Frances Payne Bolton

Frances Payne Bolton (1885-1977) was the first woman from Ohio to serve in the United States Congress. Elected in 1940 to complete the term of her late husband, Chester C. Bolton, Mrs. Bolton represented the 22nd District for 28 years. ...

Arthur Fort, 1750-1833

Arthur Fort, Sr., a representative of Wilkinson County, introduced the Bill in the Georgia Legislature to carve a new county out of Wilkinson County territory which became an Act on December 14, 1809, thus Twiggs County was created. After the ...

Fort Boykin Historic Park

The Warraskoyack Indians had a town south of

Fort Boykin in the vicinity of Tormentor Creek and

another on Jones Creek near the mouth of the

Pagan River. John Smith stayed with them on his 1608

mission to Powhatan’s residence on the York River ...

First Baptist Church of Corpus Christi

On August 17, 1878, a group of local residents met in the home of S.T. Foster at 702 Antelope Street to organize the First Baptist Church of Corpus Christi. Under the leadership of the Rev. J.W.D. Creath, a noted pioneer ...

Birthplace of Greyhound Lines

It was in Hibbing, during 1914, that the Greyhound Bus System, through its predecessor company, first began operation.

Marker can be reached from Greyhound Boulevard/3rd Avenue East 0.2 miles north of 13th Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

City of Weir

Tenessee-native Thomas Calvin Weir (1826-1901) came to Williamson County in 1856. He bought land in this area and became a prosperous farmer. Alabaman James Francis Towns (1850-1937) came in 1870 and settled nearby on the San Gabriel River. He and ...

Lake Pepin's Shell Game / In Search of Summer

Lake Pepin's Shell Game

Celebrated today as a resort area, Lake Pepin had an earlier fame as a clamming center. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, more than 500 clammers worked the lake from their flat-bottomed johnboats, using giant combs ...

Catharine Furnace

The stone stack in front of you is all that remains of the Catharine Furnace, built in 1837. Close a decade later, the furnace was reborn to meet the Confederacy’s wartime need for iron. Union cavalrymen under General George A. ...

The Home Fleet

In the year 1880, when the City of Sheboygan was a struggling village of 2,000 and the country was recovering from the Civil War, people of great vision were establishing businesses that would impact the region for generations. One of ...

A Crossroads of American History

The Frederick Square Corner

The Square Corner, at the intersection of Patrick and Market Streets, has long been the commercial and financial heart of Frederick. It is here that the National Road meets several important north-south roads that lead to Pennsylvania, ...