The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry

West of the Mississippi River, in

this well, drilled by H. G. Johnston,

E. H. Akin, and Charles Rittersbacher

under contract for a water well

for the city of Corsicans in

1894, the first oil in commercial

quantities in ...

Old Mill Creek

In 1780 the British garrison at Fort Michilimackinac moved to Mackinac Island as a safer location during the American Revolution. Robert Campbell built a sawmill on this site to furnish lumber for the new fort and settlement. His sawmill and ...

City of Ironton

Founded 1849

In 1849, the city of Ironton was founded by local ironmasters, railroaders, and financiers associated with the Ohio Iron and Coal Company. They saw the city as a manufacturing and shipping point for their products. As a young industrial ...

Provisions for the City

Hub, Home, Heart

This high ground near the B&O Railroad tracks has been Union Terminal Market since 1931. That year Center Market on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, came down to make way for the National Archives. Vendors seeking new locations clustered ...

The Lincoln Tavern

Hattie Howell Howard, born about ten miles from here in 1886, grew up hearing local lore about Abraham Lincoln. After her brother James opened the Nancy Lincoln Inn next to Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, Hattie looked for her ...

Korczak Ziolkowski

1908-1982

Born in Boston, Korczak Ziolkowski was a completely self taught American original of Polish descent. Early in his career, he moved to West Hartford, to establish his studio and begin life as a professional artist. He began to sell commissioned ...

Abbott Schools

The public school system in Abbott began in 1885 when a one-story frame schoolhouse was constructed on the east side of town. It housed 140 pupils and three teachers. A two-story brick structure, built at this site in 1911, served ...

Algonquin Provincial Park

Le Parc Provincial Algonquin

Established in 1893, Algonquin was the first provincial park in Canada and the forerunner of Ontario’s extensive park system. Many methods now used across Canada to administer multi-purpose parks and explain nature to the public were developed ...

Richard J. Arnold

Richard James Arnold (1796-1873) acquired nearby White Hall Plantation through his marriage in 1823 to Louisa Gindrat. A Rhode Island native, Arnold invested heavily in White Hall for the cultivation of cotton and in his Cherry Hill and Mulberry tracts ...

Two Miles South of this town Abraham Lincoln was born ...

Two miles south of this town Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809.

Erected with appropriations made by the Legislature of Kentucky and the Congress of the United States of America

Anno Domini MCMIX (1909)

Marker is at the intersection of Lincoln ...