Drumlins

This is glaciated country. Here, as you approach the western edge of Wisconsin’s kettle moraine, you see many land features created by glacial ice some 15,000 years ago. Among the most interesting of these are long, oval hills known as ...

Jonathan Sturges Cottage

Jonathan Sturges Cottage

Built 1840

Has Been Designated A

National Historic Landmark

This Building Possesses National Significance

In Commemorating the History of The

United States of America

1994

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Mill Plain Road and Mill Plain ...

Andrew Roland House

Built By

Andrew Roland

And His Wife Elizabeth

Daughter of Governor Fitch

1760

Their Son Saw the British Land

And Gave the Alarm

Marker is at the intersection of Old Post Road and Oldfield Road, on the right when traveling west on Old Post Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sparta Free Library

Prior to the construction of this building in 1902, the Sparta Free Library had several homes in the community. Schick and Roth, a LaCrosse architectural firm, designed the library building.

Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie provided construction funds. The Carnegie Foundation ...

George Hull Home Lot

Site Of Original

Home Lot Of

George Hull

1590 – 1659

Farmer, Trader

Judge, Surveyor

And Legislator

Marker is at the intersection of Old Post Road and Oldfield Road, on the left when traveling west on Old Post Road.

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Yosemite Valley Railroad

[This marker is composed of two panels.]

Panel #1

Gateway to Yosemite

The arrival of the Yosemite Valley Railroad in El Portal, Spanish for the Gateway, represented a great accomplishment in transportation and the birth of this community. In 1907, the first El ...

Preservation and the Archaeological Record

Organic materials, including the human body, decompose when buried in the ground. Clothing made of animal skins or hides does not survive after many years of burial. Likewise, most pigments used to paint the body do not survive. Foodstuffs placed ...

Forrest's Raid

Dec. 20, 1862

At Humboldt, Starnes' detachment of Forrest's Brigade captured both railroads running into the town, destroyed track, trestles and rolling stock and burned stores and munitions. Meanwhile Forrest, with the commands of Biffle (19th Tenn. Cav)and Cox (2nd Tenn.Cav.Bn)passed ...

Forrest's Raid

Dec. 21, 1862

At Kenton, a detachment of Forrest's Brigade coming North from Rutherford, captured the Federal garrison 250 men including Col Thos.J.Kenney, 122nd Illinois Infantry. They also tore up the five miles of track between the two towns.

Marker is at ...

Ringold Community

Older than Spalding County, Ringold Community grew around the two-story Ringold Masonic Lodge 90 building erected here in 1852. The lodge was established Oct. 31, 1849 at what became Walker’s Mill (1 mi. S). First Worshipful Master was Wiley J. ...