Albert Baker Football Practice Field

Central State University's Fighting Marauder football practice field is proudly dedicated in honor of Mr. Albert Baker. Mr. Baker served as a teacher and coach at Central State from 1947 until 1977, and his outstanding contributions included the building of ...

Governor Tommy G. Thompson's 1998 Address At Wisconsin's First C

On January 14, 1998, Governor Tommy G. Thompson addressed the Wisconsin Assembly at Wisconsin's First Territorial Capitol in Belmont in honor of the Sesquicentennial of Statehood. Serving more terms than any other governor in the history of Wisconsin, Governor Thompson ...

Edmundson-Fox Memorial

Near this spot William Edmundson, an English Friend, held in May 1672, the first religious service on record in Carolina.

Six months later, George Fox, Founder of the Religious Society of Friends also visited this section and held meetings among ...

Starling Medical College and St. Francis Hospital

This site, now Grant Medical Center, was the original location of the neo-gothic building that housed St. Francis Hospital and Starling Medical College, named for Columbus benefactor Lyne Starling. Established in 1849, Starling Medical College/St. Francis Hospital was significant as ...

Freeland's Station

On this site stood one of the principal stations of the Cumberland Settlements. Felix Robertson, son of Col. James Robertson and the first white child born in the Settlement, was born here, Jan. 11, 1781. On Jan. 15 the fort ...

Fortson House

1858

(Side 1):

Thomas and Elizabeth Almond settled in this area with her orphaned brother Thomas Daniel Fortson in the 1830s. In 1858, as a prominent farmer, Fortson built this Greek Revival Georgian Cottage, its surrounding outbuildings and cotton terraces. He also ...

Veterans of Foreign Wars War Memorial

In memory of our

servicemen whose

remains were

never recovered

WWI

Cpl Ralph Berger, Army

WWII

Sgt Donald Claar, Army

SOM3 Dudley Lorry, USN

Sgt Harold Niebler, AAF

1st Lt Travis Wells, AAF

S1C George Miller, USN

S1C Jessie Miller, USN

To keep faith with those who

fought and died, we the living

will continue ...

Veterans of Foreign Wars War Memorial

This memorial is dedicated to

the men and women

who served in the Armed Forces

of the United States

on foreign soil or hostile waters

in time of war

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Remarkable Plummer Family

From Riversdale to Mount Rose

Near this spot at Ingraham Street and 46th Avenue in the town of Edmonston, Adam Francis Plummer a former slave at Riversdale, moved his family to the house he built, Mount Rose, in 1870. The ten ...

9th Illinois Infantry

McArthur's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U. S.

9th Illinois Infantry,

McArthur's (2d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment occupied this position in line of battle from Sunday at 5 p.m. April 6, 1862 to Monday morning when it took ...