[First plaque]
1924
Martin County Historic Register
Martin County Historical Preservation Board
March 9, 2015
[Second plaque]
This property
is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places . . . — — Map (db m193623) HM
In 1942 the federal government opened Camp Murphy. It was the home of the Southern Signal Corps School during World War II and served as a U.S. Army base for instruction in radar operation in the early course of the war. The post was named in honor . . . — — Map (db m14314) HM
Three miles to the east on September 23, 1696, the British barkentine Reformation foundered off Jupiter Island. The 24 survivors included a party of Quakers bound from Jamaica to Pennsylvania. Leader of the Quakers was Jonathan Dickinson who . . . — — Map (db m14311) HM
This Property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior as Olympia School — — Map (db m226370) HM
When he arrived from New Jersey in the early 1930s, Vincent Natulkiewicz, also known as Vince “Trapper” Nelson found the area still teeming with wildlife. For decades he lived off the land, supplementing his diet of raccoon, gopher . . . — — Map (db m106565) HM
Born in 1923, Betty Mae Tiger Jumper was the first Chairwoman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, elected in 1967. She spent her early life with her parents, Ada Tiger and Abe Partan, at the Seminole camp in Indiantown. Tribal medicine men threatened . . . — — Map (db m148906) HM
From 1900 until the late 1950s, the Jupiter Indiantown Road connected the communities of Jupiter and Indiantown, giving residents access to resources. Dade County governed the area in 1899, when the new road was cut. In Indiantown about that time, . . . — — Map (db m96931) HM
In 1893, a community of Episcopal worshippers began to emerge in this area. With the property donated by Charles H. and Mary Racey, the congregation established the All Saints' Episcopal Church and All Saints' Cemetery in 1898.
The All Saints' . . . — — Map (db m112175) HM
Dedicated To The Recipients Of The Nation's Oldest Military Decoration "The Purple Heart" Combat Wounded Veterans Military Order of the Purple Heart 1782 - 1932 My stone is red for the blood they shed. The . . . — — Map (db m213496) HM WM
A Marker for Millennia
A recognizable landmark on the west bank of the Indian River, the prominent rise we know today as Mount Elizabeth, is actually a collection of debris from a Late Archaic village over 4,200 years old. The Archaic . . . — — Map (db m150970) HM
Mount Elizabeth Mound was constructed approximately 4,000 years ago during the Late Archaic Period by Florida bands who selected this site for a ceremonial shell midden-mound. It was occupied 4,000-800 years ago by ancient peoples who first . . . — — Map (db m106567) HM
This Mediterranean Revival style monument typical of the pre-Depression Florida Boom was designed by Nat C. Hodgdon of Pfeiffer and O'Reilly Architects, constructed by A. L. Doenges and completed on February 20, 1926. The arch was built to celebrate . . . — — Map (db m83286) HM
Mt. Elizabeth and the surrounding property were purchased by explorer William Henry Racey in the late 1850's. In 1891, his son, Charles Racey, built a three-story wood-frame house on the mound for his family and started a pineapple and citrus . . . — — Map (db m117570) HM
The mansion at
Tuckahoe
1938
Restored 2009
Listed on the National Register
of Historic Places by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m112168) HM
Across the Intracoastal Waterway is Jupiter Island. It was part of an ancient offshore sand bar which became exposed when the sea level dropped.
Protected from salt spray and yet close enough to the ocean to receive its warming effects, the island . . . — — Map (db m226874) HM
This 10-minute walk up to the top of the Hobe Mountain Observation Tower will give you a view of the Atlantic Ocean, Intracoastal Waterway, and the entire expanse of the park. As you walk through the Sand Pine Scrub (Vanishing plant Community) . . . — — Map (db m226371) HM
The plant community located around the tower is called sand pine scrub and is found on the higher elevations in the park. It is two-layered, with the sand pine occupying the top layer, and various oaks and shrubs making up a thick understory. This . . . — — Map (db m226873) HM
On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee. This deadly hurricane destroyed hundreds of buildings and left millions of dollars of property damage. Many of . . . — — Map (db m114784) HM
Sewall's Point, with high fertile hammocks situated between the St. Lucie and Indian rivers, attracted this area's earliest settlers. These pioneers cleared the land, planted pineapples, and citrus, and traveled to Titusville by sailboat for . . . — — Map (db m112170) HM
Dr. William H. Baker and his family settled here in 1880 and named the place Waveland. Their home was the first permanent residence in what is Martin County today, and Waveland was prominent on Florida maps for many years. The section line that . . . — — Map (db m112169) HM
In 1889, Capt. Henry Seawall and his wife, Abbie, settled on the peninsula that bears their name. Previously, the Sewall family inherited a third of the 16,000-acre Miles-Hanson Grant, awarded by the king of Spain in 1823. Within the grant were the . . . — — Map (db m127508) HM
It was New Year's Day 1916 and many locals took the ferry to the big Palm City picnic. They were soon called back when someone looked across the St. Lucie to see smoke billowing on the horizon and yelled, "Stuart is burning down!"
And sure . . . — — Map (db m193628) HM
Have you ever had a vacation that was so great you didn't want to go home? That's what happened to President Grover Cleveland when he visited Stuart in 1899. The President had such a good time fishing here that he bought a lot just north of where . . . — — Map (db m193644) HM
Back in the 1900s, Stuart locals were a healthy lot, and thanks to balmy temperatures, endless sunshine, and salty air, visiting northerners often found they regained their good health too. No wonder the entire region came to be known as “a healing . . . — — Map (db m193671) HM
A lasting monument to the original settlers and
early pioneers of Potsdam (now Stuart) Florida
Annie (Speirs) and Albert Krueger
This property has been listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States . . . — — Map (db m193689) HM
Visible behind you, Stuart's water tower rises above the tree line as you gaze down historic Osceola Street.
The water tower was constructed in 1959. The American flag first appeared encircling the tank as suggested by the Martin County High . . . — — Map (db m193648) HM
Thee pilings are the remains of the Florida East Coast Railway freight dock, once a center of local commerce for many years. Fish and pineapples were shipped from Stuart by the boxcar load.
In 1918, when the first auto-bridge spanned the St. . . . — — Map (db m226363) HM
Listed on the Stuart Historic Register on December 4, 2018.
Certificate of Designation-Resolution No. 13-2018 (CRA)
Geo. W. Parks General Merchandise was constructed by George Washington Parks in 1901, when Stuart (originally named . . . — — Map (db m226358) HM
Built in 1901, this is one of the best examples of early 20th century wood frame vernacular style commercial buildings left in south Florida.
The second story served as the Parks family home in later years. The store evolved into a hardware . . . — — Map (db m226367) HM
The iron-hulled Italian bark Georges Valentine was built in 1869 at Liverpool, England. She was wrecked here in a storm on October 16, 1904, while bound from Pensacola to Buenos Aires with a load of lumber. Five members of her twelve-man crew . . . — — Map (db m112173) HM
Only one remaining of nine on Florida east coast commissioned in 1875 for the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Keepers provided shelter, food, clothing, and transportation to survivors of shipwrecks and storms at sea. In U.S. Coast Guard Service through . . . — — Map (db m112172) HM
Europeans arriving at Hutchinson Island in the 16th century found the island populated by hundreds of Native Americans living in settlements bordering both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River.
The rich marine environment provided these . . . — — Map (db m106588) HM
Built in 1925 by R.l. Robb Construction Co. for the Golden Gate Development Company, this building is one of Martin County's most distinctive historical structures. The two-story, trapezoidal building was designed in the Mission/Mediterranean . . . — — Map (db m136029) HM
Travelers arriving in Stuart in the late 1800's knew they had reached a civilized town when they saw the steeple of Stuart's first church standing next to the railroad in the Potsdam Subdivision. Built in 1895, the 12-member congregation represented . . . — — Map (db m193635) HM
The Peter Montague & Lord Baltimore
Chapters of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century mark this Martin County Court House to commemorate the historical significance of this site to Martin County, Florida and its people. Built in . . . — — Map (db m193667) HM
In 1903 Noah parks built this house for his family shotly after his brother George Parks constructed the General Merchandise Store.
In November of 1908 Noah Parks contracted a fatal illness and died, leaving his widow Mildred and seven children . . . — — Map (db m226359) HM
Look behind you. The two-story building with the elaborate faux stone exterior is the Feroe Building. Built in 1913, this was the home of the Stuart Drug Company – and Stuart's first pay phone!
Installed on April 9, 1915, calls from the phone . . . — — Map (db m193656) HM
Dedicated to the Brave Veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States who were killed of wounded in combat while serving and protecting our Great Country. — — Map (db m226361) WM
In Memory of those men and women who honorably and faithfully served their country in the armed forces of the United States of America, in the preservation of freedom and justice for all; their sacrifices, faith in God and country, shall be . . . — — Map (db m226415) WM
First settled in 1818, Hindostan became county seat of Martin County, boasting a population of approximately 1,200. A “Great Sickness” struck in 1828 bringing death to the inhabitants. The town was never occupied again. — — Map (db m99002) HM
(Left Panel)
The Martin County Guards
Company C, 14th Regiment Indiana Volunteers
Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, President Abraham Lincoln called for the states remaining in . . . — — Map (db m98961) HM
Bronze Plaque
This property
is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Engraved Stone
Martin County
Court House
Erected 1876 . . . — — Map (db m47420) HM
( Top - Center Panel )
In Memory of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice for their Country
( Left Panel )
* * * World War I * * *
(Row One) - - Clarence H. Corbin • Benjamin H. Abner • Isaac Alford • George B. Bridges • . . . — — Map (db m47482) WM
Shoals was the location of the connecting point of the main east-west railroad line, which was laid westward from Cincinnati, Ohio by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company and eastward from St. Louis, Missouri by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad . . . — — Map (db m180290) HM
County Named, 1870
For Col. John P. Martin, born Va. 1811, came to Kentucky in 1828. State House of Representatives, 1841-43; U.S. Congress, 1845-47. State Senator, 1857-61. Delegate from State at large to Democratic National Convention, . . . — — Map (db m136957) HM
[Front] Dedicated
to those of
Martin County
now reposed in
eternal sleep who
gave their lives in
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
On Fame's eternal camping ground,
their silent tents are spread . . . — — Map (db m212034) WM
Pioneer Ward
James Ward born in Virginia, 1758. He settled on Rockcastle Creek, three miles south of here, where he lived 50 years and died, 1848. Private, Virginia regiments, War of the Revolution, 1775-76, 1778. Came to Kentucky, 1779. . . . — — Map (db m136959) HM
William McCoy, Sr.
Noted local attorney. Born at Pleasant, 1873. Read law, was admitted to bar in 1896. Martin County attorney, 1906-1914. Considered an expert on old land patents and deeds of eastern Ky. Interest in education led to . . . — — Map (db m136953) HM
Colorful frontiersman. An ancient
headstone at grave shows he was
born 1735, died 1855. Enlisted for
three short periods in Revolution
and fought Indians and Tories in
west Carolinas and east Tennessee.
Legend tells that he was captured
by . . . — — Map (db m146107) HM
So named after Chet Huntley, a former NBC
News Correspondent and part of NBC’s ‘Huntley-Brinkley Report’ team, whose publicity in 1965
aided a small group of Eastern Kentuckians
in building a badly needed road which is now
known as the . . . — — Map (db m146057) HM
Warfield
First Martin County seat, 1870. Established about 1850 as a coal, salt and lumber community by George Rogers Clark Floyd and John Warfield of Va. mountains. Products shipped by river boats to Catlettsburg. Floyd was son of one . . . — — Map (db m136653) HM
Established 1895 on land donated by Ed Hoffmeyer
1 ¼ acre Tenhassen Section 22, Martin County, MN
Founding members:
Henry Sr, & Jr. Fred & August Rosenberg,
Edward, Kossuth & Walter Hoffmeyer,
Gottfried Schmidt, Conrad Brutsch, Charles . . . — — Map (db m230851) HM
Tenhassen, a Dakota word which means "sugar maple," was known from 1856 to 1873 as Tuttle's Grove, in honor of Calvin Tuttle, the first settler in Martin County. The fur trade furnished its only cash revenue in its earliest years. A post office was . . . — — Map (db m230849) HM
This town, located one mile northeast of this
marker, was platted by the Minneapolis & St.
Louis railroad in 1899. It was named for Spanish
explorer Hernando De Soto, the discoverer of
the Mississippi River, by a St. Paul resident in
charge . . . — — Map (db m203728) HM
Chubb House
Built in 1867 by Dr. Orville P. Chubb, this is the oldest brick house still standing in Fairmont. The bricks were "burnt" of clay from Buffalo Lake in Martin County. It is a tribute to the strength, beauty and vitality of our . . . — — Map (db m237402) HM
This boulder marks the site of
Fort Fairmount
Built during the Sioux Indian Uprising
1862
By Co. A 25th Wisconsin volunteers under Major Jeremiah M. Rusk
and is
dedicated to the pioneers
who faced the dangers of frontier life . . . — — Map (db m205059) HM
Known also as Chain of Lakes post, was a substantial log stockade of the present Martin County court house grounds.
It was built in September 1862 for defence against the Sioux and was garrisoned by volunteers and troops of the 25th . . . — — Map (db m205131) HM WM
Pioneer Memorial Drive
This bridge and road marks the original route into Fairmont in the 1800's. The numerous lakes and streams made the entry difficult for travelers on horseback and on foot. In 1869 a wooden bridge was built in this location . . . — — Map (db m205132) HM
According to tradition, there once lived a famous singer among the Sisseton Sioux, who inhabited this then wilderness area - their chief village being on the east bank of Lake Sisseton. Famous throughout the Sioux nation, he wove into exquisite song . . . — — Map (db m237410) HM
Center Chain, once the cultural center of the county, was the first settlement in Martin Co. It was located on the east bank of Iowa Lake. Fairmont residents fled here for safety during the Indian scare of 1857. The post office was in existence from . . . — — Map (db m230857) HM
The town of Pixley, in Pleasant Prairie Township, was the life work of George Pixley, a Vermont native. He also kept the post office, 1881-1894, delivering mail to forty families three times weekly. As a compliment to him, the post office was named . . . — — Map (db m230859) HM
On January 22, 1899, 18 men met to establish a German Evangelical congregation in Pleasant Prairie Township. July 9, 1899 church was dedicated. 1934 the Evangelical and Reformed churches merged. 1957 the Evangelical and Reformed merged with . . . — — Map (db m230862) HM
Lone Cedar Post Office was established June 4.
1867 in the home of Kilburn Archer. its first
postmaster. It was named after the large cedar
tree growing in Section 18. Manyaska Twp. It
was an important post office because it was a
transfer . . . — — Map (db m202929) HM
All Gave Some
Some Gave All
Louis T. Aldrich (KIA)
PFC Army
1943-1945 WW II
Daniel R. Bernhardt (KIA)
PFC Army
1942-1943 WW II
Bernard D. Ott (KIA)
SGT Army
1944 WW II
Rollie Peiper (KIA)
PVT Marine Corps . . . — — Map (db m140964) WM
Cedarville, a thriving trade center for thirty years, was located on the north shore of Cedar Lake. The post office was in existence from 1868-1903. After the post office closed the mail was sent to Monterey. Francis Drugan was the first postmaster. . . . — — Map (db m230867) HM
This community was settled by people of German descent. A creamery was built in 1894 and a general store in 1895 or 1896. The North Star Post Office was established in Sec. 22, Waverly Twp. and moved to the store in 1898. An ice house, church, . . . — — Map (db m230866) HM
Nashville Center was settled by American pioneers of English, Scotch and Welch descent in 1865. A school was established in 1865 and a post office in 1867. This farming settlement grew into a country trading center of about 100 people. Businesses . . . — — Map (db m230863) HM
Located on this site, the town of Manyaska was established in 1899 and was a station on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad between Welcome and Ceylon. Manyaska is a Dakota word which means "white bank or bluff." At one time the town had two . . . — — Map (db m230847) HM
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederates fortified the high bluffs of Rainbow Banks here on the Roanoke River. The fort helped prevent Union gunboat attacks in the upper Roanoke River Valley, guarded the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad . . . — — Map (db m59063) HM
Confederate fort at Rainbow Banks, built to protect railroads and the upper Roanoke River valley. Earthworks remain. 3 miles northeast. — — Map (db m59060) HM
Confederate fort. Was built, 1862-1863, at Rainbow Banks to protect railroads & Upper Roanoke River valley. Earthworks 3 miles NE. — — Map (db m227090) HM
Situated at the northeast junction of a rural crossroads between the Roanoke River towns of Hamilton and Williamston. Spring Green Primitive Baptist Church’s pastoral setting has changed little from when this front-gable, frame meeting house was . . . — — Map (db m227095) HM
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church was established as a missionary station in 1868. The present structure was built in either 1879 or 1880. All materials were produced locally except for the bell and stained glass which were imported from England. The . . . — — Map (db m227087) HM
The Oak City Christian Church is also known as Oak City Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The church is a single story, frame, weather-boarded, Gothic Revival style building. It features five lancet-arched stained glass windows and a . . . — — Map (db m227080) HM
Oak City, NC
Martin County
The National Register
of Historic Places
January 25, 2018
High School opened in 1952 and served the communities until 1970. Elementary School was added in 1956 for students in grades K-8.Closed 2008
"When . . . — — Map (db m227083) HM
Stood one-fourth mile south. Parmele Institute, 1900. Industrial Training School - 1912-1914. First brick school Martin County. 1914. Served Black youths, teachers in a training curriculum in the State. — — Map (db m226934) HM
Asa Biggs (1811-1878), a prominent North Carolina politician and jurist, and his wife, Martha, built this Federal and Greek Revival—style house and lived here from 1835 to 1862. Biggs practiced law from his office just across Smithwick Street. . . . — — Map (db m152853) HM
POW Camps Across the United States
There were POW camps across the United States, setup by the federal government. By May of 1945, the United States held 378,000 German prisoners of war, across 155 base camps and 511 branch camps. They were . . . — — Map (db m186841) HM
Mass meetings at Green Memorial Church for 32 days, June-July 1963, & nonviolent marches, led to the desegregation of local public facilities. — — Map (db m225143) HM
The Skewarkee Meeting House was formed in 1789 and assumed a 'mantel of authority' for smaller congregations between the Roanoke and Tar Rivers as well as the Kehukee Association. In 1839, on land donated by Brother Joseph D. Biggs, the present . . . — — Map (db m70516) HM
In 1882, six German friars from St. Boniface monastery in Scipio, Kansas, founded a new Carmelite monastery at Grelton Station, halfway between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas & Pacific Railroad. They renamed the station Marienfeld and . . . — — Map (db m86548) HM
Constructed in 1882 as a two-room home for Carmelite Priests, this was the first building in Stanton. Dennis and Mary (Stoeger) Connell made their home here after their marriage in 1902. Mary bore eight children in the house, which grew with the . . . — — Map (db m86549) HM
Early Methodists in Stanton shared a Union church building with area Baptists. In 1904, following a local revival, nine individuals formed a separate Methodist congregation. The Rev. J.A. Sweeney, a Conference-appointed pastor, came the next year. . . . — — Map (db m86552) HM
About 1900, J. E. and Nettie (Bell) Millhollon trailed their cattle from Glasscock to Martin County, acquiring this homesite and 34 sections of land. Business and church leaders in Stanton, the couple had this house erected in 1907 by N. H. Hunt of . . . — — Map (db m86553) HM
Former name of Stanton. Begun as German colony by 5 German Catholics from Kansas, who pitched tents here, near new Texas & Pacific Railroad in 1881.
The site -- with a water tank, section house, telegraph office - bore name Grelton, but settlers . . . — — Map (db m86537) HM
On lower great plains of west Texas. Formed from Young and Bexar territories. Created Aug. 21, 1876, and organized Nov. 4, 1884. Named for Wyly Martin, member of Austin's colony and Texas patriot.
County seat established by the first . . . — — Map (db m239952) HM
The cell block of this jail was originally included in the 1885 Martin County Courthouse, built the year after the organization of Martin County when Stanton was known as Marienfeld. When the courthouse was torn down following a 1908 bond election, . . . — — Map (db m86546) HM
With the purpose of founding a monastery and a German Catholic colony, Carmelite Monks, in 1881, began the first Catholic church between Fort Worth and El Paso. The adobe and brick monastery was completed in 1884, and St. Joseph's Church in 1885. . . . — — Map (db m86547) HM
At the turn of the 20th century, a group of Stanton-area residents who belonged to the Church of Christ met in homes and in the Stanton school for worship. In 1904, Brother Price Billingsley from Abilene led a gospel meeting that prompted the . . . — — Map (db m86551) HM
