreme

sacrifice in the defense

of their country

World War II

1941 – 1946

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Hickory Street, on the right when traveling east on ...