Battle of Black Jack

This "battle" was part of the struggle to make Kansas a free state. In May, 1856, Proslavery men destroyed buildings and newspaper presses in Lawrence, Free-State headquarters. John Brown's company then killed five Proslavery men on Pottawatomie Creek not far ...

Howard’s Inn – Evergreen Cemetery

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

The Cemetery of the Evergreens is situated at a site critical to the Battle of Brooklyn. Near the Cemetery, by the intersection of today’s Broadway and Jamaica Avenue, stood Howard’s Tavern, the most easterly pass of ...

Gays Mills Sesquicentennial

1848 – 1998

In the year 1847 James B. Gay, a civil engineer and native of Indiana, journeyed to the unsettled Kickapoo Valley. Here he was impressed by acres of untouched forest which covered the hills and valleys. Finding a ...

The Battle of Black Jack

(Left marker):The Battle of Black Jack

"Civil War in Kansas!"

"Let not the knives of pro-slavery men be sheathed while there is one abolitionist in the Territory."

Squatter, Sovereign, proslavery newspaper in Atchison, Kansas Territory, June 10, 1856

On this ...

Aiken First Baptist Church

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This church, founded in 1805, predates the city of Aiken and was first called Levels Baptist Church. Its first location was a mile south of present-day Aiken. In 1836 the congregation joined with the members of the Wise ...

Tenney Park

This park was named for its principle benefactor, Daniel Kent Tenney (1834 - 1915), an attorney, who purchased a portion of this marshland in 1899 and donated it to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association to be developed and ...

New Utrecht Cemetery

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

This is the site of the original New Utrecht Reformed Church, built in 1700 on the main street of New Utrecht village.

On August 22, 1776, General Howe’s troops occupied the old Church before moving to ...

Clara H. Barton

Founder of the American Red Cross

Here at Fairfax Station in early Sept. 1862, after the Second Battle of Manassas and the action near Chantilly, Clara Barton ministered to the suffering. By her humane and tireless efforts this Angel of ...

Wiley Building

100-102 North Main

1882 Opera House preceded Vernon Wiley's $350,000, 1912 Classical Revival style skyscraper, tallest building west of the Mississippi, home of Hutchinson Board of Trade and Wiley's Department Store.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and ...

Hugh Porter & Jane Baily McClimon

First McClimon Family in South Carolina

Born to this union, six children, John Pressely gave the land for Liberty Hill Church. The first church was logs. Sallie McClimon married Jeremiah Glenn. They gave most of the money to build the ...