Owen Lovejoy House

Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864), an influential abolitionist, lived in this house, a National Historic Landmark, which was used as a depot on the Underground Railroad. Born in Maine, Lovejoy moved to Princeton in 1838 where he was a minister for ...

Milton House

The Milton House, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed by Underground Railroad conductor and Wisconsin pioneer Joseph Goodrich. The unusual grout (lime mixed with coarse gravel and sand) house with its hexagonal three-story tower served as a local inn ...

Henderson Lewelling House

The Henderson Lewelling House is located in Salem, Iowa, the first Quaker community in Iowa, founded in 1835. Henderson Lewelling, a Quaker from Indiana, moved to Salem in 1837 with his brother and opened a general merchandise store and ...

Tabor Antislavery Historic District

The town of Tabor in southwestern Iowa played a significant role in the 1850s as a center for the western antislavery movement. Tabor found itself in a strategic position to impact the future of slavery in the West. The ...

Sulphur Springs

In early June 1805, the Corps of Discovery was met by an unexpected fork in the Missouri River. Captains Lewis and Clark spent several days exploring each branch to ascertain which one was the Missouri River and devising a plan ...

Lewis and Clark Pass

On June 30^th, 1806, Lewis and Clark stopped at Traveler’s Rest while on their eastward journey home. The leaders had agreed to split the expedition at this point in order to maximize the range of their return explorations.

Captain Lewis traveled ...

Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail-Trail

Just west of bustling downtown Jacksonville, the Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail-Trail, one of north Florida's oldest, traverses a rural setting of hardwood uplands, wetlands and pine flatwoods. A dense tree canopy shelters much of the nearly 15-mile paved path, providing habitat for ...

The Metaline Mining District

The Metaline Mining District, or Metalines for short, is located in northeastern Washington along the Pend Oreille River. Although the district’s existence was always based on the rich ores—quartz, lead, silver—found there in the late nineteenth century, its mid-twentieth-century transformation ...

Placer Mining at Chinaman Bar

Just downstream from this point, is a place known as Chinaman Bar.

During the 1850s, miners explored remote drainages throughout the American West in search of the next big strike. This activity came to Pend Oreille County in 1855 when ...

Steamboats on the Pend Oreille River

Beginning in the nineteenth century, steamboats plied navigable waterways throughout the interior West, including the 55-mile-long stretch of the Pend Oreille River between Newport and Metaline Falls. First appearing in the late-1880s, the Pend Oreille River vessels were a familiar ...