The Overland Trails

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

Historic Frontier Trails cut through the territory now known as Merriam. Hundreds of thousands of people emigrated [sic – immigrated] to the western frontiers along the Oregon and California Trails. The Santa Fe, Oregon and California ...

39th New York Infantry

On this spot July 2d 1863,

the 39th N.Y. Infantry

re-captured the guns

and equipment of

Battery I,

5th U.S. Artillery.

Marker is on United States Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Vietnam War protesters and police clashed here

The Madison Heritage Series

During the 1960s and early 1970s, many American college campuses smoldered over political issues, especially the draft and the Vietnam War. The University of Wisconsin, however, burst into a full blaze.

Groups demonstrated regularly on campus and State ...

Second Brigade

Horse Artillery - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps Horse Artillery

Second Brigade

Capt. John C. Tidball

1st U.S. Batteries E and G

Capt. Alanson M. Randol

July 2d and 3d with cavalry on right under Brig. Gen. D. McM. Gregg

1st U.S. Battery K

Capt. William ...

Shawnee Friends Mission

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

Religious missionaries of nearly all denominations were present throughout Indian settlements as early as the 1680’s. Missionaries were intent on converting the Native Americans to Christianity. Quakers (The Society of Friends) had worked among the Shawnee ...

Denver City

Lower Downtown Historic District

The area known today as Lower Downtown, is the Location of the original town of Denver. Gold seekers from Lawrence, Kansas staked the first claim in September of 1858, under the name St. Charles Town Association, but ...

Confederate Trenches

The main objective of the Confederate Army in fortifying Columbus was to block Union movements on the Mississippi River. In so doing they also had to protect their position from inland attack. The trenches through which this trail leads are ...

Ironville

Birthplace of the Electrical Age

Allen Penfield, Timothy Taft, and Allen Harwood pioneered the first industrial use of electricity in their iron works below the pond south of the marker. Thomas Davenport, the blacksmith of Brandon, Vermont, in 1833 bought the ...

In Search Of ....

Apparently, after Cannon # 209 was lost, no effort was made to immediately recover the cannon. World War II created severe shortages of manpower, equipment, and money. Several searches after the war were unsuccessful.

In 1984, a local historian and park ...

Millard E. Tydings

1890 - 1961

This Building is Named

in Memory of

Millard E. Tydings

1890 - 1961

Distinguished Public Servant and Friend of Education

Alumnus of the University

Decorated Officer, World War I

Speaker of the House of Delegates

State Senator

Member of the House of Representatives

and

the ...