Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument

"Victory, the Jewel of the Soul"

Side A: Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument

The Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument was planned and promoted by Butler County Civil War veterans and financed by a county levy in 1899. The monument, built of Indiana ...

Boston Molasses Flood

On January 15, 1919, a molasses tank at 529 Commercial Street exploded under pressure, killing 21 people. A 40-foot wave of molasses buckled the elevated railroad tracks, crushed buildings and inundated the neighborhood. Structural defects in the tank combined with ...

Dale Point

Just north is the birthplace of Commodore Richard Dale (6 Nov 1756 - 26 Feb 1826). He served on the United States brigantine Lexington. The British captured and wounded him several times during the Revolutionary War. Captain John Paul Jones ...

Harriet M. Berry

1877-1940

Champion of good roads. Her intensive lobbying led to 1921 law creating modern state highway system. Born 8 mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of North Carolina Route 86 and Harriet Morehead Berry Freeway (Interstate 40) on State Route 86. ...

The Ohio State Reformatory

Designed by architect Levi T. Scofield, the Ohio State Reformatory opened its doors in 1896 as a facility to rehabilitate young male offenders through hard work and education. A self-sufficient institution with its own power plant and working farm, the ...

Fontana Farms Company

Camp No. 1, Foreman's Ranch House

Joe McKamie alerted Fontana Historical Society about Camp. Ora Scott provided interest free loan of $10,000 and City of Fontana gave down payment of $3,000 to save house. Society acquired ownership title to house on ...

Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility

In 1913, the State of New Jersey acquired 747 acres to establish a farm colony to treat the mentally ill. During World War I, inmates from the reformatory at Rahway farmed the property to provide emergency food supplies for the ...

Mansfield Block House

(Within This Park)

Built during War of 1812 in Central Park - a refuge in time of Indian alarms. Rebuilt for Mansfield Centennial in 1908. Now used as a Boy Scout meeting place.

Marker is at the intersection of Park Avenue West ...

Ironclads Attack

On April 7, 1863, the Union Navy sent its new force of ironclad warships - eight monitors and the frigate New Ironsides - to attack Fort Sumter. The ironclads attacked from the water directly in front of you.

As the ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Christian / Sangamon Counties

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District

1847 - 1859

Marker is on Consolidated Road (County Road E 2300N) west of County Route 29, on the right when traveling west.

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