Benjamin Welch Owens, CSA

(1836-1917)

On June 19, 1863, during the War Between the States (1861-65), Private Owens of the 1st Maryland Artillery, Confederate States of America, performed heroically at the Battle of Stephenson's Depot. Owens, born and raised in West River, Anne Arundel County, ...

Newtown Library Company

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 2

The third home of the Newtown Library Company is located at 114 East Centre Avenue at the corner of Centre Avenue and Congress Street. The Newtown Library Company was founded in 1760 and it is ...

Burdell Mansion

A major significant change occurred in 1911 when James Burdell (Galen and Mary’s son) hired a contractor for the then princely sun of $15,000 to expand and convert the wood frame building into a 26-room mansion. Interior fireplaces and a ...

Pvt. Benjamin Welch Owens

An Outstanding Example of Courage

This monument, dedicated on June 17, 1999, honors the memory of a local man, Benjamin Welch Owens, who left his nearby West River farm to join Confederate forces during the Civil War. Owens was among the ...

Carnegie Library

Constructed 1909

This building has been placed on the

National Register of

Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

The Carnegie Building

100 Years of Service

1909 - 2009

Marker is at the intersection of 17th Street and Broadway, on the right when traveling south on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miller's Battery - Eshleman's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Artillery Reserve

Eshleman's Battalion Miller's Battery

Three Napoleons

July 3 Advanced before daylight into position about 100 yards north of the Peach Orchard. This Battery fired the signal guns for the cannonade preceding Longstreet's ...

The Boeing-Vertol A/ACH47A Helicopter Gunship

In 1964, the U.S. Army was seeking a heavily armed helicopter suitable for a combat operations in Vietnam. Boeing-Vertol proposed a modified version of the CH47 Chinook, which the Army promptly accepted. An order for eleven of the aircraft was ...

The Beloit Industrial Institute

Marker Front:

The Beloit Industrial Institute was founded in 1888 by Industrial Missionary Association, an area subdivision of the American Missionary Associations. The President of the Association, Dr. Charles B. Curtis, was a Presbyterian missionary and educator from Wisconsin who established ...