Site of Quick Airplane

Construction And Flight

On this site, inventor and early aviation pioneer William Lafayette Quick and his sons designed and built the first airplane to be flown in the State of Alabama. Construction began in 1900. Awaiting an engine, it took nearly ...

Flytown

Flytown was democracy’s melting pot for

the city of Columbus. But even more important

it became known as a port-of-entry for the

immigrant settlers of Central Ohio. New

arrivals found friends and relatives who

guided them through the initial steps of

becoming naturalized Americans. Here was ...

The Battle of Craney Island

On the morning of June 22, 1813, during the War of 1812, British naval and marine forces under the command of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren landed here at Hoffler Creek. American armed militia under the command of Gen. Robert ...

“Lord’s Gift”

1050 Acres. Granted to Henry Coursey, 1658. 1000 acres by order of Lord Baltimore for “conspicuous faithfulness to him during the late contest” (the Uprising of 1652 by Richard Bennett and William Claiborne). The 50 acres were for transporting himself ...

8th Ohio Infantry

Carroll's Brig. 3d Div. 2d Corps, July 2, 3, 1863.

(Front Inscription):8th Ohio Infantry,

Carroll's Brig. 3d Div.

2d Corps.

July 2,3, 1863.

(Left Side Inscription):

The 8th Ohio Infantry under Lt. Col. Franklin Sawyer took this position at 4 p.m. July 2 after a brisk ...

Companies G and I, 4th Ohio Infantry

1st Brigade, 3d Division, 2d Corps

(Front):

Companies G and I,

4th Ohio Infantry,

1st Brigade,

3d Division, 2d Corps,

July 2, 1863.

(Left):

At 3 p.m., July 2, 1863, while the regiment was lying on Cemetery Ridge, Companies G and I, 4th Ohio Infantry, detached under Captain ...

Battle of Slippery Hill

August 13, 1813

American Videttes skirmished with approximately 300 British troops under the command of Col. Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith as they advanced on Queenstown along this road. Two British soldiers and Beckwith’s horse were killed. Fearful of being cut off ...

Franklin County Hemp / Hemp in Kentucky

Side A

Kentucky River Mills began making hemp yarns for backs of Brussels carpets in 1878, and started producing binder twine in 1879. Finest quality imported machinery used. Employed 125 persons year round. In 1941, received contract from Navy for $148,500 ...

Barber Fitness Center

Colonel William E. Barber

United States Marine Corps

Commanding Officer, Company F, Second Battalion

Seventh Marines, First Marine Division

Awarded the Medal of Honor, Chosin Reservoir, Korea, from

28 November to 2 December, 1950

This gallant Marine fought bravely for his Country

Marker is on Barnett Avenue ...

“Grandfather’s House”

In 1844 Lydia Maria Child (1802 – 1880) wrote of her childhood visits to her grandfather’s house at 114 South Street in the poem “Over the River and Through the Woods” from her home at the corner of Ashland and ...