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The 911 World Trade Center Memorial in Kennewick, Washington, made from 35-foot battered remnants of dual beams of a vertical support column salvaged from the landmark New York Twin Towers on 9112001

The 911 World Trade Center Memorial in Kennewick, Washington, made fro...

On that day nine years later, it was dedicated to the in memory of the 2,977 men and women who lost their lives in the sneak terrorist attacks across the continent. Title, date and keywords based on information... More

House, Route O & Route 83 vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

House, Route O & Route 83 vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Significance: The only remaining house on the original site of Fairfield, Missouri, this is a good example of a 1-1/2 story log house. Survey number: HABS MO-1240

House, Route O & Route 83 vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

House, Route O & Route 83 vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Significance: The only remaining house on the original site of Fairfield, Missouri, this is a good example of a 1-1/2 story log house. Survey number: HABS MO-1240

Pasco-Kennewick Transmission Line, Columbia River Crossing Towers, Columbia Drive & Gum Street, Kennewick, Benton County, WA

Pasco-Kennewick Transmission Line, Columbia River Crossing Towers, Col...

Significance: The three electrical transmission line towers between Pasco Kennewick are the earliest known effort to span the Columbia River, by aerial means, with electrical lines strung between steel frame to... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Hudson Bay Post, Columbia River Vicinity, White Bluffs, Benton County, WA

Hudson Bay Post, Columbia River Vicinity, White Bluffs, Benton County,...

Survey number: HABS WA-110 Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atlas of Benton County, Iowa. - Public domain map

Atlas of Benton County, Iowa. - Public domain map

Blue line print. Includes index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotations in colored pencil on some maps. Vendor: John Carbonell Acquisitions control no. 2008-114

Middle Bridge, Spanning Osage River, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Middle Bridge, Spanning Osage River, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Middle Bridge, Spanning Osage River, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Middle Bridge, Spanning Osage River, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, Richland, Benton County, WA

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, ...

Significance: Building 232-Z, a waste incinerator facility, was constructed to recover plutonium from miscellaneous solid wastes produced by the adjacent Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), the Plutonium Isolation... More

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, Richland, Benton County, WA

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, ...

Significance: Building 232-Z, a waste incinerator facility, was constructed to recover plutonium from miscellaneous solid wastes produced by the adjacent Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), the Plutonium Isolation... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

Significance: 185-D, 189-D and 190-D, building in what is commonly known as the 190-D complex, were completed in December, 1944 in conjunction with the start-up of D-Reactor. (190-DA, 195-D, and 1724-DA, the o... More

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

Significance: 185-D, 189-D and 190-D, building in what is commonly known as the 190-D complex, were completed in December, 1944 in conjunction with the start-up of D-Reactor. (190-DA, 195-D, and 1724-DA, the o... More

Samuel Kinkead House, South Grand River & Little Tebo Creek vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Samuel Kinkead House, South Grand River & Little Tebo Creek vicinity, ...

Significance: A fine example of a large 2-story L-pan house. It is typical of its period and locale in the use of the peaked window and door lintels, and quite extraordinary for the treatment of the facade with... More

Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, Spanning Columbia River, Pasco, Franklin County, WA

Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, Spanning Columbia River, Pasco, Franklin Count...

Significance: First of three cantilever structures built across the Columbia in 1920's - representative of long span truss bridges. / The Pasco-Kennewick Bridge was constructed in 1922 to replace an outmoded fe... More

Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, Spanning Columbia River, Pasco, Franklin County, WA

Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, Spanning Columbia River, Pasco, Franklin Count...

Significance: First of three cantilever structures built across the Columbia in 1920's - representative of long span truss bridges. / The Pasco-Kennewick Bridge was constructed in 1922 to replace an outmoded fe... More

D-Reactor Complex, Deaeration Plant-Refrigeration Buildings, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

D-Reactor Complex, Deaeration Plant-Refrigeration Buildings, Area 100-...

Survey number: HAER WA-127-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

D-Reactor Complex, Deaeration Plant-Refrigeration Buildings, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

D-Reactor Complex, Deaeration Plant-Refrigeration Buildings, Area 100-...

Survey number: HAER WA-127-A Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tip Estes operating a tractor. Near Fowler, Indiana

Tip Estes operating a tractor. Near Fowler, Indiana

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Poultry house on the land rented by Clifford Rowe, twenty-six-year-old tenant farmer. Near Templeton, Indiana

Poultry house on the land rented by Clifford Rowe, twenty-six-year-old...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

6:45 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man near Fowler, Indiana, pitching hay into feeding racks. Many cattle are fed on this farm

6:45 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man near Fowler, Indiana, pitching hay into...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tip Estes, hired man on a Benton County, Indiana farm, was promised this house to live in, but the employer has now rented it to the manager of the Farm Bureau Coop Association

Tip Estes, hired man on a Benton County, Indiana farm, was promised th...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

7:40 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man, with the youngest of his nine children. After dinner the family sits around until 8:00 or 8:30, when they go to bed. There is no reading matter in the house

7:40 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man, with the youngest of his nine children...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

House and outbuilding on the farm of Sylvester Garring, tenant. Near Fowler, Indiana. Garring has had to make and pay for many repairs about the farm. The absence of a windmill makes it necessary for him to use an engine for pumping water--an additional expense

House and outbuilding on the farm of Sylvester Garring, tenant. Near F...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives. He rents this house and hires Estes to work one of his farms on a monthly wage basis

House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives....

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

6:30 p.m. Tip Estes' son, Charles, putting hay in the manger for the cattle. Near Fowler, Indiana

6:30 p.m. Tip Estes' son, Charles, putting hay in the manger for the c...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

7:45 p.m. After dinner the family sits around in the living room. This is one of the daughters sitting on the stool for the organ (which does not work). Tip Estes family near Fowler, Indiana

7:45 p.m. After dinner the family sits around in the living room. This...

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

7 a.m. Mrs. Tip Estes, wife of a hired man near Fowler, Indiana, preparing lunches for the five of her nine children who go to school

7 a.m. Mrs. Tip Estes, wife of a hired man near Fowler, Indiana, prepa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charles Miller, for twelve years a hired farm hand, moving his household goods onto the farm he has now rented to work for himself. Northeast of Fowler, Indiana

Charles Miller, for twelve years a hired farm hand, moving his househo...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Dean Folkmann operates the family tractor on his and his wife, Julie's, hog farm in Benton County, near Newhall, Iowa

Dean Folkmann operates the family tractor on his and his wife, Julie's...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2016, the farm has been in the family for 162 years. At any time, approximately 50 million hogs are being raised in the state wi... More

Visitors feed several kinds of birds that gather at the Waterfowl Habitat at Coumbia Park in Kennewick, one of eastern Washington's Tri-Cities community that also includes Pasco and Richland

Visitors feed several kinds of birds that gather at the Waterfowl Habi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Calloway G. Heath House, Route 7 & Route KK vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Calloway G. Heath House, Route 7 & Route KK vicinity, Warsaw, Benton C...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James Watson House, Hoskins, Benton County, OR

James Watson House, Hoskins, Benton County, OR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS OR-30 Building/structure dates: 1852 Initial Construction

Osage Creek Bridge, Spanning Osage Creek at County Road 71, Healing Springs, Benton County, AR

Osage Creek Bridge, Spanning Osage Creek at County Road 71, Healing Sp...

Significance: The Osage Creek is an excellent Arkansan example of a Pratt through truss bridge. Constructed by an unknown builder in the early twentieth century, its economy of materials and proven structural ... More

Osage Creek Bridge, Spanning Osage Creek at County Road 71, Healing Springs, Benton County, AR

Osage Creek Bridge, Spanning Osage Creek at County Road 71, Healing Sp...

Significance: The Osage Creek is an excellent Arkansan example of a Pratt through truss bridge. Constructed by an unknown builder in the early twentieth century, its economy of materials and proven structural ... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, Richland, Benton County, WA

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, ...

Significance: Building 232-Z, a waste incinerator facility, was constructed to recover plutonium from miscellaneous solid wastes produced by the adjacent Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), the Plutonium Isolation... More

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, Richland, Benton County, WA

Plutonium Finishing Plant, Waste Incinerator Facility, 200 West Area, ...

Significance: Building 232-Z, a waste incinerator facility, was constructed to recover plutonium from miscellaneous solid wastes produced by the adjacent Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), the Plutonium Isolation... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Elkhorn Tavern, Telegraph Road, Pea Ridge, Benton County, AR

Elkhorn Tavern, Telegraph Road, Pea Ridge, Benton County, AR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS AR-23 Building/structure dates: after. 1830- before. 1840 Building/structure dates: 1858 Subsequent Work Building/structu... More

Elkhorn Tavern, Telegraph Road, Pea Ridge, Benton County, AR

Elkhorn Tavern, Telegraph Road, Pea Ridge, Benton County, AR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS AR-23 Building/structure dates: after. 1830- before. 1840 Building/structure dates: 1858 Subsequent Work Building/structu... More

Elkhorn Tavern, Telegraph Road, Pea Ridge, Benton County, AR

Elkhorn Tavern, Telegraph Road, Pea Ridge, Benton County, AR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS AR-23 Building/structure dates: after. 1830- before. 1840 Building/structure dates: 1858 Subsequent Work Building/structu... More

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

Significance: 185-D, 189-D and 190-D, building in what is commonly known as the 190-D complex, were completed in December, 1944 in conjunction with the start-up of D-Reactor. (190-DA, 195-D, and 1724-DA, the o... More

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

Significance: 185-D, 189-D and 190-D, building in what is commonly known as the 190-D complex, were completed in December, 1944 in conjunction with the start-up of D-Reactor. (190-DA, 195-D, and 1724-DA, the o... More

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

D-Reactor Complex, Area 100-D, Richland, Benton County, WA

Significance: 185-D, 189-D and 190-D, building in what is commonly known as the 190-D complex, were completed in December, 1944 in conjunction with the start-up of D-Reactor. (190-DA, 195-D, and 1724-DA, the o... More

House, Route KK, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

House, Route KK, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Significance: One of the few remaining log cabins in the area, this 1-1/2 story example is unusual for the frame addition with dormers which made the house livable beyond many of its contemporaries. Survey num... More

House, Route KK, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

House, Route KK, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Significance: One of the few remaining log cabins in the area, this 1-1/2 story example is unusual for the frame addition with dormers which made the house livable beyond many of its contemporaries. Survey num... More

Bryan's Crossing Bridge, Spanning South Grand River, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Bryan's Crossing Bridge, Spanning South Grand River, Warsaw, Benton Co...

Survey number: HAER MO-19 Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peal Bend School, Route KK & Valley View vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Peal Bend School, Route KK & Valley View vicinity, Warsaw, Benton Coun...

Significance: One of the few remaining examples of a one-room country schoolhouse. Survey number: HABS MO-1242

Iowa Institution for the Education of the Blind, Vinton, Benton County, IA

Iowa Institution for the Education of the Blind, Vinton, Benton County...

Significance: After the University of Iowa, the Iowa institution for the Education of the Blind is the oldest state educational institution in Iowa. Its main building is the oldest of those of any state "chari... More

Frantz-Dunn House, Hoskins, Benton County, OR

Frantz-Dunn House, Hoskins, Benton County, OR

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Fratz-Dunn House was built circa 1869 on the remains of Fort Hoskins (1856). The Frantz family purchased the decommissioned fort site in 1866 and proceed... More

Samuel Kinkead House, South Grand River & Little Tebo Creek vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Samuel Kinkead House, South Grand River & Little Tebo Creek vicinity, ...

Significance: A fine example of a large 2-story L-pan house. It is typical of its period and locale in the use of the peaked window and door lintels, and quite extraordinary for the treatment of the facade with... More

Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, Spanning Columbia River, Pasco, Franklin County, WA

Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, Spanning Columbia River, Pasco, Franklin Count...

Significance: First of three cantilever structures built across the Columbia in 1920's - representative of long span truss bridges. / The Pasco-Kennewick Bridge was constructed in 1922 to replace an outmoded fe... More

James W. Seavey Hop Driers, 0.6 mile East from junction of Highway 99 & Alexander Avenue, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

James W. Seavey Hop Driers, 0.6 mile East from junction of Highway 99 ...

Significance: The James W. Seavey Hop Driers are the only known remaining intact examples of large-scale hop drying complexes in the Willamette Valley. Containing its paired kilns, this complex in Covallis is ... More

Spavinaw Creek Bridge, Spans Spavinaw Creek at Benton County Road 29, Gravette, Benton County, AR

Spavinaw Creek Bridge, Spans Spavinaw Creek at Benton County Road 29, ...

Significance: Though bedstead trusses were widespread near the turn of the century, the Spavinaw Creek Bridge is now unique as the only surviving example of a bedstead truss in Arkansas. Built in 1909, this se... More

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

B Reactor, Richland, Benton County, WA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

6:00 a.m. Tip Estes waters his horses before hitching them to a wagon. Near Fowler, Indiana

6:00 a.m. Tip Estes waters his horses before hitching them to a wagon....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

7:45 a.m. Tip Estes' children watch their mother make a pie. Near Fowler, Indiana

7:45 a.m. Tip Estes' children watch their mother make a pie. Near Fowl...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Barn and only horse on C.V. Hibbs' eighty-acre farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. This farm is owner-operated, but heavily mortgaged

Barn and only horse on C.V. Hibbs' eighty-acre farm near Boswell, Bent...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmhouse on the owner-operated one hundred sixty acre farm of Roy Conner. This farm, near Templeton, Benton County, Indiana, carries a small mortgage

Farmhouse on the owner-operated one hundred sixty acre farm of Roy Con...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tip Estes, Indiana hired hand, with four of his nine children. Near Fowler

Tip Estes, Indiana hired hand, with four of his nine children. Near Fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

There is inadequate space for machinery on the farm rented by Sylvester Garring near Fowler, Indiana

There is inadequate space for machinery on the farm rented by Sylveste...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barn and corn crib on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated by August Grettencord. This farm is southwest of Fowler, Indiana

Barn and corn crib on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated b...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Klamath Basin rancher. Came from Benton County, Arkansas, sixty-four years ago. Won't raise potatoes. "Potatoes and pool rooms have ruined this country." Klamath Falls, Oregon

Klamath Basin rancher. Came from Benton County, Arkansas, sixty-four y...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Benton County Courthouse in Vinton, Iowa

The Benton County Courthouse in Vinton, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

A portion of Dean and Julie Folkmann's hog farm in Benton County, near Newhall, Iowa

A portion of Dean and Julie Folkmann's hog farm in Benton County, near...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2016, the farm has been in the family for 162 years. At any time, approximately 50 million hogs are being raised in the state wi... More

Tidy Benton County, Iowa, farm - Drawing. Public domain image.

Tidy Benton County, Iowa, farm - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture in the foreground gives a clue as to the kind of livestock raised here. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmi... More

Calloway G. Heath House, Route 7 & Route KK vicinity, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

Calloway G. Heath House, Route 7 & Route KK vicinity, Warsaw, Benton C...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Pasco-Kennewick Transmission Line, Columbia River Crossing Towers, Columbia Drive & Gum Street, Kennewick, Benton County, WA

Pasco-Kennewick Transmission Line, Columbia River Crossing Towers, Col...

Significance: The three electrical transmission line towers between Pasco Kennewick are the earliest known effort to span the Columbia River, by aerial means, with electrical lines strung between steel frame to... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets, Van Buren & Western Avenues, Corvallis, Benton County, OR

Corvallis Downtown Historic District, Bounded by First & Sixth Streets...

Significance: The Corvallis Downtown Historic District is locally significant as a commercial and social center in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The district reflects the commercial growth of the city, as we... More

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