Half-Moon Inn

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 1

The Half-Moon Inn (popularly known as the Court Inn) is located at 101-103 Court Street. The south portion of the Inn was the original one and one-half story frame cottage of Margaret and Joseph Thornton ...

Old Federal Road

This highway is part of the Old Federal Road, an early thoroughfare that linked Georgia and west Tennessee across the Indian Country. It began on the southeast boundary of the Cherokees, in the direction of Athens, Georgia and led toward ...

Knight's Ferry

Knight's Ferry was founded by Captain William Knight, a member of Fremont's expedition of 1844. This town was a center of great mining activity and was a distributing point for the mother lode country.

In 1854 the first sawmill and flour ...

Pvt. Alfred Cannon

95th O.V.I. Co-D

8-18-1862 to 1-21-1865

P.O.W.

Resident of Canal Winchester

enlisted to preserve the Union.

Taken prisoner at Brices

Crossroads, MS. and marched

to Andersonville, GA., Confederate

prison. He gave up his place

of exchange to a friend stating,

"Go to your family". Pvt. Cannon

died at Florence, SC., Confederate

prison ...

"Old Reformer" Cannon

ca. 1764

The history of the brass cannon reflects the history of the Upstate of South Carolina during some of its most critical eras of conflict and change. The "Old Reformer" is also one of the oldest artifacts in the Upstate, ...

Sanford State Farmers' Market

On December 19, 1934, the first state owned Farmers' Market in the nation was dedicated on this site at the corner of 13th and French Avenue, Sanford, Florida. Located on 20 acres acquired by the City of Sanford and Seminole ...

Father Adalbert Inama -- St. Norbert House

Father Adalbert Inama a Norbertine Missionary was born in Wilton Tyrol Austria on December 26, 1798. He came to the Roxbury - Sac Prairie area in November 1845. Early the next year he built an 18 x 20 foot log ...

Frederick County Va. / West Virginia

(West Facing Side): Frederick County Va.

Area 435 Square Miles

Formed in 1738 from Orange and named for Frederick, Prince of Wales, father of King George III. Several battles were fought in the vicinity of Winchester 1862-1864

(East Facing Side): West Virginia

West Virginia ...

Head of Battle Isle

? Head of Battle Isle.

_____________________

On the eve of Aug. 1, 1832,

Black Hawk and his men

with a flag of truce, went to

the head of this island to sur-

render to the captain of steamer

"Warrior." Whites on boat asked

Are you Winnebagoes or Sacs."

Sacs ...

Notre Dame Fieldhouse

[Main Marker]

Site of

Notre Dame Fieldhouse

where varsity and intramural athletes shook down the thunder for seventy years 1898-1968.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a special University convocation in the Fieldhouse December 9, 1935.

The building was razed in 1983.

[Adjacent Marker]

- The Old Fieldhouse ...