Alexander B. Andrews

Railroad builder and financier, Vice-president, Southern Railroad: superintendent, North Carolina Railroad. Home is here.

Marker is on North Blount Street north of East North Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Black River Falls Forest Fire

On the dry, windy afternoon of April 27, 1977, a forest fire started south of Black River Falls. The fire quickly became a raging crown fire, traveling through the tops of the dense pine forest. This mound, directly in the ...

Brockport Central

Centralized 1927, first central school district in county, 34th in state, formed Aug. 17, 1927 from 19 area school districts

Marker is at the intersection of Allen Street and Centennial Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Allen Street.

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Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln, Illinois

Near this site Abraham Lincoln christened the Town with the juice of a watermelon when the first lots were sold on August 27, 1853.

President-Elect Lincoln spoke here, November 21, 1860, while traveling to Chicago, and Lincoln's Funeral Train stopped here, ...

Astrounaut Frank L. Culbertson

(Capt. USN)

Highway Interchanges 169 A-B of I-26

and 86 A-B of I-95 Named in Honor

of

Astrounaut Frank L. Culbertson

(Capt. USN)

Graduated Holly Hill High School 1967

BS Degree Aerospace Engineering,

US Naval Academy 1971

Naval aviator USS ...

Birthplace of General Morgan

the Rebel Raider

In this house John Hunt Morgan was born June 1, 1825. This dashing cavalry leader of the Confederacy was killed at Greeneville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1864.

This house, built in 1823, was the home, 1849-1949, of the heirs ...

Attica’s Carnegie Library

Ladies Library Association of Attica, created 1885, deeded its library building to city; city library opened 1902 with a collection of 1,500 books. Funds from Andrew Carnegie made it possible to build a new library here on land originally owned ...

Sugar Building 1906

Lower Downtown Walking Tour

The sweet smell of success pervaded the Sugar Building from 1906, when it was constructed by the Great Western Sugar Company. During the 1920's, GW became the largest producer of sugar beets in the country. The original ...

Brown Creek Soil Conservation District

First in America

Here was established the first district in America for a systematic program of land erosion control. Known as the Brown Creek District because it embraced the area of the Brown Creek Watershed, it heralded the beginning of a ...

Public Printer

This is the site of a two-story frame building occupied by Robert Blackwell, State Printer 1818-1832, and publisher of the Laws of the United States. In 1823 he became publisher of the Illinois Intelligencer newspaper. The first periodical in Illinois, ...