Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church

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The Washington Monument, Baltimore. This view of Mount Vernon Place, circa 1848, shows the home of Charles and Phoebe Key Howard ot the right of the monument.

Conceived as a "Cathedral of Methodism" the Mount Vernon Place United ...

Garcés Footbridge

Memorial to Francisco Garcés, explorer and first Franciscan missionary to the Pima village at the foot of Sentinel Peak. In 1770 Garcés and the Pimas constructed at that site the first substantial building in Tucson, a mission residence with two ...

The Old Record Building

70 feet south of this point was erected, 1820, the old "Record Building," designed by Robert Mills (1871-1855), famous Charleston architect, designer of the Washington Monument. This building of classic design was county courthouse until 1855; then Record Building until ...

Phelps Dodge Hidalgo Smelter

This 850-pound copper anode was one of the last anodes produced at the Phelps Dodge Hidalgo Smelter in Hidalgo County, New Mexico from copper concentrate produced at the Morenci Mine in Arizona. The Hidalgo Smelter operated from 1976 to 1999.

Donated ...

Sannoner Historic District

Named for Ferdinand Sannoner, who surveyed the town of Florence for the Cypress Land Company in 1818, the district contains twenty-five structures on North Court and North Pine Streets. Wealth planters, lawyers and merchants occupied the six fine antebellum homes:

Courtview ...

The Old Church

Cottrell Village

Built - 1850

Restored 1989 by the

John Cottrell Foundation

Marker is on East Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Birthplace of George Peabody

Birthplace

of

George Peabody

February, 18, 1795

Placed by The

Peabody Historical Society

June 16, 1902

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Street and Dane Street, on the left when traveling east on Washington Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Vernon Historic District

Side 'One':

Vernon platted 1815. Jennings County formed by Indiana General Assembly 1817; Vernon named county seat 1817. Madison-Indianapolis Railroad reached Vernon 1839; masonry arch, elevating track over Pike Street, remains. Vernon still operates under its amended 1851 incorporation by General ...

Holy Rosary Cathedral

Near here in 1820 the first Catholic Church in Tennessee was built by Irish Catholic workers then building a bridge over Cumberland River. In 1830 a brick structure known as Holy Rosary Cathedral succeeded the frame building. Here Bishop R. ...

El Paso & Southwestern Depot and Park

Th El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, originally owned by the Phelps Dodge Company, was extended from El Paso into Tucson in the fall of 1912. The handsome depot of classical design, featuring a large rotunda with a stained glass dome, ...