General Comte Jean de Rochambeau Memorial

[front, south face:]

Rochambeau

[back, north face:]

"We have been contemporaries

and

fellow labourers

in the cause

of liberty,

and we have lived

together

as brothers should do,

in harmonious friendship,"

Washington to Rochambeau

February 1, 1784

By the ...

Lincoln and the Black Hawk War

On May 8, 1832, while encamped approximately one mile west of this point, Abraham Lincoln was mustered into the military service of the United States. Captain Lincoln's company was mustered into state service at Beardstown April 28, the day before ...

Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II

S/N 75-0270

On 05 January 1993, the 354th Fighter Squadron "Bulldogs" activated at McChord AFB, geographically separated from their parent unit, the 355th Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ. While at McChord, the 354th flew over 15,000 sorties in 11 deployments to operations ...

Qualla Boundary

Soco Gap, initial point

of U.S. survey, 1876,

of Cherokee Reservation,

created through earlier

efforts of W. H. Thomas,

White Cherokee Chief.

Marker is on Soco Road (U.S. 19) just west of the Blue Ridge Parkway overpass, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Route of Abraham Lincoln

1832 and 1859

Twice in his lifetime Abraham Lincoln is known to have traveled within sight of the Rock River east of this marker.

Lincoln passed this way July 2, 1832, as a private in a mounted company of Illinois militia ...

Stephens' Brigade

Cheatham's Division - Polks Corps

C.S.

Stephens' (2d) Brigade,

7th Ky., 9th Tenn., 6th Tenn.,

Cheatham's (2d) Div., Polk's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

These regiments of this Brigade, in order from left to right as above, were engaged here in two unsuccessful charges at about ...

Fort Bend

Built in November, 1821 by William Little, William Smithers, Charles Beard, Joseph Polly and Henry Holster. Its name was given to the county when created in 1837.

Marker is on Jackson Street near South 2nd Street, on the right when ...

381st Bomb Group (H) B-17 and 432nd Air Service Group

In Remembrance of Those Who Served

Dedicated to the honor of those

members who valiantly served and

gallantly died in defense of the

Free World, against tyranny and

oppression, so that we may all live

in peace and freedom with dignity

AAF Station 167

Ridgewell, Essex, England

Flight Squadrons

532nd, ...

Boise State University

Expanding from a two-year community college (1932-1965) to a campus with a graduate program, Boise State was designated as a university in 1974.

Originating as an Episcopalian academy founded in 1892, this institution was located a mile north of here until ...

Captain William Clark and Private Reuben Field

On July 27, 1804, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery left their “White Catfish” camp and proceeded up the Missouri River. After traveling some distance, Clark “took one man R. Field and walked on Shore with a View of Examoning ...