History of Greenville-Bond County

Illinois Confederacy Indians roamed this prairie land, rich in game, which became Illinois County of Virginia. Ceded in 1784 to the United States it was successively included in the Northwest, Indiana; and in 1809, Illinois Territory. Formed in 1817, Bond ...

In Memory of the Bravery of Our Pioneer Officers

Scene of the robbery of two coaches of the Pioneer Stage Line running between Virginia City, Nevada, and Sacramento, California, on the night of June 30, 1864, at about ten o’clock. Perpetrated by a gang of fourteen men, eight sacks ...

Menomineeville, Seat of Justice

In 1823, James Doty...

was appointed by President Monroe as a district judge for the northern and western Michigan Territory, which included what is now the state of Wisconsin. Doty set up the region's new court in an empty log building.

Three ...

Battle of Bennington

Second Engagement

At this point occurred the defeat of Colonel

Breyman, who commanded a force of 600 men sent

by General Burgoyne to reinforce Colonel Baum.

Colonel Seth Warner and his regiment of Vermont

Rangers "Green Mountain Boys" distinguished

themselves ...

Santa Anna's Surrender Ratified

Gen. Vicente Filasola, Second in Command of Mexican armies in Texas War for Independence, fled from area of his nation's defeat at San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. Filasola's aim was to go to Mexico with his army.

After he had ...

Campaign of 1781

Lafayette, marching southward from Raccoon Ford, camped here, June 8-9, 1781.

Marker is at the intersection of Lafayette Drive (County Route 741) and County Route 602, on the right when traveling west on Lafayette Drive.

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Battle of Bennington

First Engagement

General John Stark with New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts Militia defeated and captured an expeditionary force sent by General Burgoyne and commanded by Colonel Baum. This was one of the first decisive victories in the War of the Revolution.

Marker ...

The Significance of the Port

Waterways are transportation...

and geographic location is everything. The sparkling waters of Green Bay and sweeping rivers feeding into it

have attracted numerous industries over the past few hundred years. The French fur-trading empire of the

early 1700s gave way to harvesting the ...

Buford Battleground

[Front]

In order that all may continue to share the sentiments of that group of patriotic citizens of Lancaster County who erected a monument here on June 2, 1860 the inscriptions of this memorial are the same as those on ...

The First Soldier to Fall

When General Robert E. Lee’s invading army overran the Union garrison at Winchester, Virginia, on June 15, 1863, elements of the 1st New York “Lincoln” Cavalry covered the retreat. Company C, under Captain William Boyd, continued to harass the Confederates ...