Site of Frazier’s Chapel

Preston, Maryland, 1785

Built by Rev. Freeborn Garrettson and Captain William Frazier. Early Methodist pastors included Jesse Lee, Joseph Everette and Bishops Francis Asbury and John Emory. Remodeled and named Bethesda 1849. Present church built 1875. Rebuilt 1958.

Marker is at the ...

Founder’s Square

In 1871, Louis and Frank Rivers constructed a one-and-a-half story log building at the present northeast corner of N. Chestnut Ave. and W. Depot St. This building served as a residence, hotel, tavern, and store. The brothers heard that the ...

Camp of Dresser's Battery

McClernand's Division

U. S.

Camp of

Dresser's Battery,

"D", 2d Ill. Lt. Arty., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 3/4 mile south, at Water-Oaks Pond.

Marker is on State Highway 22 0.7 miles south of Pittsburg ...

Belleville Reformed Church Cemetery

Josiah Hornblower is buried in this cemetery along with his wife and many of Belleville’s early settlers. Sixty-two Revolutionary soldiers are also buried here. It could be that no other town in the United States can make such a ...

Battle of Germantown

The Battle of Germantown occurred at Cliveden, the country home of Pa. Chief Justice Benjamin Chew, on Oct. 4, 1777. A British regiment occupied Cliveden and defended it from full assault by the colonials. Over 70 soldiers died on these ...

14th Missouri Infantry

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

U. S.

Army of the Tennessee.

14th Missouri Infantry,

McArthur's (2d) Brigade,

W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division.

On Monday April 7, 1862 this regiment acted as skirmishers for the 3d Division and as support for Thompson's battery.

Marker is on State Highway ...

Bryan's Air Mail Field

Here, on September 6, 1918, Bryans’ Air Mail Field began oeprations as one of Ohio’s first official airfields ith the arrival of a survey flight to establish air mail service between New York and Chicago. Scheduled servcie began on July ...

Peter Francisco

Abandoned on the wharf at City

Point, now Hopewell, in 1765, he was

taken as a small boy to Buckingham

County, where he grew to gigantic

size. Enlisting at 16 he served

under Washington with distinction

in the North. Later in the South

he became a hero ...

History of The Big White Pine

This tree was a landmark near the Iron-Ashland Co. line northeast of Glidden, Wis. The first section of 20 ft. is in Glidden. Les got the next cut of 12 ft.

The tree measured 6 ft. on the stump. The tree ...

Town Of Cassville

In this valley was once situated the proud town of Cassville, begun in July 1833, as the seat of justice for Cass County and soon the center of trade and travel in the region recently comprising the Cherokee Nation. Both ...