view gallery |  Ash Fork, Arizona
in American Guide Series Ash Fork is named after a nearby creek with the same name. The creek begins where several tributaries join in a thicket of Arizona Ash trees. posted by: rjmcdonough1 location: Arizona date approved: 05/26/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Peach Springs, AZ
in American Guide Series Peach Springs is a census-designated place straddling U.S. Route 66 in northwestern Arizona. posted by: rjmcdonough1 location: Arizona date approved: 05/25/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Masonic Temple - Detroit, MI
in American Guide Series Built in 1926, the Detroit Masonic Temple is the largest Masonic Temple in the world. posted by: bobfrapples8 location: Michigan date approved: 05/19/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Randolph, AZ
in American Guide Series Randolph is a populated place in south central Arizona. posted by: rjmcdonough1 location: Arizona date approved: 05/01/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Bridger, Montana
in American Guide Series Named for legendary fur trader, mountain man and guide, Jim Bridger, the little town of Bridger, Montana was once bigger, though not by much and today has a population little different from that of a century ago. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 04/22/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Harlowton, Montana
in American Guide Series Established in 1881, Harlowton was originally named Merino, only becoming Harlowton with the arrival of the "Jawbone Line" railroad in 1900. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 04/22/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  DEEP RIVER (town Hall) - Deep River CT
in American Guide Series This building was constructed as a replacement in 1893, with town offices on the ground floor, and an auditorium space on the upper floors. It is an unusually large structure for an otherwise relatively rural community. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/22/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Congregational Church - Essex CT
in American Guide Series The Centerbrook Congregational Church, also known as the Centerbrook Meeting House. The main block was built in 1790, making it the oldest known church in Middlesex County and one of the oldest in the entire state. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/22/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  UNCASVILLE (Town Hall) - Montville CT
in American Guide Series The Uncasville School is a historic school building was built during 1917-1918. The building now houses town offices. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/20/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Peck Tavern - Old Lyme CT
in American Guide Series Peck Tavern may incorporate elements of a 17th-century structure which was known to stand hear about 1680. The main block probably achieved its present form about 1769, when the property was purchased by John Peck. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/17/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Repertory Theater - Ivoryton CT
in American Guide Series Comstock-Cheney Hall, also known as Ivoryton Playhouse. Construction began in 1910 and was completed 1911 as a recreation hall for the Comstock-Cheney factory. The theatre is the first self-supporting summer theatre in the United States. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/17/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  FORTY FORT MEETINGHOUSE - Forty Fort, PA
in American Guide Series Forty Fort Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house at River Street and Wyoming Avenue in the Old Forty Fort Cemetery in Forty Fort, PA. It was built in 1806–08 in a New England meeting house style with white clapboard siding. posted by: nomadwillie location: Pennsylvania date approved: 03/09/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Congregational Church - Cheshire CT
in American Guide Series The First Congregational Church of Cheshire was built in 1827, it was designed by David Hoadley and is a prominent local example of Federal period architecture. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/09/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Grass Range, Montana
in American Guide Series Today not a very big town, Grass Range is actually a hamlet of about 110 rugged individualists. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 03/08/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Big Timber, MT
in American Guide Series The county seat of Sweet Grass county, Big Timber has grown smaller since its heydays of the late 1800s, but it's not going away anytime soon. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 03/08/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Glacier National Park - MT, USA
in American Guide Series A World Heritage Site, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and an International Peace Park, Glacier National Park is unique in the world, a wonderland of nature unexcelled in the country. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 03/08/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Triple Divide Peak - Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
in American Guide Series This marker points out one of the few places in North America from which water will flow to three distinct and widely separated destinations. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 03/08/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  St. Mary Lake - Glacier National Park, MT
in American Guide Series The first of many mountain glacial lakes one will encounter on entering Glacier National Park from the east gate is St. Mary Lake, the second largest of the park's lakes, after Lake McDonald. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 03/08/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Going-to-the-Sun Road - Glacier National Park, MT
in American Guide Series Wending its way through Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road was built by the National Park Service over the course of 11 years. posted by: T0SHEA location: Montana date approved: 03/08/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Cheshire Academy - Cheshire CT
in American Guide Series Bowden Hall was built in 1796 and Bronson Hall was built in 1867. Bowden Hall was the first building erected for Chesire Academy. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/04/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Town Hall - Cheshire CT
in American Guide Series The Cheshire Town Hall across the green from the church is a large brick building constructed just before the Civil War; it remains in use as a town hall. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/02/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Abijah Beach Tavern - Cheshire CT
in American Guide Series Different sources indicate two different dates for the construction of the Abijah Beach Tavern in Cheshire: 1750 and 1814. The Tavern is a contributing building to the Cheshire Historic District. posted by: nomadwillie location: Connecticut date approved: 03/02/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Tower and Summer Home - Lancaster, NH
in American Guide Series The auto road was built in 1912, as was the main house. Weeks was a driving force in the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911. posted by: nomadwillie location: New Hampshire date approved: 02/19/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  IRASBURG (Town Hall) - Irasburg VT
in American Guide Series The town is a down to earth, no-nonsense kind of place. Population is around 1200 versus 924 in 1937. The town doesn't look like it changed much since the AGS description. posted by: nomadwillie location: Vermont date approved: 02/18/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery |  People's Academy building - Morrisville, VT
in American Guide Series The property and initial building for the Peoples Academy were made by a donation by Alexander Hamilton Copley, a Lamoille County native who had made a fortune as a pharmaceutical businessman in Boston, Massachusetts posted by: nomadwillie location: Vermont date approved: 02/16/2023 last visited: never |
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