Jefferson Davis' Salute to Kentucky

"Kentucky, my own, my native land. God grant that peace and plenty may ever run throughout your borders. God grant that your sons and daughters may ever rise to illustrate the fame of their dead fathers and that wherever the ...

Knights Ferry No. 2

Blacksmith Shop Fire House

Built by Isaac Dakin 1853.

Destroyed by fire. Rebuilt by

voluntary labor and donations.

Dedicated 29 May 1982

Summit Lodge No. 112

F&AM

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Dent Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. ...

The Port of Leavenworth

1854 to 1875

In 1854 the river was the freeway of commerce, and every stable landing was a natural stop. The Missouri bends in at the Leavenworth area, and the current runs along a natural limestone bluff for some miles. A ...

Zero Milestone Jefferson Davis Highway

Zero Milestone

Jefferson Davis Highway

Fairview, Ky. - Biloxi, Miss.

Erected 1930 by

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

Born June 3, 1808

in Christian, now Todd Co. KY.

Died December 6, 1889

in New Orleans, LA.

Graduated West Point, 1828

Served in Indian Wars, Mexican War,

Hero of Buena Vista ...

Jefferson Davis Birthplace

Here the only President of the Confederate States of America was born June 3, 1808, the son of Samuel and Jane Cook Davis. The family moved to Mississippi during his infancy.

Marker is on Jefferson Davis Highway near Pembroke-Fairview Road (Kentucky ...

The 1918 Fire

On October 12, 1918, a massive forest fire raced through northeastern Minnesota from Sturgeon Lake to the shores of Lake Superior north of Duluth. When it was over, this region had suffered through one of Minnesota’s worst disasters.

Weather conditions ...

Confederate Park Cannon

Manufactured by the Scott Foundry of Reading, Pennsylvania, in January 1865 and February 1866, these two cannons were cast as 10-inch muzzle loading smooth bore weapons. In 1876 rifled sleeves were inserted into the gun tubes reducing the barrel diameters ...

Fulton Burying Ground

In 1798 Samuel Fulton and his father John, soldiers of the American Revolution, his mother Jane Dills Fulton, brother Thomas, brother-in-law Christopher Huston and their families, made the first permanent settlement on the bank of the Ohio River in present ...

Battle of Wisconsin Heights

On July 21, 1832, during a persistent rainstorm, the 65-year old Sac Indian leader, Black Hawk, led 60 of his Sac and Fox and Kickapoo warriors in a holding action against 700 United States militia at this location. The conflict, ...

Renfroe's Plantation

The John Renfroe house, which stood near this crossroads, marked the right flank of Federal troops moving eastward toward the Macon R. R. (Central of Georgia) in August 1864.

It was the converging point of the 15th, 16th, & 17th corps ...