Steamer Sevona

Historic Shipwreck

Type: Steel, bulk and package freighter

Built: 1890, Frank W. Wheeler, Bay City, Mich.

Sank: September 2, 1905

Length: 372’ Beam: 41’

Cargo: Iron ore

Propulsion: Propeller

Depth of Wreckage: 25’

Lives Lost: 7

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

About four miles north of here ...

Poulain DuBignon and DuBignon Burying Ground

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This burying ground contains the bodies of several members of the du Bignon family, descendants of Le Sieur Christophe Poulain de la Houssaye du Bignon, native of Saint-Malo in Brittany. One of four Frenchmen, former residents of Sapelo Island, who ...

Arizona's Honeymoon Trail

For nearly forty years, couples from Arizona settlements left their homes each fall after harvest and traveled 400 miles to St. George, Utah. Winding slowly through desert and steep canyons, crossing barren plateaus, and passing rivers and pools of undrinkable ...

Liberty County Confederate Monument

1861-1865

War Between The States

"Lord God of hosts

defend us yet

Lest we forget.

lest we forget."

Marker is on Court Street near South Commerce Street, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Bear Pit

Merriam Historic Plaza

The Bear Pit Bronze sculpture by artist Kwan Wu. Dedicated and installed 2006.

This sculpture by artist Kwan Wu represents the City of Merriam's first public sculpture installation. The mother bear and cubs celebrate one of the most popular ...

Curles Neck and Bremo

Curles Neck may take its name from the curls of the river or a family of that name. Richard Cocke, the Immigrant, patented land along the James River on the eastern side of the neck in 1636. There he built ...

Richfield Pioneer Homestead

General Riley Lucas Bartholomew

Born the son of 1812 War Veteran, Benjamin Bartholomew, and a grandson of Revolutionary War heroes, Benjamin Bartholomew and Abigail Patchen Bartholomew, Riley was the oldest of 12 siblings living on a frontier farm in Harpersfield, Ashtabula ...

Petersburg Defenses

Batteries 35-38

You are facing Battery 37 in the 10-mile-long Confederate defensive line constructed between 1862 and 1864 east and south of Petersburg. Named the Dimmock Line for supervising engineer Capt. Charles H. Dimmock, it consisted of trenches linking 55 earthen ...

The Underground Railroad in Canada

From the early 19th century until the American Civil War, settlements along the Detroit and Niagara rivers were important terminals of the Underground Railroad. White and black abolitionists formed a heroic network dedicated to helping free and enslaved African Americans ...

Mesa Pioneer Monument

This monument is dedicated to the founding men, women and children of Mesa whose efforts, with others of all races, religions and cultures, changed a harsh desert land into this vibrant city of today.

When the first settlers came in 1877-78, ...