United States Colored Troops

Civil War Memorial Monument

African Americans have served in every war since the American Revolution. During the Civil War, more that 180,000 African Americans comprising 170 units served in the Union Army and 29,511 served in the Union Navy. Nearly 700 ...

Wall of Hope

A Rhode Island Community Response to September 11th

This mosaic was created by more than 10,000 Rhode Island Residents of all ages, races, religion, and cultures. The magnificent artwork you see here is a tribute to loved ones lost, to the ...

Lampl Produce Company Building

Built 1907-1908

Built as a Warehouse for $17,000

Historic Address: 116/118 N. Rock Island

Current Address: 111 N. Mosley

Marker is on Mosley, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Carlin Springs

In 1872 John F. Carlin developed here a popular resort which could be reached by train from Washington and Alexandria. His establishment included two springs, an ice cream parlor, a restaurant, a dance pavilion, and a swimming hole at the ...

The Pacolet River Flood of 1903

At dawn on the morning of June 6, 1903, floodwaters roared through the Pacolet River valley. As the high water thundered downstream from mill village to mill village, people in the path of the flash flood had no warning it ...

Winneccunnett Pond Area

Winneccunnett Pond is the only sizable, natural body of water in Norton, Massachusetts. Winneccunnett is a Native American word meaning "the place of the black geese." A Native American village was established on the north end of the pond long ...

Beckwourth Pass

Emigrant Trail

Lowest pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Discovered in 1851 by

James P. Beckwourth

Dedicated to the discoverer and to the pioneers who passed along this trail by the Las Plumas Parlor No. 254 N.D.G.W.

May 1937

No desert’s waste nor redskins bold could ...

A. S. Parks and A. E. Jones Building

Built 1913

Built As Warehouse For $14,000

First Tenant: Rumely Products Company

of Indiana

Builder: MacLean Construction Company, Chicago, IL

Renovated: 2006 as

Rumely Condominiums

Historic Address: 701 East Second

Current Address: 242 N. Mead

Marker is on Mead Street near 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north. ...

St. Norbert College and The Packers

Packers Heritage Trail

St. Norbert College became the training camp of the Packers in 1958 in an agreement that would become the longest such partnership in NFL history. Father Dennis M. Burke, then president of the college, suggested the arrangement ...

Minshall Laboratory, DePauw University

The early 1930's was a time for great chemical research productivity at DePauw. It was to this decade that William M. Blanchard, Dean of the University, hired Percy Julian as a research fellow. Blanchard had been Julian’s mentor during his ...