Michel's Drug Store

Ernst Gustav Michel (1865-1930), a native of Germany, and his wife, Lillie Agnes, opened a drugstore at this site in 1891. After fire destroyed the first store in 1905, Michel built a 3-story edifice here. The first floor housed the ...

The Grave of Duncan Campbell & Jane McCrea

The Grave of

Duncan Campbell

& Jane McCrea

are just within and

to the left

of this gateway.

Marker is on Broadway (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling south.

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Monroe County Since 1817

Monroe County was established in July, 1817, as one of the first steps in the organization of Michigan Territory after the War of 1812.

Then the old settlement of Frenchtown which centered upon this square took the name of Monroe and ...

Poplar Lawn

Poplar Lawn is now known as Central Park. Here the Petersburg Volunteers camped in October 1812, before leaving for the Canadian border. Here Lafayette was greeted with music and speeches in 1824. The place was bought by the city in ...

Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak and impossible to remain silent.

Elias Clayton • Elmer Jackson • Isaac McGhie

On June 15, 1920, following the alleged rape of a young woman, Duluth police locked up a number ...

Solomon Blatt, Sr.

Erected to honor

Solomon Blatt Sr.

who was born in Blackville February 27, 1825

The son of Nathan and Mollie Blatt

A courageous gentleman and statesman who loves Blackville

and all its citizens.

No other Blackville citizen has been honored as has Mr. Blatt

and ...

The Fight for the Cedars

December 31, 1862

1. The Union line was smashed by the Confederate onrush. Reserve troops rushed here to stem the tide.

2. Those Union soldiers, confused by the cedar thickets, fog and smoke, also fled.

3. Union infantry and artillery along the Nashville ...

Sixteen Soldiers

This monument is erected to commemorate the sacrifice of the lives of Sixteen Soldiers who were massacred July, 1758, by a band of hostile Indians in the park which was then only a path in the wilderness.

The sixteen soldiers, with ...

Air Mail

The world's first airplane mail to be operated as a continuously scheduled public service started from this field May 15, 1918.

The route connected Washington, Philadelphia and New York. Curtiss JN 4-H airplanes with a capacity of 150 pounds of ...

Fort Johnson, 1749

Third Mohawk Valley House

built by Sir William

Johnson. Important military

post and Indian Council

place of 1754-60

Marker is at the intersection of Mohawk Turnpike (New York Route 5) and Mergner Drive, on the right when traveling west on Mohawk Turnpike.

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