Planted in Memory of Theodore Roosevelt

Planted in Memory Of

Theodore Roosevelt

On the 100th Anniversary Of

His Birth October 27, 1958

Capt. David Hawley Society C.A.R.

Marker is on Academy Hill 0.1 miles east of Main Street (Route 113), on the left when traveling ...

Kuroda Field

Named in honor of Staff Sergeant Robert T. Kuroda, 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

On 20 October 1944, during the battle of Bruyeres, France, Sergeant Kuroda led his squad in an attack against a strongly defended enemy position. He deployed his squad ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

A Fruitless Campaign

“In the fight of Johnson’s Division on last Friday I was under as warm a musketry fire as I have experienced for a good while—certainly worse than I have been in since Sharpsburg.” — Let. Col. Alexander S. ...

The Battle of Brooklyn

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed to the world that thirteen British colonies had joined together to create a new nation: the United States of America. Here in Brooklyn, only two months later, the ...

Wisconsin's First School for the Deaf

In 1839 Ebenezer Cheseboro emigrated to Wisconsin from New York and settled in the town of Darien, two miles west of Delavan on the Janesville road. Due to the lack of a school for his deaf daughter, Ariadna, a teacher ...

Fayette County Courthouse

About 1890, the structural safety of Fayette County's third courthouse came into question, and plans began for the building of this structure to serve as the seat of justice for the county. The commissioners court hired San Antonio architect James ...

Final Honors

The Wright brothers were the most memorialized of Americans in the 20th century. Of all their countrymen, only Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln have inspired commemorative zeal to match.

Wright biographer Tom Crouch

To perfect a flying machine was nothing short of a ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

The Confederate Wheel

“Several efforts were made to charge the hostile line, but as these attempts were made by single brigades, without proper deliberation and without co-operation on the part of the other forces to the right and left, they naturally ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

The Stonewall Brigade

“We soon struck the Yankee skirmishers and drove them back through the woods to an open field, where we ran into French’s entire corps and into about the hottest place that could be imagined.” — Capt. William B. ...

Old Fort Wilkinson

Where treaty of limits took place

between the United States and

Creek Nation of Indians

June 16 1802, ratified June 11 1803

this treaty was signed by James Wilkinson

Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickins. Commissioners

on the part of the United States and

forty chiefs and warriors.

Marker can ...