Roswell Parmelee

Genesee County's only known French & Indian War veteran

Pioneer of Stone Church

Died 1811 age 72 buried

in Fort Hill Cemetery Le Roy

Marker is on Parmelee Road 0.1 miles south of Lake Street Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ingham University Campus

Site of First Women's University

Founded by Marietta and Emily Ingham in 1837, as the Le Roy Female Seminary; incorporated in 1852 as the Ingham Collegiate Institute; chartered in April 28, 1857 as Ingham University with a literary college, college ...

Octave Chanute's Progress in Flying Machines

Chanute - Wright Memorial

Mr. Chanute's 1891 book "Progress in Flying Machines" made him the world's first aviation historian, but, more importantly, for the first time experimenters could read of work done before them and not waste time by repetition.

His 1896 ...

Octave Chanute and "The Problem of The Ages"

Chanute - Wright Memorial

Mr. Chanute moved to Chicago in 1889 and began working on solving "the problem of the ages" - heavier-than-air flight.

Chanute corresponded with men all over the world interested in flight. He gathered all the information he could ...

Kemper Street Station

History

The new Kemper Street Station, which opened on October 31, 1912, was one of many improvements made in Lynchburg by Southern Railway to double track its mainline between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. The Rivermont Tunnel, the James River Bridge, and ...

Sputnik IV

Sputnik IV

Satellite fragment was

recovered at this site

Sept 6, 1962

Marker is at the intersection of North 8th Street (U.S. 10) and Park Street, on the left when traveling north on North 8th Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

County Hospital Cemetery

This publicly-owned cemetery contains the burials of 162 patients from the Manitowoc County Asylum for the Insane and the Manitowoc County Hospital who died between the years 1917 and 1974. The names of all, but two, are known.

The Manitowoc County ...

Potter's Field Cemetery

The land was originally part of 80 acres owned by Jacob W. Conroe who built a sawmill at Manitowoc Rapids in 1856. In 1914 the farmland was purchased by Manitowoc County and the ground set aside as a free burial ...

Path of Honor

Charles A “Bud” Norris

Path of Honor

Honor * Respect * Remember

This path is dedicated to all veterans, past and present. As you walk this path, feel their presence and pay homage. Remember their sacrifice, devotion, and loyalty to this “Republic”. They ...

Stephen Burrows

Fashion Walk of Fame

Stephen Burrows, best known for fluid, body-conscious clothes in bold colors, “stretches a rainbow over the body,” said one admirer. In 1970, he opened a boutique called Stephen Burrows’ World at Henri Bendel, where he sold ...