Donald Campbell Willard

This tablet is erected

in memory of

Donald Campbell Willard

University of Pennsylvania, A.B. 1910

in recognition of his loyal service

as first president of

Carson Long Institute

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Albany

1887

On Jan. 11, 1887, the Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company, Inc. was formed under the leadership E. C. Gordon, C.C. Harris and W.W. Littlejohn. With a capital investment of $7,500.000, the company purchased 5600 acres of land, including 100 ...

Wilber B. Miller

Team Leader / Maintenance Personnel

In 1941, the War Department announced the creation of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first all-African American combat unit in the Army Air Forces. This unit trained at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Fifty African-American Kelly workers ...

Haseltine Cobblestone House

1842

Colonel Orien Haseltine, of Andover, Vermont, came to Vernon/Big Bend in 1836, following his two eldest sons, Orien Jr. and Curtis who came in 1836, first settlers claiming 400 acres. Vernon was named by Haseltine in honor of George Washington’s ...

Fort Woodbury

Historical Site

Defenses of Washington

1861-1865

Fort Woodbury

During the Civil War, the Union built a series of forts to defend Washington, D.C. By 1865 there were 33 earthen fortifications in the Arlington Line. Fort Woodbury (1861) was part of this defensive strategy. Built ...

The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Vernon

Covenanter built in 1854

Organized by Scottish settlers in October, 1848 with Rev. James Milligan at the home of James Wright Sr.

The last regular services were held in 1920.

This was the only Covenanter church ever formed in Wisconsin.

Marker is on Big ...

Train Depot / Street Car Bridge

Train Depot

Early passenger service was by train. Hibbing's Train Depot was one block west of this spot. Many immigrants seeking work arrived here and many of these same men left from this same depot to serve their new country ...

Herring Box School

Under a great live oak and near this spot stood the first school in the old town of Mayfield, now a part of Palo Alto. It was erected in 1855, pioneering what was to become the community's major interest, education. ...

Cobble Hill Historic District

New York Landmark Preservation Foundation

Cobble Hill is an exceptionally rich district both historically and architecturally. Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, was born at 197 Amity Street in 1854. Among the distinguished architects' work represented here is 296 Clinton ...

Hibbs Bridge

Constructed c. 1829

Restored 2007

Snickersville Turnpike Association

remembers

Kathy Mitchell

Marker is at the intersection of Snickersville Turnpike (County Route 734) and Hibbs Bridge Road, on the right when traveling east on Snickersville Turnpike.

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