Site of International Hotels

Three International Hotels stood on this lot:

The first hotel, a 14 room wood structure, was built in 1860 and dismantled in 1863.

The second, a 100 room, 4 story brick building, was destroyed by the “Great Fire” of October 1875.

The third ...

Pine Hill Farm

Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, 1735-1813. Settled here 1769 and here wrote "Letters From an American Farmer" (London 1782)

Marker is on New York Route 94 ½ mile west of Hubshop Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

12th Illinois Infantry

McArthur's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U. S.

12th Illinois Infantry,

McArthur's (2d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This tablet marks the place where the 12th Illinois Infantry was engaged from 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 6, 1862. On Monday ...

Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co. Office Building

1885; Additions c. 1892 and 1909

This building is significant for its association with Madison's industrial history. It is all that remains of the once expansive Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co., a producer of farm implements and the first major ...

16th Wisconsin Infantry

Peabody's Brigade - Prentiss' Division

U. S.

16th Wisconsin Infantry,

Peabody's (1st) Brig., Prentiss' (6th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here from 7 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. April 6, 1862. It then fell back to its camp.

Marker can be reached from ...

Fort Meigs / Construction

Construction on Fort Meigs began in February 1813. Soldiers traveling to Fort Meigs passed through the Great Black Swamp, a nearly impenetrable morass 40 miles across and 120 miles wide south of the fort. The harsh winter weather and frontier ...

Samuel Woodfill

Most Decorated Soldier of W. W. I

In Honor of A Native Son

Samuel Woodfill

Major, United States Army

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Born near Bryantsburg, Indiana

June 6, 1887

Died Vevay, Indiana

August 10, 1951

Buried in Arlington Naational Cemetery

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"The Outstanding American Soldier

in the World War"

John ...

General Lafayette and his Compatriots

[north face:]

To General Lafayette

and his Compatriots

1777 - 1783

[south face:] By the

Congress

in commemoration

of the services

rendered by

General Lafayette

and his Compatriots

during the struggle

for the

Independence

of the

United States

of America

Superintendent of Indian Affairs

(Sir William Johnson)

Gaining considerable knowledge of Indian Affairs, his area of responsibility for administration reached from Hudson's Bay Canada to the Carolinas. From the Atlantic to as far west as any Indians were known.

Appointed to deal with Indians, ...

Lafayette Visit

On this site June 3, 1825, the great French & American patriot, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), a Major General and aide to General George Washington during the American Revolution, was entertained in the French Street home of Erie Pioneer ...