The Old Lake County Courthouse, 1878

The Old Courthouse has been, since its erection in 1878, a landmark in Lake County, Indiana. Construction of the central portion, including the clock tower, began with 500,000 hand-kilned bricks from the Henry Wise Brickyard in Crown Point, combining several ...

Cleburne's Div. in the Federal Rear

July 22, 1864. Cleburne’s 3 brigades, (CS) after over-running the Federal left (at Glenwood), moved on the rear of its line facing W. on Flat Shoals Rd., at the same time Maney’s div. (CS) attached its front. Beset on both ...

Hangman's Tree

Here stood

in early days the

Hangman’s Tree

This marker placed by

Ursula Parlor No.1

N.D.G.W

July 24, 1937

Marker is on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Great Sauk (Sac) Trail

(east-west through this point)

Part of a transcontinental trail

used by prehistoric peoples of

North America, it passed through

modern Detroit, Rock Island and

Davenport in the Midwest.

The trail was important

into the 19th century.

Marker is at the intersection of Van Buren Street and 73rd Avenue ...

John C. Calhoun Memorial Highway

Named in honor of John Caldwell Calhoun, (1782-1850), the Old South's most admired statesman and profound philosopher and America's most influential spokesman for state's rights.

From 1808 to 1810 he served his state as a member of the S.C. House of ...

Henry Bourne Joy and the Lincoln Highway

This monument commemorates the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental automobile road, and Henry Bourne Joy, the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association (1913). Joy, also president of the Packard Motor Car Company, is sometimes called the father of the ...

Abraham Lincoln

"We must think anew and act anew"

1809 - 1865

This monument commemorates the

sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth

by the State of Wyoming in 1959

Charles W. Jeffrey, M.D., Rawlins - Wyo. Donor

Robert I. Russin, Sculptor

Marker is at ...

Harbison College President's Home

The National Register

of Historic Places:

Harbison College

President's Home

Marker can be reached from Greenville Street (State Highway 20) north of College Street, on the right when traveling north.

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The Purple Heart Trail

The Purple Heart Medal was originated by General George Washington on August 7, 1782 for distinguished valor and is now awarded only to members of the armed forces of the United States, who have been wounded in combat against an ...

Battle at Stones River

December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's ...