The Prairie States Forestry Project

The Prairie States Forestry Project was initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to combat the severe wind-caused soil erosion of the Dust Bowl days. From 1935 through 1942, the U.S. Forest Service, working with the Works Progress Administration ...

Robert Kirkwood, Jr.

Born in 1756, Robert Kirkwood, Jr. spent his youth on the family farm several miles north of Newark. Kirkwood eventually enrolled at the Newark Academy, later to become the University of Delaware. When the American Revolution began, Kirkwood was commissioned ...

Harrison County Jail

First Log Jail erected 1809. Spier Spencer, First Sheriff, was killed 1811 commanding the Harrison County Yellow Jackets in the Battle of Tippecanoe.

During first twelve years, Harrison County had a whipping post where justice was meted out by floggings.

Second Jail ...

Hanks Bros and Jones Hardware

This Property has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of The Interior

Hank Bros and Jones Hardware 1897

G.E. Hank *Hank* Maj. T.T. Jones

Marker is on Broadway Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John Wesley

Founder under God of World Methodism

. . . being an exact copy of the statue standing in the forecourt of Wesley’s Chapel, Bristol, England, presented by the Right Hon. the Lord Rank on behalf of the Methodist Church, Great ...

The John Hughes Cabin

John Hughes, class of 1826, fourth bishop (1838) and first archbishop of New York (1850-1864), born in County Tyrone Ireland (1797), immigrated in 1817.

A gardener and mason, Hughes was employed the 10th of November, 1819, by Fr. John DuBois (founder ...

Governor Joseph Maull Carey

Born in Milton on January 19, 1845, he was the son of merchant Robert H. Carey and his wife, Susan. Educated in local schools, he later attended Union College and received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. An ...

J. W. Denver Williams, Jr.

In memory of

J W Denver Williams Jr

Oct 14 1922 - May 17 1945

Corporal 29th Marines 6th Division

Killed in action on Okinawa

Marker is at the intersection of Rombach Avenue (U.S. 22) and Park Drive, on the right when traveling east on ...

Witherspoon’s Ferry / Johnsonville

Witherspoon’s Ferry. In use during the American Revolution, Witherspoon’s Ferry was the site at which Francis Marion accepted command of the Williamsburg Militia in 1780. Ownership of the ferry lands passed from Robert to John Witherspoon in 1787; in 1802 ...

Lake Jovita

On Febraury 15, 1881, Judge Edmund F. Dunne and captain Hugh Dunne, his cousin, came across this clear lake and named it for Saint Jovita whose feast day it was. Judge Dunne established San Antonio Catholic Colony on land he ...