Civil War Battle [and] Drum Creek Treaty

In May, 1863, a mounted party of about twenty Confederates, nearly all commissioned officers, set out from Missouri to recruit troops in the West. Several miles east of here they were challenged by loyal Osage Indians. In a running fight ...

The Bloody Benders

Near here are the Bender Mounds, named for the infamous Bender family ~~ John, his wife, son, and daughter Kate ~~ who settled here in 1871. Kate soon gained notoriety as a self proclaimed healer and spiritualist. Secretly, the four ...

Bartlett Hotel

Before the Bartlett Hotel, the Grandview Hotel, a wooden structure built in 1895 stood here as the first two-story building in Jerome. It had rooms for dances, dining and sleeping. In 1898 the structure was destroyed by fire. The Bartlett ...

Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church

Mother of 5 Churches

[Front]:

1768 Bethel Methodist Society

Org. at Indian Springs by

Rev. Geo. Whitefield and families of

Arnold, Giraud, Taylor, Sullivan

Mitchell, Box, Wood

1825 Rec'd. Meth. Cone Rev. Barnett Smith

1842 Sunday School Org.

G.L. Riley, Elisha South, J.M. Eppes

Rev. John Humbert, Judge T.J. Sullivan

1854-1884 ...

USS Balao (SS-285)

Battle Flag of USS BALAO [illustration]

Displacement: 1,526 [tons](surfaced), 2,414 (submerged)

Length: 311' 9"

Draft: 16' 10"

Speed: 20.25 k. (sufaced), 8.75 k. (submerged)

Complement: 6 officers and 60 enlisted men

Armament: 10 21" torpedo tubes, 1 4" gun, 2 ...

Blauvelt House

1835-36

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Occupancy

Karl Kirchner 1936

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Street (County Route 8) and Main Street, on the right when traveling west on Washington Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

"The Liberty Garden"

Dedicated to the men and women who

have served in the Armed Forces of

the United States of America, those

who lost their lives preserving our

freedom and the pioneer families

who settled Hardin County

“God Bless America and the

Freedom We All Enjoy”

September 11, 2002

Marker is ...

Dr. Morris Bartow House

1835

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Restored by

Edward & Molly Samett 1993

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Old Tappan Road (County Route 8), on the left when traveling north on ...

Mosby and Sneden

The Grey Ghost and the Artist

If you had been standing here at dawn on November 27, 1863, you would have seen Col. John S. Mosby and his partisan rangers herding a string of mules bearing dejected-looking Union prisoners. Among the ...

The Irish in Columbus

[Marker Front]:

Thousands of Irish immigrants came to Columbus to seek personal and religious freedom. With the "Great Hunger" in Ireland and the completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the National Road, immigration to Columbus increased in the mid ...