Colored Department of the City Hospital / Doctors and Nurses

Colored Department of the City Hospital

The first City Hospital, c. 1841, was located on the South Commons. Called “the Pest House,” its clients were charity patients. The second City Hospital, c. 1894, was built across from Linwood Cemetery. Architectural details ...

105 North Broadway

Local physician Dr. Samuel Souders owned this commercial lot in 1909 when Dan Davis, an advocate for the construction of a fancy opera house, proposed it for the construction of his vision. The newspapers reported weekly for several months on ...

East Florence Historic District

The East Florence business area began in the industrial boom of the 1880s and 1890s and continued its development through the 1920s. Originally known as "Sweetwater", the small locally owned firms were established to serve the growing population employed in ...

The National Road / The Interurban Electric Railway

The National Road

To George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and others, a road to the Ohio Country was essential for the United States’ development. An overland route was the way west for settlers and goods, as well as a means to transport ...

First Brick Building in Colfax

Erected 1865

By

R.S. Egbert & Wm. Wallace

of Illinoistown

as a General Merchandise Store

Present Owners:

David & Margaret Marson

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and Grass Valley Street on North Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

USS New Jersey Marine Detachments

Dedicated to the memory of the Marines

of the Marine Detachments that served

aboard the USS New Jersey from 1942–1991

Sember Fidelis

Marker is on 1 Riverside Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Robert Sengstacke Abbott Boyhood Home

Founder of the Chicago Defender

From 1878 to 1889, Robert Sengstacke Abbott lived in the parsonage of Pilgrim Congregational Church, once located on this site. His stepfather John H. H. Sengstacke, minister of the church, published the Woodville Times. Abbott learned ...

Thomas Jones Hardeman

Born in Tennessee

January 31, 1788

Died in Bastrop County, Texas

January 11, 1854.

His wife

Eliza De Witt Hardeman

Born Sept. 17, 1809

Died Feb. 8, 1863.

Back of Headstone

Member Second Congress

Republic of Texas;

Chief Justice of Bastrop County

Member of the State Legislature

Most Worshipful ...

James Wood Coffroth

Here on November 29, 1858, was held the celebration in honor of the completion of the Columbia and Stanislaus River Water Company's ditch, which brought water from the north fork of the Stanislaus River to Columbia. James Wood Coffroth, attorney, ...

Preacher Smith of Deadwood Gulch

"Deadwood's Sky Pilot." Henry Weston Smith, was born in Ellington, Connecticut, January 110, 1828. At 23 he became a Methodist exhorter. This led to ordination in the Methodist Episcopal church and he served various communities in New England. In 1862 ...