Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Lincoln, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

Marker is on South Kickapoo Street south of Broadway Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sheboygan Indian Mound Park

?Within these fifteen acres of ancient woodland and winding stream lie 18 rare Indian burial mounds, dated about 500-750 A.D. Their prehistoric builders, ancestors of the Wisconsin Woodland Indians, are called the Effigy Mound People because of their mysterious custom ...

Site of Goldsborough House

Circa 1798

By that year, a 2-story brick house, measuring 40 by 24 feet and described as “not yet fully complete,” was built on a 4-acre lot of “Chesterfield,” deeded in 1792 from Mary Nicholson to her daughter Henrietta. Henritta’s husband, ...

Libby, McNeill and Libby Cannery

On this 6 1/4 acre site, Libby, McNeill and Libby opened the San Joaquin Valley's largest cannery on July 18, 1911, less than four hectic months after the site was acquired and construction plans were announced. The initial construction cost ...

Converse Basin Grove

One of the largest stands of Giant Sequoias, it contained some of the finest Big Trees. The grove was logged as a private land between 1897 and 1907, first by the Sanger Lumber Company and later by Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, ...

Orangeburgh and Ninety Six Road

This road, connecting

Orangeburgh and Ninety Six,

was laid out under provision

of an act of the

General Assembly of

South Carolina

Passed April 7, 1770

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Marker placed here by

Eutaw Chapter, D.A.R.

1917

Marker is on Neeses ...

Buffalo Trace

On July 16th, 1773, James McAfee, George McAfee, Robert McAfee, James McCoun Jr., Samuel Adams and Hancock Taylor following the Buffalo Trace from Big Bone lick, crossed the Kentucky River at this point, and made the first survey upon it.

Here ...

Old Stone Presbyterian Church

War Time Hospital

This Church, organized September 2, 1837, before the Cherokee Indians were removed from this area, was the first church organized by white settlers in the bounds of the present Catoosa County, according to available records. The organizers were ...

Berry's Tavern

100 feet north is site of

Berry's Tavern

& Ferry 1789, first bridge over Genesee River 1804

200 feet south is site of old ford

Marker is on West Main Street (U.S. 20) 0.4 miles west of Wadsworth Avenue (New York Route 39), on ...

Potomac River Dory Boat

The Potomac River dory boat originated around the 1880s and was built almost exclusively within this area of St. Mary's County, Maryland. How the name dory boat came to be is unknown, but its unique design features a V-bottom, planked ...