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John Colter Rock MO663
Mountain man Member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition MONTANA Displayed inside the Colter Shelter.] So how did a granite boulder from Montana wind up in the John Colter memorial Shelter in new Haven? The story of the rock is an interesting sidelight in what's been a project of interesting stories. David Menke, who organized the Colter project, said the original design for the Shelter included a rock column with a plaque on top. But when workers had finished the shelter, the idea came up to put a large boulder at the center of the shelter instead. As Menke says, the next problem was where to get the right rock. Most of the rock in this area is sedimentary and wouldn't work right for the Shelter. One day while standing in the shelter, looking out over the river, Menke and others had the idea to try to get a rock from the Yellowstone region, where Colter had lived and explored. But how would you get such a rock, and how would you get it here? Menke drove to Bockting Truck, which runs routes of the northwest, and told him about the idea. Dave Bockting was glad to help. "Before I had hardly completed my story, Dave said 'you and a rock and I'll haul it here fro you,'" Menke said. So Menke had a truck, but now he needed a rock. Menke then thought of a couple from Montana he had met during the spring. The couple, Phyllis Friesz of Billings and Jim Meade of Great Falls, had visited to discuss the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and in particular John Colter. Jim is an interpreter at the Lewis and Clark Visitors Center in Great Falls, where he details the life of Colter to visitors. After their visit, which included a trip to the Arch in St. Louis, Jim and Phyllis wrote back to say that New Haven was the "highlight of their trip." So Menke made some phone calls and it turned out, Phyllis' son-in-law is a masonry contractor. Phyllis called back the next day and said she was trying to find a rock in the Billings area. "She took it as a personal challenge," Menke says. "Could she find a rock and have it transported to New Haven before Millers Landing Days, which was then only three weeks away." oon she and others were scouring the mountains for the right rock. Stone masons had told them what kind of rock and texture to look for, and they found several that were suitable. "They had difficulty making the final decision," Menke says. The boulder came from the Stillwater drainage of the Yellowstone River, near the small community of Nye, Montana, according to an email from Phyllis. The area is just a few miles from the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Boundary in the Beartooth mountain range of the Rocky Mountains. A nearby wilderness trail leads to the top of the Beartooth mountains, with access to Yellowstone Park. As Phyllis puts it, "it seemed like just the right place to get the John Colter rock." Once the rock was chosen, it was taken to a monument company where it was inscribed. From there it went back to Phyllis' son-in-law's brickyard, where it was wrapped and crated for shipping. Arrangements were made with Dave Bockting to have a truck driver, Hank Hoerstkamp, pick up the rock at the brickyard loading dock. Hoerstkamp loaded the rock in Billings on August 29 and drove it 300 miles, arriving here on Sunday, August 31. The rock was unloaded Tuesday, Sept. 2, with the help of Lee Gildehaus and Tom Kuhlmann. The rock was loaded on a Bobcat and placed in the memorial. The inscription reads "John Colter, Mountain Man, Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Montana, 2003." Afterward, Menke called Phyllis and told her the job was completed. "Her voice resonated with relief and joy," Menke says. "Her Montana 'Pet Rock' was now resting securely in the John Colter Memorial in new Haven, Missouri." And it all came free of charge, as a gift "from the people of Montana," and from the one's who made it happen. Menke said several people deserve acknowledgement and thanks for their efforts, including Phyllis Friesz and Jim Meade, (who each made cash donations); Gerald Hill Masonry (who helped pick out the rock); Teyler Enterprises (which helped pay for the rock and moved it to the monument company); Billings Monument Company (which donated more than half of the cost of engraving); and Hill Masonry Inc. (Phyllis' daughter and son-in-law, who helped manage the project.)
Coggin Academy - McClelland Library TX12157
The oldest "Educational Building" in constant use in Texas, built by Modie and S.R. Coggin, it was opened in 1876 as Coggin Academy. It became Daniel Baker College in 1889, being used for classrooms and home for Dr. B.T. McClelland, founder of Daniel Baker College. During this building's existence it has served as an elementary school, high school, dormitory, science hall, and library.
Heritage of Caledonia Missouri MO214
Bellevue lies between Ozark spurs. Buford Mountain on east second highest in Missouri, named for William Buford. Came from Virginian 1810. Name carried on in Valley. First people mound-builders, then Indians. French named Bellevue Valley in 1763. First settler William Reed from Tennessee 1798. Town began with Tom Sloans blacksmith shop. Alexander Craighead named town for New Caledonia, Scotland, platted it, and bought first lot. He built first store onto his home 1818, standing remodeled 1966. Robert Sloan built first home. Industries, Rocky Hollow Cheese factory, Harvey B. Casey flouring mill 1875 and tanneries, Jacob Eversole, John Perry, and Martin Ruggles put in Springfield Iron Works Furnace Creek 1823-1842. Ox teams pulled wagons of pig iron to Ashenbraner & Smiths Cedar Creek Forge, near White farm. Dam gave power. First in state to produce Iron products May 1825. Forge Hill on East.
First school Round Log house Methodist Cemetery, Miles Goforth teacher, 1804. St. Louis conference built Bellevue Collegiate Institute 1870-1872 in front of Academy by stockholders 1867-68. William Woods formed Methodist Society 1810, built Shiloh Meeting House near school before 1814. Joseph Reed made deed to church 1818, firsts in Methodism west of Miss. Brick Methodist Church 1852. Burned 1909. Third church 1911. Thirty Scotch-Irish Presbyterians led by Wm. Sloan & Robert M. Stevenson held first sunrise service west of Miss. Dec 1, 1807; with Salmon Giddings formed church 1816. First west of Miss. Log House Presbyterian Cemetery. It Burned. Brick building replaced it. Frank Morrow deeded ground to town, church built 1864-68. Assembly of God organized - built 1963. Masonic Lodge Tyro No. 12 oldest in Missouri, organized 1825. Martin Ruggles first worshipful master. Lodge gave and dedicated his monument in Presbyterian Cemetery 1950, 1000 came. He was buried near brother, Comfort Ruggles, Boston Tea Party Patriot. O.E.S. No. 321 chartered 1912. Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Dent first worthy patron and matron. Civil War guerrillas vs Union Soldiers under Sgt. Warfield Sept. 14, 1864, were repulsed. On Sept. 29, 1864 Maj. Gen. Sterling Price sent Maj. Gen. Marmaduke's Div. After Brig. Gen. Ewing, who ran into Brig. Gen. Shelby's Div. here. Ewing fought a successful rear guard action. Retreated through Palmer. First Post Office 1826, John G. Bryan, P.M., Caledonia incorporated 1870, smallest town in state. Old homes - H. Long, Goody, Koontz, Vandiver, Byrd, Jane Thompson, Eversoles, Garr, Marburk, Ruggles, Grenshaw, Southall, Geo. Breckenridge-Revolutionary War Vet, Adella B. Moore - Historian
SUN.SCH,64,YRS. 1865-1929 BCI, SEC,25, YRS. JAMES H. RELFE, MARSHALL OF MISSOURI TERRITORY 1843
Buckingham Courthouse BCH2
Designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1821, burned in 1869, rebuilt in 1873. The exterior follows Jefferson’s plan with the interior redesigned. Copy of original plan and specifications on display in courthouse. Registered in 1969 as a National and Virginia Historic Landmark. Renovated in 1976. Appvd. by Buckingham Board of Supervisors 1977.
Buckingham Courthouse BCH1
Designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1821, burned in 1869, rebuilt in 1873. The exterior follows Jefferson’s plan with the interior redesigned. Copy of original plan and specifications on display in courthouse. Registered in 1969 as a National and Virginia Historic Landmark. Renovated in 1976.
Blanks Crossroads CC12
This intersection of the Old Main Road, or Ridgepath, and the road from Soanes Bridge to Kennons, derives its name from an eighteenth-century tavern owned by the Blanks family. Blanks Tavern was one of a few licensed ordinaries in colonial Charles City County. Other landmarks have included an Oldfield school, Manoah Baptist Church (1848-1933) and the first Methodist Meeting House (est. 1791), also known as Charles City Chapel. Prominent area homes have included Ballardsville and Sunnyside, the home of Charles City County physician Dr. Gideon Christian. Soldiers Rest, the home of Revolutionary War soldier Fighting Joe Christian, was also located in this vicinity. Area resident Lemuel E. Babcock was Charles City County’s delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1867 and William Page, a freedman, became a major landowner here in the years after the Civil War. Charles City County, Virginia
Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843-1931) WI125
Stephen Moulton Babcock came to the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1887 and remained until his death in 1931. His life was filled with a great eagerness to know and a persistent desire to serve. He is best known for the perfection of the butterfat test which bears his name. Yet great as was this development, it likely was far surpassed in significance to mankind by the solid foundation he laid for invaluable research by himself and others in the field of animal nutrition. This has repeatedly shown the importance of certain vitamins in animal and human diets. Professor Babcock won high rank among Wisconsin's and the nation's great scientists.
Bagdad Cemetery TX9030
Opened 1857 with burial of 3-year-old John Babcock, whose father Charles later gave tract to community. Other early burials were Civil War veteran John Haile and Col. C.C. Mason. Leander, founded 1882 when railroad bypassed Bagdad, shares use of this tract, enlarged in 1959 and 1966.
Bartlett Electric Cooperative TX313
Although the town of Bartlett had regular electric service by 1905, farmers in the surrounding rural area were not supplied with electricity until thirty years later. On May 11, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) as part of his New Deal emergency relief program. Designed to bring electricity to the rural areas of America, the REA also became a lending agency to help finance such projects. In 1935, the REA lent $33,000 to the Bartlett Community Light & Power Company. Later known as the Bartlett Electric Cooperative, the BCL&P built a 59-mile power line to serve the rural areas surrounding Bartlett. The first section of the line, which was to serve 110 farm homes, became operative in March 1936. Power was provided by the city's municipal light plant, which had been built two years earlier. As the first REA project in Texas and the first in the nation to be enegized under an REA loan, the Bartlett Electric Cooperative played an important role in the modernization of area farms.
Bataan Memorial Trainway TX11892
With the arrival of the railroads to El Paso in 1881, the train tracks marked the northern boundary of the city. As El Paso grew, the tracks divided downtown and created a time-consuming barrier for pedestrians and motorists. In the early 20th century, a trainway was proposed to place the city's main railroad tracks below street level. In 1948, eight major contractors and 22 subcontractors began work on the project. Robert E. McKee General Contractor did the largest portion of the work-regrading the railroad lines, digging the entire trench and laying new tracks. A significant work of civil engineering, the trainway cost $5,500,000 and took more than three years to complete. Over 4,500 gondola cars of dirt were excavated and eight bridges were built over the tracks. A 1,700-foot overpass across cotton street, several blocks east of the trainway, completed the project. The trainway was named in honor of prisoners of war who died in enemy camps during World War II. The name Bataan was chosen to honor those soldiers-both Filipino and American-captured by the Japanese Army after the fall of the Bataan Peninsula. Many of the American prisoners, including thousands from New Mexico and Texas, had trained at nearby Fort Bliss. The trainway was officially dedicated on August 21, 1950, and Southern Pacific's "Sunset Limited" became the first passenger train to operate on the newly completed trainway. With the completion of the Bataan Memorial Trainway, traffic flowed freely and safely through downtown, aiding the city's growth and prosperity. Display # 1 - 10 of 25 |