<p>The Ackerman–Boyd House is a historic stone house located at 1095 Franklin Lake Road in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built around 1785 to 1800 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>Johannes Louwrence Ackerman and his brother, Jacobus Louwrence Ackerman, purchased property here in 1727. James A. Ackerman built the house in the late 18th century. Adam Boyd purchased it in 1841 and likely expanded it.</p><br>
<p>The Ackerman–Dater House, also known as the Sampmill Farm, is located at 109 West Saddle River Road in the borough of Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1745 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission  and the Saddle River MPS.</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, Johannes Ackerman bought 245 acre here in 1745. He died in 1760. The main part of the house is dated from 1790 to 1800 based on architectural evidence. Maria Ackerman married Abraham Dater, who is listed as the owner in 1861 and 1876.</p><br>
<p>The Blackledge–Kearney House is located within the Palisades Interstate Park in the borough of Alpine in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built around 1750 and was documented as Cornwallis Headquarters by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1936. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1984, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission . Lord Cornwallis was believed to have used the house as a temporary headquarters during his crossing of the Hudson River  in 1776, but modern historians dispute this claim.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built at Closter Landing in the 1760s. Maria Blackledge, the daughter of Benjamin Blackledge lived in the house with her husband Daniel Van Sciver. The house was purchased in 1817 by James and Rachel Kearney. James died in 1831 and Rachel used the house as a tavern. The house was expanded to accommodate the tavern. In 1907 the house was purchased by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. The house was used as a police station for the park in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The park now uses the house as a museum known as Kearney House.</p><br>
<p>The Haring–Corning House is located in the borough of Rockleigh in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1741 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 1985, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original section of the house was built in 1741 by Abraham D. Haring. A large Dutch Colonial style addition was added to the house in 1828. Samuel B. Corning purchased the house in 1856. The businessman Jenkins Sloat purchased the house in 1870 and operated a sawmill on the property.</p><br>
<p>William L. Tait, the first mayor of Rockleigh, owned the house from 1913 to 1930. Tait added a wing to the house, a veranda and extended the central dormer. The Rose Haven School for girls used the house as living space from 1930 to 1983.</p><br>
<p>Ingles Ferry  is the site of a historic ferry crossing on the New River in western Virginia, near the city of Radford in Pulaski County, Virginia, United States. A tavern was opened there in 1772 and the ferry served soldiers and civilians until 1948. A bridge was built at the site in 1842 but was burned during the civil war. The tavern and replicas of the 18th-century home of the Ingles family can be seen nearby.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The ford was in use by Native Americans when Europeans arrived in the area, and initially was known as Eagle Bottom. William Ingles and his wife Mary Draper Ingles began developing a farm on the eastern side of the New River a few years after Mary&#39;s capture by Shawnee Indians and her subsequent escape in 1755. As early as 1760, William was making money ferrying troops across the New River during the Anglo-Cherokee War, During the first few years of its existence, Indians frequently attacked the farm and ferry,</p><br>
<h3>Tavern</h3><br>
<p>With the help of his brother-in-law John Draper, William completed construction of the Ingles Ferry Hill Tavern and blacksmith shop on the Pulaski County side of the river in 1772.</p><br>
<p>William Ingles was in charge of improving and maintaining the road leading to and from Ingles Ferry, known at the time as Ingles Ferry Road or English Ferry Road. It later became a main thoroughfare and was part of the Great Wagon Road and the Wilderness Road.</p><br>
<p>On 8 May 1779, Lord Henry Hamilton, a British prisoner of war, was being escorted under guard to Williamsburg and spent the night at the home of William and Mary Ingles. In his journal, Hamilton described the Ingles&#39; home:</p><br>
<p>By 1780, William Ingles owned 907 acres, 67 cattle, and ten slaves who ran his ferry and worked in his mills or in domestic capacities. Following his death in 1782, his son Thomas Ingles took over the operation of Ingles Ferry, in partnership with his brother John and his cousin Crockett. Mary Draper Ingles died at Ingles Ferry in 1815.</p><br>
<h3>Toll road</h3><br>
<p>After the American Revolutionary War, thousands of immigrants poured through the New River Valley on their way to the newly opened territories in Kentucky and Tennessee. At times, as many as 30 or 40 wagons and teams would spend the night at the ferry. In 1805 William&#39;s son John Ingles and Andrew Lewis Jr. sponsored a bill before the Virginia General Assembly authorizing the Allegheny Turnpike (now known as the Valley Pike), so that tolls could be collected to support the maintenance of the road and the ferry, "because the cost of maintaining the previous public road in good condition had proved too great a burden." The turnpike, which opened in 1809, was 25 feet wide and more than seven miles in length. A gate and toll house were built near Shawsville.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Ingles, grandson of William and Mary Draper Ingles, acquired the ferry in 1832. By 1834, an estimated 20,000 people were using the ferry annually, including slaves being transported westward. Geographer George William Featherstonhaugh observed a caravan of 300 slaves crossing the river at Ingles Ferry in 1834. In the 1830s, Thomas refurbished and enlarged the tavern, which is still standing, and built a ferry house. He and several others incorporated The Lafayette and Ingles Ferry Turnpike Company in 1839. The state of Virginia macadamized (paved) the road in 1840.</p><br>
<h3>The Ingles Bridge and later years</h3><br>
<p>On 9 May 1864, following the Battle of Cloyd&#39;s Mountain, the fleeing Confederate artillery crossed the New River on Ingles Bridge. The bridge was subsequently burned by Union forces, but the abutments on the west bank can still be seen. Ingles Ferry was the site of one of the final battles of the Civil War when, on 12 April 1865 (3 days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Virginia), a detachment of Union troops attempting to rejoin General George Stoneman skirmished with Confederate infantry. The troops had not yet received news of the surrender. In 1865, the Ingles Ferry was again put into operation and continued until 1939 when the last flat-bottom ferry boat sank with a load of coal. The ferry was briefly reactivated from 1944-1948. The 1840 ferry house remained in use until it was destroyed by fire in 1967.</p><br>
<p>A watercolor sketch by Lewis Miller dated 26 August 1859 depicts the covered Ingles Bridge and the Ingles farm next to the tavern, as seen from Lovely Mount.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>A historical marker was placed in 2022 at the intersection of West Main Street and Wilderness Road. A second historical marker at the intersection of Rock Road and Tyler Avenue, erected in 1998 by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, describes Ingles Ferry Road.</p><br>
<p>The Ratcliffe Mound  is a Native American mound in the southeastern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located in western Vinton County,</p><br>
<p>Unlike those of many Native American mounds, the identity of the Ratcliffe Mounds builders is unknown. Two cultures from the Woodland period, the Adena and Hopewell, built large numbers of mounds in southeastern Ohio, and the Adena are known to have built a group of six mounds in the Vinton County village of Zaleski, but the Ratcliffe Mound lacks features that enable archaeologists to identify its builders. Neither of these two cultures typically built mounds in locations such as that of the Ratcliffe, and no identifiable artifacts have been found in the vicinity of the mound, so no identification can be made in the mounds present state. Furthermore, no archaeological excavation has been conducted at the Ratcliffe Mound, so no artifacts have been recovered from it.</p><br>
<p>Despite the inability of archaeologists to classify the mound&#39;s origins, it is likely to be a valuable archaeological site if investigated. In recognition of its archaeological value, the Ratcliffe Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Mills County Courthouse, built in 1913, is an historic three-story Classical Revival-style courthouse building located at 1011 Fourth Street in Goldthwaite, Texas. Designed by San Antonio architect Henry Truman Phelps , it replaced the first courthouse built in 1890, which burned in 1912.</p><br>
<p>The three-story building, made of brick with a cast stone basement, is the most prominent building in Goldthwaite. On November 8, 2000, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Indian Grove is an archaeological site consisting of a grove of 72 mature Ponderosa Pine trees located within Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve in Saguache County, Colorado, near Mosca, Colorado. The grove is of interest because sections of the bark of some of the trees was peeled off in the early 19th century, probably by Utes.</p><br>
<p>Indian Grove Back-Country Campsite, located within the grove, is one of six back-country campsites on the Sand Ramp Trail, a hiking trail that skirts the dune field on the east and north giving access to the northern portion of the National Park and Preserve along Sand Creek. The camp site has a solar-composting toilet.</p><br>
<p>Ranney Bridge is a historic Pratt Pony Truss Bridge over the Ausable River at Keene Valley in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1902 and was built by the Canton Iron Bridge Company. It was originally located at the hamlet of New Russia and moved to its present site about 1925. It is 15 feet, 9 inches wide and spans 59 feet, 9 inches at roughly 7 feet, 4 inches above water level.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Wilmington Bridge is a historic concrete arch bridge over the Ausable River at Wilmington in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1934 and is an arch bridge faced with stone, 37 feet wide and spanning 160 feet  at roughly 24 feet, 8 inches above water level. The bridge is maintained by the New York State Department of Public Works.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The historic bridge was demolished in March 2015 and a new bridge built in its place.</p><br>
<p>Central Powerhouse, also known as the Town of Moriah Water Department Building, was a historic power station located at Witherbee in Essex County, New York, United States. It was built in 1902 and was a massive brick building with a steeply pitched gable roof. It consisted of a main block, four bays wide and seven bays long, with a two-stage, cast stone addition built in 1904–1905 as a transformer house and coal ash hopper. It was deeded to the Town of Moriah in 1962.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The building was demolished in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Adirondack Iron and Steel Company is a historic ironworks complex located at Tahawus in Essex County, New York. It consists of the remains of the "Upper Works" iron foundry that date back to 1826. Iron from the site was contaminated with titanium, which, together with its isolation, made for an unprofitable venture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Hope Furnace is a historic blast furnace in the southeastern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located along State Route 278, approximately 5 mi northeast of the village of Zaleski,</p><br>
<p>Like many other iron furnaces in southeastern Ohio, Hope Furnace was surrounded by a community of at least three hundred residents at its height. The production of iron and the supply of the materials required for iron smelting required a large number of workers, and during a furnace&#39;s years of operation, it was the center of a temporary community. No buildings from the community remain to the present day: when the furnace closed, the workers dispersed, and the buildings collapsed or were demolished.</p><br>
<p>Today, Hope Furnace is part of Lake Hope State Park. Because of its importance in local history, the furnace was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was the second place in Vinton County to be added to the Register, being preceded only by the Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Cairns–Whitten–Blauvelt House is a historic stone house located at 160 Ravine Avenue in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, United States. Built around 1770–1810 by Douglas Cairns, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>Joseph Whitten bought the property in 1784. James Blauvelt bought it in 1799. It stayed in the Blauvelt family until 1854, when Adam Van Orden bought it.</p><br>
<p>The Cruse–Hossington House is located at 301 Newtown Road in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1798 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission . The one and one-half story farmhouse was owned by F. C. Cruse in 1861 and by Richard Hossington in 1876 according to the nomination form.</p><br>
<p>The Helen Anderson House, also known as Jutenhoops, is a well preserved English Cottage Revival structure in Phoenix, Arizona. Characteristic of the style, the distinctive roof is composed of wood shingles and rolled eaves that simulate a thatch roof. It was originally built, around 1920, as a residence for Helen Anderson, the widow of insurance company organizer Carl H. Anderson. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "the outstanding example of English Cottage Revival architecture in Phoenix."</p><br>
<p>By 1982 it had been converted for commercial use.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The house is located at 149 W. McDowell Rd., on the southeast corner of its intersection with N. 3rd Ave., in the Encanto neighborhood of Phoenix, and is part of the historic Roosevelt Neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Huyler House is located on what is known as the Captain John Huyler Homestead at 50 County Road between Palisades Avenue and Crest Drive North in Cresskill, Bergen County, New Jersey. In 1776, the property was part of a 180 acre farm which belonged to Loyalist John Ackerson or Eckerson. It was confiscated in 1779 because of Ackersons loyalty to the British, and sold in 1784 to Captain John Huyler of the local militia. Huylers son Peter built the main wing of the current house in 1836, according to the date stone over the door, with what was described by the Bergen County Stone House Survey as "some of the finest stonework in Bergen County". The outbuilding was most probably a summer kitchen, with quarters for slaves.</p><br>
<p>Records show that by 1876, the site was owned by George Huyler, and in 1912 by his estate.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1980, and to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Paulison-Christie House is located in Ridgefield Park, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1775 by John Paulison who owned 150 acres in what was then known as "Old Hackensack." John Paulison was a Tory during the Revolutionary War and was known to have sold cattle from his farm to the British army. He was declared by the New Jersey Council of Safety to be a "disaffected person" on July 11, 1777 and was arrested for his suspected Tory sympathies. He spent months confined to the jail in Morristown, being freed in a prisoner exchange in New York City.</p><br>
<p>In 1779, the farm was raided by the British, who made no distinction between patriots and Torys in such instances. In 1826, John Paulison&#39;s son, Paul Paulison, inherited the house. In 1844, David Christie purchased the property for his son Albert Brinkerhoff Christie. The farmhouse remained in the Christie family for 140 years.</p><br>
<p>Westervelt House is located in Tenafly, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The south wing of the house was built in 1745 by Roelof Westervelt whose grandfather purchased the property in 1695. The central section of the house was added in 1798 and later in 1825 the north wing was added. Ownership of the house remained in the hands of the Westervelt family until 1923. It serves as the oldest standing building in Tenafly. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Kings Highway North Historic District is a predominantly residential 58 acre historic district in Westport, Connecticut. Located on the hillside west of the Saugatuck River, this area encapsulates architecturally several major stages in the community&#39;s development, from colonial days to the 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kings Highway North Historic District is located west of Westport&#39;s downtown area, just upland from the west bank of the Saugatuck River. Its focus is a 2/3-mile stretch of Kings Highway North, a roadway first laid out in 1672 to facilitate travel between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts. It also extends along minor roads connecting this road section to the Boston Post Road (here United States Route 1), which runs nearer the river bank. In 1998, it included 106 contributing buildings including The Barn at Kings Highway, and four other contributing sites.</p><br>
<p>The districts architecture is main residential, and is reflective of three major episodes in Westport history. The first is its colonial beginnings in the 18th century, reflected in the presence of early cemeteries, a small common area used historically as a militia training ground, and several 18th-century houses. The second historic period is the 19th-century growth of Westports west side as a center of maritime commerce, represented by mid-century Greek Revival architecture. Late in the 19th century and into the early 20th century, Westport saw an influx of artists, some of whom resided in this area, either building new homes or refashioning existing buildings into then-popular styles.</p><br>
<p>The Marvin Tavern, also known as Matthew Marvin House, is a historic house located at 405 Danbury Road in Wilton, Connecticut, Located adjacent to Wilton High School. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and a large central chimney. Although it was built c. 1760, its most prominent feature is its porch, added c. 1880, which features turned posts, a spindled frieze, and decorative jigsawn brackets. It is also of interest to architectural historians for a number of features, including its flared eaves, which were rare in the region before the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Essex County Fairgrounds is a historic county fair located at Westport in Essex County, New York. The fairgrounds include 15 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and seven contributing structures. Four of these, the Grandstand, Judge&#39;s Stand, Floral Hall, and Racetrack, were among the original resources on the site when the fair opened in 1885. The Cooperative Extension Building was built about 1923 and is a two-story, rectangular, Colonial Revival style building with an octagonal cupola.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Wellscroft is a historic estate complex located at Upper Jay in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1903 and is a large and distinguished Tudor Revival–style summer estate home. It is a long, -story, rectangular-shaped building with several projecting bays, porches, gables and dormers, a porte cochere and a service wing. The rear facade features a large semi-circular projection. The first-story exterior is faced in native fieldstone. The interior features a number of Arts and Crafts style design features. Also on the property are a power house, fire house, gazebo, root cellar, reservoir, ruins of the caretaker&#39;s house and carriage house, and the remains of the landscaped grounds.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Essex County Home and Farm, also known as Whallonsburg County Home and Infirmary, is a historic almshouse and infirmary located at Whallonsburg in Essex County, New York. The property include seven contributing buildings and one contributing site. The core of the complex is a homogeneous cluster of four brick buildings on fieldstone foundations. The largest is the Home Building, a 2-story dormitory originally constructed in 1860. Located nearby are a milk house and dining / kitchen building. The -story infirmary building was built in 1899. Farm buildings include an equipment shed / garage, dairy barn, and hog-chicken house. Also on the property is the institution&#39;s cemetery site. The home and infirmary ceased operation in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>at Abandoned: Historical perspective with accompanying exterior and interior photographs</p><br>
<p>Hand–Hale Historic District is a national historic district located at Elizabethtown in Essex County, New York. The district contains seven contributing buildings. It encompasses the Hand House and Law Office, the Hale House and Law Office, and dependencies associated with both properties.</p><br>
<p>The Hand House is an elegantly formal, two-story Greek Revival style dwelling built in 1849. The Hand Law Office was built before 1830 as a modest frame building and enlarged in 1865 with a brick addition.</p><br>
<p>The Hale House was built originally in 1814 and modified extensively in the 1850 to 1870 period. It is a rambling, two-story frame dwelling. The Hale Law Office is a modest, one-story gable-roofed structure with a portico. The remaining buildings are a garage, Hale Barn Complex, and caretaker&#39;s cottage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Essex Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Essex in Essex County, New York. The district contains 150 contributing buildings. It encompasses the historic core of the hamlet of Essex and primarily contains early-19th-century buildings. The predominant building materials are clapboarded wood frame, brick, and stone and none of the buildings exceed stories in height. The oldest documented structure is Dower House, built prior to 1793. Other notable buildings include Wright&#39;s Inn , Essex Free Library , and "Hickory Hill" , "Rosslyn" , the "Old Brick Schoolhouse" , and "Greystone" .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Ironville Historic District is a national historic district located at Ironville in Essex County, New York. The district contains 12 contributing buildings. It encompasses the area associated with a once thriving iron works. Almost nothing remains of the iron works itself. The remaining buildings consists of modest wooden dwellings including the Penfield Homestead , boarding house , Congregational Church , commercial building / grange hall , and cemetery. Ironville is known as the "Birthplace of the Electrical Age", being the site of the first industrial application of electricity in the United States.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Democrat Building is a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2020 it was included as a contributing property in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District. The historic newspaper building is now an apartment building known as The Democrat Lofts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Democrat Building was designed by a prominent Davenport architecture firm of Clausen & Kruse, and it was built in 1923. The firm also designed other historic buildings in Davenport including the Forrest Block, which is next door to the south, the Hibernia Hall, which is next door to the north, the Scott County Savings Bank, Davenport Municipal Stadium (now Modern Woodmen Park), The Linograph Company Building, and the W.D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion in LeClaire Park.</p><br>
<p>The building was built for a local newspaper the Davenport Democrat, which was started in 1848 as the Democratic Banner. Its editorial philosophy was in keeping with that of the political party of the same name. Over the years the paper purchased the Gazette (1887) and the Evening Leader (1902).</p><br>
<p>The paper was eventually bought by Lee Enterprises, which published the Daily Times. The merged newspapers became the Times-Democrat and is now known as the Quad-City Times. The building was sold to The Catholic Messenger, the newspaper for the Diocese of Davenport, in 1956. The building served as their headquarters for a couple of decades. The building also housed a dog training school, a vacuum cleaner salesroom, a dance hall and a specialty store. In 2014, a $6 million renovation turned the building into 21 apartments.</p><br>
<p>The building is considered significant because of its association with newspapers in Davenport, and as an example of the local influence of Louis Sullivan, whose work figures prominently in the history of American architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-storied, freestanding, brick structure with concrete block facing was designed by Davenport architect Rudolph J. Clausen. A historical survey in 1983 indicated that the building utilizes steel in its construction. It was completed for about $300,000. These influences are seen in the blocking of windows at the center of the highly geometric façade. The ornamentation of the horizontal band between stories, over the entrances, and along the parapet wall all feature the stylized motifs that are commonly found in his work.</p><br>
<p>Highland Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 21 contributing buildings and one contributing object. It includes 17 private, single-family homes built between 1896 and 1930; most include "cure cottage" features.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Amherst Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Ticonderoga, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 16 contributing buildings on ten properties; 10 houses and six garages. It includes single-family homes built between 1921 and 1923 by W.A. Gale for the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company as rental properties for company management. Gale also constructed the houses in the Lake George Avenue Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Lake George Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Ticonderoga, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 20 contributing buildings on 14 properties; 12 houses and eight garages. It includes single-family homes built between 1919 and 1921 by W.A. Gale for the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company as rental properties for company management. The houses share a common American Craftsman influenced bungalow style. Gale also constructed the houses in the Amherst Avenue Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Joseph Church and Shrine is a historic district located at 8742 USA Route 12 in the Irish Hills region in rural Cambridge Township in Lenawee County, Michigan. The district was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on April 19, 1990, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church traces its origins to its founding as a missionary church in 1854 by the area&#39;s earliest Irish settlers. Irish Catholics had trickled into the area beginning in the 1830s, and they met in private homes for occasional mass. By 1852, a large enough number were in the area that a church was needed, and Humphrey and Ann Agan, and Martin Kelly deeded the site on which this church stands to the Bishop of Detroit. Work on the church itself commenced in 1854, and continued on and off until 1862. Originally, the church was a very simple fieldstone church with no exterior adornments.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s tower, sacristy, and stained glass windows were added in 1911. A new roof, transept, and sanctuary were added in 1928. In 1932, the shrine was completed under the supervision of Hispanic architects Leo Ouelette, Dionicio Rodriguez, and Ralph Corona. The first resident priest of the church arrived in 1954. and the church continues to function as a Catholic church.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district consists of a church edifice and a shrine. The district also consists of a cemetery with graves dating back to the 1850s. The church is a fieldstone cruciform-plan structure with a hip roof. A square-plan, hip-roof bell tower at the front contains an entry vestibule. Both the church and tower are topped with a red ceramic tile roof. A 1954 addition is located in one corner of the church.</p><br>
<p>Camp Dudley Road Historic District is a national historic district located at Westport, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 131 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure. It consists of an agricultural landscape and includes late-19th and early-20th century seasonal developments. Among the buildings are vernacular farmhouses in a variety of styles, barn complexes, a stone schoolhouse built in 1816, Skenewood Estate, the Stable Inn properties, Germain property, "Kenjockety," and Barbers Point Lighthouse. Camp Dudley, the oldest continuing boys camp is located on a 250 acre parcel in the southern part of the district.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Sheldon–Owens Farm is a national historic district located at Willsboro in Essex County, New York. The district contains seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and seven contributing structures. They are set on a property assembled between 1784 and 1945. The oldest structure is a barn dated to the late 18th century. A number of the outbuildings date to the 1830s and include barns, a granary, brick smokehouse, and sugar house. The farmhouse dates to 1853 and was constructed on the foundation of the 18th-century house. Dated to the early 20th century are a storage shed, machine shed, well house, and additions and renovations to older buildings. The property has been adapted for use as a bird sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Willsboro School is a historic school building located at Willsboro in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1927 and is a three-story red brick building designed in the Neoclassical style in accordance with New York State&#39;s standardized school design guidelines of the early 20th century. The 1927 buildings is 130 ft wide and 60 ft deep and has approximately 24,000 ft&sup2; of space. An addition was completed in 1952. It is 90 ft by 56 ft and contains approximately 15,000 ft&sup2; of space. It closed in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The former Willsboro School was rescued from the threat of demolition by developer Eli Schwartzberg who established its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010 to ensure the building&#39;s preservation. Schwartzberg then renovated and converted the building into the Champlain Valley Senior Community which opened in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Greenwell Store is a historic building now run as a museum by the Kona Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Nicholas Greenwell (1826–1891) was an English merchant who originally came to Hawaii in 1850. He went back to England in 1867, and returned and married Elizabeth Caroline Hall (1841–1934). They lived in a wooden house, (the foundation is still visible) and had a stone house built that was used as a store since 1870.</p><br>
<p>The building is a simple rectangle about 25 ft by 55 ft with a basement, main floor, and attic. Walls are 24 inch thick, made of stones with mortar.</p><br>
<p>Since Greenwell served as Postmaster, the town that grew up around the store was known as Kealakekua, Hawaii, even though the actual traditional land division of that name is further south. The Hawaii Belt Road now runs past the store.</p><br>
<p>Descendant Norman Leonard Greenwell (1926-1992) and his wife Jean Greenwell (1929–2009) were founders of the Kona Historical society in 1976.</p><br>
<p>On May 22, 1978, the store was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii as site 78001017. The society restored the former store to its appearance circa 1875, and opened it as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The store was added as site 10-37-7243 to the state of Hawaii registry of historic places on August 17, 1991.</p><br>
<p>Another nearby Greenwell property, the Kona Coffee Living History Farm, is also open for tours by the society.</p><br>
<p>Bryant Fleming House is a historic home located at Wyoming in Wyoming County, New York. It was built about 1850 and is a -story, two-by-three-bay cross-gabled vernacular Italianate-style cottage with a two-by-three-bay, 1-story rear wing. Another main building is a multi-purpose "playhouse" designed for large-scale entertaining and accommodation of overnight guests. The property includes notable landscape features that its principal owner, Bryant Fleming  designed and installed after he purchased the property about 1910. Also on the property is a small decorative pool with fountain, two sets of stone and concrete steps, a garden gate, and brick walls with gate posts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Hurricane Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Hurricane Mountain at Keene in Essex County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 35 ft, steel frame lookout tower erected in 1919, two trails leading up the 3,694 ft summit, and the ruins of a lean-to style observers cabin. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation to provide a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Park from the hazards of forest fires.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Adams Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Mount Adams at Newcomb in Essex County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 56 ft, steel frame lookout tower erected in 1917, a foot trail leading up the 3,250 foot summit, and the 1922 observers cabin with shed and privy. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation to provide a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Park from the hazards of forest fires.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Edgewater Farm is a historic farm property located at Willsboro Point in Essex County, New York. It contains four contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure. The main house, known as the Rowley house, is an early-19th-century residence, dated to about 1812 , with two earlier service wings from about 1796 and 1820. It consists of a rectangular, two-story, five-bay frame main block, with a two-stage ell consisting of a -story kitchen wing and -story shop / carriage barn. The main block features an elaborate Greek Revival–style entrance and portico. Also on the property are former farm outbuildings including a horse barn, a cow and hay barn, and a creamery. The property also includes a family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The steamboat Oakes Ames was built in 1868 by the Napoleon B Proctor Shipyard in Burlington, Vermont for the Rutland Railroad. The 244-foot paddle wheeler was designed to ferry railroad cars from Burlington across Lake Champlain to Plattsburgh, New York. She was named after one of the railroads directors Oakes Ames.</p><br>
<p>She successfully trialed on 19 August 1868 and her maiden excursion ran the next day to Willsboro Bay, Plattsburg. Mr. Ames went onward to Montreal for a review of the railroad&#39;s assets.</p><br>
<p>In 1874, the ship was renamed and repurposed for passenger service as the Champlain II.</p><br>
<p>The following year, on July 16, 1875, the ship was wrecked when it ran aground after drifting off course while being guided by a pilot under the influence of morphine. A salvage operation shortly afterwards removed much of the superstructure, leaving about a third of the wreck in place.</p><br>
<p>The site is now an archaeological site located in Lake Champlain near Westport in Essex County, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Henderson County Courthouse, also known as the Historic Henderson County Courthouse and the Old Henderson County Courthouse, is a historic 3-story brick gold-domed Classical Revival style courthouse building located at One Historic Courthouse Square, corner of 1st and Main streets in Hendersonville, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It is Henderson County&#39;s second courthouse and is adjacent to site of the 1840s courthouse which was razed upon its completion. Famed architect Frank Pierce Milburn was asked in 1903 to design the new courthouse, but the county commissioners rejected his design and instead hired Englishman Richard Sharp Smith, who was the resident architect of the Biltmore Estate after the death of Richard Morris Hunt in 1895. Construction by local builder W. F. Edwards began in 1904 and was completed in July, 1905.</p><br>
<p>The old courthouse was closed for renovations after the completion of a new courthouse at 200 North Grove Street in 1995. The restored 1905 courthouse currently houses the Henderson County Heritage Museum and some government offices.</p><br>
<p>On May 10, 1979, the Historic Henderson County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in the Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan B. Lattin Farm is a historic farm at 22 Walker Hill Road in Newtown, Connecticut. Founded by early colonial settlers to the area in the 18th century, it remains an example of a rural farm property in an increasingly suburbanized area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nathan Lattin Farm is located in a rural setting in southeastern Newtown, on 58 acre of land abutting the Halfway River, the town&#39;s border with Monroe. The property is now mostly wooded, and includes a farmhouse, a period icehouse, a 20th-century reproduction of an older barn, and the foundational remnants of other outbuildings. The farmhouse is a three-bay Colonial with a side-gable roof and a large central chimney, and is built on a fieldstone foundation. Its interior follows a typical center chimney plan, with a narrow entry hall, parlors to either side of the chimney, and the kitchen behind it. The chimney houses cooking fireplaces both in the kitchen and the basement; both feature beehive ovens made from stone, a departure from brick which is more usually found in these features. The house lacked modern amenities, including plumbing and electricity, until 1978.</p><br>
<p>The earliest documented colonial settlers of this area were the Lattins, whose name appear on a property listing in 1767. Construction methodology of the house suggests that it was built about 1750. The house is sited along what was once a major north–south road, and shows evidence of having been altered for use as an inn. The property was farmed by the Lattins until about 1897, when it was sold out of the family and adapted for use as a summer residence.</p><br>
<p>The Mianus River Railroad Bridge, also known as the Cos Cob Bridge, is a bascule drawbridge built in 1904 over the Mianus River, in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is operated by the Metro-North Railroad, successor to Conrail, Penn Central, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which erected it, and is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.</p><br>
<p>It is a rolling lift type moveable bridge, and was prefabricated by the American Bridge Company, to replace a previous unsafe bridge on the site. It has a total length of 1,059 ft, divided into 11 spans. Seven of these are deck truss spans, while the others are deck girder spans, all set on stone abutments. The main movable span is 107 ft long; four of the truss spans are 120 ft in length.</p><br>
<p>It is one of eight moveable bridges on the Northeast Corridor through Connecticut surveyed in one multiple property study in 1986. In November 2024, the Connecticut Department of Transportation was awarded a $6.4 million federal grant to "explore options for replacement" of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Strand Theater, now called the Strand Center Theatre, is a historic theater located at Plattsburgh in Clinton County, New York. It was built in 1924 as the premier theater in Plattsburgh and designed in the Classical Revival style. It consists of a vestibule, main lobby, mezzanine, auditorium, and stage with supporting spaces. It has seating for 950 people.</p><br>
<p>It was in continuous use as a movie theater until 2005, when it was purchased by the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts (NCCCA) with the goal of restoring it to its historic grandeur. This restoration took 10 years and $4 million to complete. In 2014 the NCCCA changed its legal name to The Strand Center for the Arts which includes this beautiful Strand Center Theatre but also the Federal Building next door which houses administration, gallery space and arts education classes.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Soulé Steam Feed Works is a historic business founded in Meridian, Mississippi in 1892 and incorporated in 1893 by George Soulé. The complex was listed as a contributing property to Union Station Historic District, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 under the Meridian Multiple Resource Area . It was listed as a Mississippi Landmark in 2003. The business, known for its many patented innovations in steam engine technology, reached its height around the turn of the 20th century, producing products that were sold around the world.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum obtained the deed to the complex and has operated there since. The museum hosts an annual Soulé Live Steam Festival at the complex attracting thousands of people from around the nation.</p><br>
<h2>George Soulé</h2><br>
<p>George Wilberforce Soulé, founder of Soulé Steam Feed Works, was born in Buffalo, New York in 1849. He was a descendant of another George Soule who came to America on the Mayflower. At the age of one, he and his father, Isaac, moved to Wisconsin. When young George was 20 years old, his father died, and he decided to leave the family farm and pursue his own livelihood. Despite having obtained less than one year of formal education, he served as a school teacher for one three-month term before heading south to end up in Morton, Mississippi, in 1875. He had originally missed a ship to Cuba, but stayed at several businesses in Morton and Shubuta, Mississippi, before moving his operations to Meridian in 1879. Businesses operated by Soulé upon entering Meridian included a turpentine company, a lumber company, a cotton gin, and a manufacturer&#39;s representative. Before he moved to Meridian, he was involved in a railroad accident in March 1876 in which he lost his left leg and four toes of his right foot.</p><br>
<p>Soulé founded two other companies before Steam Feed Works, the Southern Standard Cotton Press Company and the Progress Manufacturing Company. Short of money after his railroad accident, he decided to build his own cotton press for his fledgling cotton gin. The invention was simpler and less expensive than those on the market and attracted wide attention. Soulé called his invention the Southern Standard Cotton Press and founded the company around this machine. In 1881, two years after he moved the business to Meridian, the company sold 750 cotton presses all over the South.</p><br>
<p>In 1886, Soulé sold the Southern Standard Press after founding Progress Manufacturing in 1894, and invented the Ideal Hay-Press for use in the new company. This new business was located on 5th Street between 26th and 27th Avenues and grew to include a foundry and machine shop. Looking to invent more, he turned over active management to Progress Manufacturing in 1888 and began working on a small rotary engine. He sold Progress Manufacturing in 1891 and established Steam Feed Works. The business was incorporated in 1893. In total, Soulé patented over 40 items during his lifetime, including the Success Cotton Seed Huller and an improved version of the sugar mill.</p><br>
<p>In 1902, when the new Steam Feed Works had become well-established, Soulé found a country home in Santa Rosa County, Florida. He began to turn much of the company over to his son, Clyde, and spent more of his time in Florida, before returning to Meridian in 1917, where he stayed until his death on December 21, 1922. During his life he had two wives – Olivia Sherman Warren in 1873 and Constance Gara in 1907, two years after his former wife&#39;s death – and nine children. One of his grand children, also named George Soulé, was an influential R&B songwriter in the 1960s and 70s.</p><br>
<h2>Steam Feed Works</h2><br>
<h3>Complex</h3><br>
<p>Soulé Steam Feed Works was originally located at the corner of 25th Avenue and 5th Street. The first building built on the companys present lot was built between 1890 and 1892 was formerly the Meridian Candy Factory. After the building was devastated by fire, George Soulé bought it and turned it into a machine shop, assembly area, and office for the up-and-coming business, which would later relocate there. The two-story buildings facade was originally brick, but a layer of lime cement stucco was added in the 1930s, and a second layer was added in the late 1960s. Inside the building is an 8 x fireproof vault, which holds the original company records. Above the vault, the company is written in gold. The vault was added after an 1895 fire destroyed George Soulé&#39;s office and the records in it.</p><br>
<p>A second building was added on to the side of the original building in 1907, and the downstairs of the original building was converted into a mill supply store. Belt-driven machines are powered by a 100 ft line shaft which stretches almost the entire length of the building. was powered by an electric motor dating from the early 1920s. There is also a blacksmith shop and two forges in the building, both of which are powered by the line shaft. A belt-driven wooden freight elevator was used to take finished castings to the assembly room upstairs and lower the finished products back downstairs. A system of rails and cranes allowed this heavy machinery and other items to be transported easily to the elevator and throughout the building. The crane system could also move items to the foundry (built in 1917) and the machine shop, as well as out to the street. There is a steam engine factory on the second floor of the building which contains another 25 ft shaft that was driven by the main downstairs shaft. Fans were attached to this smaller shaft to keep the area cool during the summer.</p><br>
<p>In October 1907 when the second building was built, Soulé employed 23 people in the foundry department and 23 machinists, making 46 total employees. By May 1917, the total number had dropped to 31 due to the shortage of manpower during World War I, but employee totals increased again after the war, averaging 50 people between 1922 and 1945. Employees were paid an average of 50 to 70 cents per hour – the highest paying jobs in Meridian at the time – and the foreman and supervisors would receive a weekly cash stipend of $7–9. Workers would be on duty six days a week for an average of nine hours per day.</p><br>
<p>A third building, the foundry, was added to the complex in 1917, and additions were made from 1923 to 1925. A cupola furnace that pre-dates the building itself was installed near the western end of the building and used to melt iron until a modern electric furnace was added in the 1970s. Both furnaces still exist in the building, and both can be used at the same time. In 1977 a Vulcan Engineering NoBake System was added. A fourth and fifth building were also added in the 1920s, although they were only used as storage and added no extra manufacturing ability to the complex.</p><br>
<p>Though during its peak the company produced and shipped many of its products around the world, after World War II, the company focused on the local and regional market. The upstairs of the original 1892 building was converted into storage in the 1950s. Other changes were also made in the latter half of the 20th century, including dividing the office space in the original building into cubicles, covering walls with Masonite board, and covering the floors with sheet vinyl. The Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum received the title to the building in December 2003 and restored the building largely to its 1920s appearance.</p><br>
<h3>Products</h3><br>
<p>The company is most widely known for serving the lumber industry that boomed from about 1885 to the 1930s. At the turn of the century, steam was the only portable and dependable source of power, and the Soulé Rotary Steam Engine was patented in 1896. The engine was used from 1892 to 1922 to drive sawmill carriages, which would help feed lumber into a spinning saw blade. The engine could also power winches to load and unload logs to and from railroad cars and wagons. A total of 2,300 engines were built at the plant and sold around the world; a few are still in operation in Australia and India.</p><br>
<p>The Soulé Spee-D-Twin, a two-cylinder reciprocating steam engine, was designed in 1922 and patented in 1923. Being much more efficient than its predecessor, the Spee-D-Twin became the favorite among sawmill operators. The engine featured a valve that allowed the engine to operate in both forward and reverse, and its small size allowed it to be retrofitted onto an existing carriage. When in full operation, the factory could produce one Spee-D-Twin per day. The company built and sold 4,301 Spee-D-Twins between 1923 and 1984 to people in all fifty states and internationally as well.</p><br>
<p>Soulé Steam Feed Works also patented the Simplex Automatic Lumber Edge Stacker in 1897, which would automate the process of stacking lumber. The first Edge Stacker was installed in the mill of Camp & Hinton Company in Lumberton, Mississippi in July 1895, and more than 100 were installed around the nation. Some notable mills in which Soulé Stackers were installed include the Great Southern Lumber Company in Bogalusa, Louisiana; Grays Harbor Commercial Company in Cosmopolis, Washington; and Potlatch Lumber Company in Elk River, Idaho.</p><br>
<p>Other products manufactured and sold by Soulé Steam Feed Works include the St. Bernard Saw Mill Dog, which would allow mills to extract lumber not only from large logs but from smaller ones as well. A.D. Hunter, an employee of Steam Feed Works, invented a plane-to-plane air refueling device while at work, which was used during Fred and Al Key&#39;s record-breaking endurance flight in 1935. Another employee, David Stephenson, fabricated the aluminum catwalk used during the flight to perform maintenance on the plane.</p><br>
<h2>Soulé Live Steam Festival</h2><br>
<p>Beginning in October 2003, the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum began holding the Soulé Live Steam Festival, which showcases the history of steam engines, for which the company is most widely known. The festival has grown every year since and is the only steam show in the United States held at an actual steam engine factory.</p><br>
<p>The 2008 festival attracted nearly 2,000 people from 10 states to downtown Meridian. A Watts-Campbell Corliss steam engine, built in 1905, had been offered to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but they already had one, so it was given to the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum and installed during that year. The museum also owns the last steam engine ever built by the company.</p><br>
<p>The seventh annual festival in 2009 attracted several thousand visitors from 15 states and one foreign country. The event was also expanded to two days. During the event, the Watts-Campbell Corliss engine acquired in 2008 was demonstrated as well as an 1870 Manchester engine. Other steam engines were also brought in by the public and put on display. A portable sawmill was demonstrated as well.</p><br>
<p>Other demonstrations that regularly appear at the festival include blacksmith, broom-making, and pottery wheel demonstrations, as well as the operation of an antique print shop. Most of the displays at the festival have working examples that blow whistles, emit steam, and cut logs. Alabama Art Casting has held annual molten iron pours at Soule until recent years.</p><br>
<p>The Linden Apartments are a historic multiunit apartment house at 10–12 Linden Pl. in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a -story wood-frame Second Empire style building with a mansard roof, and projecting window bays. Built in 1886, it is the most architecturally distinctive tenement house in the city, and is its oldest surviving six-unit building. It was probably built by George Hoyt, one Stamford&#39;s leading 19th-century real estate developers.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>March Route of Rochambeau&#39;s Army: Reservoir Road is a historic site in Newtown, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It is along the march route taken by French Army troops under General Rochambeau in 1781.</p><br>
<p>The listed site is less than 1 acre in area and consists of a section of Reservoir Road running between stone walls which is believed to be the roadway taken by Rochambeau&#39;s army. It is an undeveloped property.</p><br>
<p>The March Route of Rochambeaus Army: Hutchinson Road is a 2 acre historic road section in Andover, Connecticut. The section of Hutchinson Road, laid out in the early 18th century and formerly an alignment of United States Route 6, formed part of the 1781-82 march routes of Rochambeaus army which contributed to American victory in the American Revolutionary War. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hutchinson Road is located in western Andover, paralleling the modern alignment of US 6, which runs roughly northwest to southeast a short way to the west. A former alignment of US 6, it is accessed from Hendee Road, extending both north and south to dead ends shortly before reaching US 6. The historic section of the roadway consists of the portion south of Hendee Road. It is an asphalt-paved roadway, with a right of way 22 ft wide, lined for most of its distance by stone walls. The road section is about 3,000 ft long, and is lined with electric utility poles. The segment includes just one building: White&#39;s Tavern, which is also historically associated with the Rochambeau march. The road section is one of multiple properties along the march route evaluated in a 2001 study.</p><br>
<p>The road section is part of a road laid out in the early 18th century, connecting the capital at Hartford with the important communities of Lebanon and Norwich in the southeastern part of the state. This road is identified on maps prepared by French engineers who determined the Rochambeau armys march route in 1781. Whites Tavern is known to have quartered French officers during both the southward march in 1781 and the northward march in 1782. The army encamped in the area north of Hendee Road on the 1782 march. The road remained a major regional through route, with improvements made in both the 19th and 20th centuries, until the new alignment of US 6 bypassed it. The area&#39;s landscape continues to retain an appearance reminiscent of the 1780s.</p><br>
<p>The Canton Township MPS is a multiple property submission, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. A multiple property submission is a group of related structures that share a common theme. The Canton Township MPS consists of eleven houses  built between 1825 and 1904 and located in Canton Township, Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Early history and settlement</h2><br>
<p>Although lands around Detroit had been settled since the early 18th century, it took considerably longer for interior parts of Michigan to attract settlers. After the American Revolution, the United States began plans to expand into what was then the Northwest Territory. However, the British still held onto some trading posts in the area, and the Native Americans still held legal title to most of Michigan. The War of 1812 removed the British from the area, and a series of treaties with area tribes removed most obstacles to settlement.</p><br>
<p>However, it was commonly believed that the interior of Michigan was of poor quality: Edward Tiffin, surveyor general of the United States in the 1810s, reported that the area consisted primarily of swamps, likes, and poor sandy soil. Thus, most early settlers headed for more southerly (and more easily accessible) lands near the Ohio River, and surveying in Michigan wasn&#39;t begun until 1815.</p><br>
<p>Eventually, settlers (primarily from New York and New England) made it into the area. The first purchasers of land in Canton Township were Philander and Samuel Burd, who filed on May 30, 1825. A week later, Timothy Sheldon (builder of the Sheldon Inn) and Lucretia Downer purchased property; by the end of 1825 thirteen people had settled in the township. The opening of the Erie Canal in October 1825 made the journey to Michigan easier and spurred settlement in Michigan. Land purchases in Canton Township peaked in 1833, and all but 14 of the 328 parcels were sold by 1836. By the 1840 census, the population of Canton Township was 1081.</p><br>
<p>Many families whose houses are included in this MPS were among the first wave of settlers purchasing property in Canton. Timothy Sheldon built his Sheldon Inn in 1825 shortly after he arrived in the area. Moses Bradford (Benjamins brother) also arrived in 1825, and John Patterson arrived in 1826. Elisha Kinyon, Orrins father, bought land in 1831; both Orrin Kinyon and Benjamin Bradford purchased their own farms in 1835. These families, as were the bulk of Canton&#39;s early settlers, traveled from New York and New England to Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>A second wave of settlers arrived in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Unlike the first settlers from New England, this second wave consisted primarily of immigrants from Central Europe. Two houses built by German immigrants or their descendants, the Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House and the John and Edna Truesdell Fischer Farmstead.</p><br>
<p>For the remainder of the century, the population of the area remained relatively stable, and farmland was passed from generation to generation. Whereas the early settlers engaged in subsistence farming, their descendants were able to turn farming into a business, with many going into the dairy business. In the twentieth century, farmers turned to market farming, delivering their produce and other goods to markets in Detroit and other area cities.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Many of the early settlers in Canton Township were from New York and New England. These pioneers brought Greek Revival-style architecture with them and implemented it when they constructed their own houses. All pre-1865 houses on this MPS were originally constructed in the Greek Revival style, although one (the Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House) was later updated with Victorian elements.</p><br>
<p>As the nineteenth century progressed, the local family farms prospered, and the farmers grew more affluent. This economic success was reflected in the increasing size and modernity of the houses built in Canton Township. Earlier houses were updated and/or enlarged as the residents were able to afford more space. At the same time, architectural styles changed, with later houses being of an upright and wing or gabled-ell design. Near the end of the century, typically Victorian house forms, Stick-Eastlake and Queen Anne were also used.</p><br>
<h3>Houses in MPS</h3><br>
