13th Kentucky Infantry

Boyle's Brigade - Crittenden's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

13th Kentucky Infantry,

Boyle's (11th) Brigade,

Crittenden's (5th) Division.

This regiment was engaged here at 10.30 a.m. April 7, 1862. It advanced 500 yards, was driven back to this place, and after several movements it advanced ...

The N.P. Yowell and the Garner-Woodruff Buildings

Erected - 1910

the N.P. Yowell Building was built in 1910 for a prominent Orlando merchant of the same name. It was designed by Jacksonville architect W.B. Talley, and built by George Venable. When opened, it was a dry goods store. ...

John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. This event changed the city – and the world – forever. As a tribute to this extraordinary man, John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza was dedicated on ...

The Rise of the Textile Mill Communities

In the decades following the Civil War, the textile industry thrust the South into a period of rapid industrialization. In North Carolina, construction of railroads began through Piedmont “backcountry,” and cities sprung up in their paths. Piedmont farmers, who had ...

Fort Foot

About 1813 the William Eaton family and other restless pioneers considered Fort LaMotte too crowded and therefore constructed a new stockade on a site several hundred yards North of here. A family trait of the Eatons, large feet, led to ...

11th Kentucky Infantry

Smith's Brigade - Crittenden's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

11th Kentucky Infantry,

Smith's (14th) Brigade,

Crittenden's (5th) Division.

This regiment was engaged here at 10.30 a.m. April 7, 1862. It advanced to the wheat field where it assisted in

the capture of a battery but being ...

Gov. Augustus C. French

On this site stood the home of Augustus C. French (1808-1864) when he was elected the ninth Governor of Illinois.

The early settlers in Illinois came mostly from Southern States so that French, a native of New Hampshire, was the first ...

Glenn Curtiss Flight

From This Ground

Glenn Curtiss

Began The First Long

Distance Airplane Flight

Albany To New York

May 29, 1910.

Marker is on Smith Boulevard, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bird Effigy Mound

500-1000 A.D.

This mound was constructed by people of a hunting and gathering culture who met periodically at ceremonial grounds like this one to bury their dead.

Marker can be reached from Burrows Road 0.1 miles west of Sherman Avenue, on the ...

McDonnell F-4C Phantom

A masterpiece of engineering, the F-4 was originally designed for use aboard Navy aircraft carriers. In 1962 the Air Force adopted a ground attack version of the F-4 after it had easily outperformed its F-106 in head-to-head competition. The F-4 ...