Natural Highways

The Chesapeake Bay and its many tributaries have served as natural highways since the beginning of civilization. With the gradual development of villages and settlements along the shorelines, the waterways became the primary means of transportation and commerce for this ...

Piqua Veterans Memorial

To the Piqua area men and women who have honorably served in the conflicts of our country

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway Riverside Drive (Ohio Route 66) and Washington Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broadway ...

Siloam Baptist Church

This church was organized in 1799 by Rev. John Waller, Rev. David Lilly, William Chiles, and Meshec Overby, with 32 charter members. Waller, its first minister, served until his death in 1802. Other notable pastors included Revs. John Broadus, Basil ...

The Mills Brothers

America's Greatest Singing Group

The Citizens of Piqua dedicate this memorial.

We are proud of your Piqua heritage and birth. As musical ambassadors, you have achieved world wide fame and made the world a better place.

Dedicated June 3, 1990

R.F.W. Allston Causeway

This causeway was built between January 1845 and November 1846 by Robert Francis Withers Allston, who owned a summer residence on Pawleys Island. Known as Governor Allston's bank, it connected the island to the mainland. Allston was a large property ...

Skirmish At Black Mingo Creek

On Sept. 14, 1780, Gen. Francis Marion's Patriots routed a Tory force commanded by Capt. J. Coming Ball. The Tories, attacked on one flank by Capt. Thomas Waties and on the other by Col. Peter Horry, fled into Black Mingo ...

Robert Frost

1874 - 1963

A distinguished American poet by recognition and a Vermonter by preference, Robert Frost was Poet Laureate of Vermont and for many years "First Citizen" of the Town of Ripton. He was long associated with the Middlebury College School ...

Laughlin, an Oasis on the Colorado

During the building of Davis Dam, the Nevada side of the river here became known as Tristate. In 1964, Don Laughlin was looking for an investment opportunity. He had sold his 101 Club in North Las Vegas, and flew over ...

Poinsett's Spring

This park was given to the county of Greenville in 1788 by

Lemuel J. Alston

The Poinsett-Spring-Stones given in 1956 by the heirs of

C.C. Hindman

to the Poinsett Hotel,

J. Mason Alexander, Mng. Dir.

Marker is at the intersection of East Court Street and South ...

Earthquakes Along the Mississippi

Why are there quakes along the Mississippi River?

Geologists have many theories but do not know why quakes occur around New Madrid, Missouri. They do agree that the geology of the Mississippi valley is unique because of Reelfoot rift and the ...