Col. Ruby G. Bradley

U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 30 Years

In honor of

Col. Ruby G. Bradley

U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 30 years.

W.W. II, 1941–1945. Prisoner of war 37 months in the Asiatic Pacific Campaign in the Philippine Islands.

Korean War, 1950–1953.Chief Nurse of the emergency hospitals in ...

Brig. Gen. Turner Ashby, C.S.A.

Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson’s cavalry commander during the brilliant 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, was born on 23 Oct. 1828 just north at Rose Bank. From 1853 to 1858, Ashby operated a mercantile business in a large frame building just to ...

The Albert G. Boone Store

(Main Marker)

Originally used as an outfitting store for wagon trains, this building was completed in 1850 by Indian traders George and William Ewing and was sold in 1854 to Albert Gallatin Boone for $7,000. Boone operated the store ...

Joseph G. Cannon

Member of Congress for 46 years from Illinois, Speaker of the House, 1903-11. His birthplace stood 1 1/2 miles southwest.

Marker is at the intersection of Battleground Avenue (U.S. 220) and New Garden Road on Battleground Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brig. Gen. John Minor

Hazel Hill, the home of John Minor (13 May 1761 – 8 June 1816), a close friend of President James Monroe, once occupied this site. Minor served as a soldier in the American Revolution, as a colonel if the Spotsylvania ...

Frank G. Brown House

1905

This handsome house was built by Frank G. Brown (1852-1920), scion of a prominent real estate and banking family. Brown, who was first vice-president of the First National Bank, was a founder of the French Battery Company (now Rayovac). The ...

C.G. Conn Company

Side One:

Charles Gerard Conn began the musical instrument industry in Elkhart; city has been called the Band Industry Capital of the World. By 1874 producing rubber mouthpiece; was granted patent 1875; began producing musical instruments 1875. Factory here until 1910. ...

O.C. Hansen Glove and Mitten Mfg. Co.

Historic Third Ward

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

O.C. Hansen Glove and Mitten Mfg. Co.

Designed by

Ferry and Clas

Tour Site 8

1911

Marker is at the intersection of North Milwaukee Street ...

Tomáš G. Masaryk Memorial

Tomáš G. Masaryk

“He had the mind of a scholar, the figure of a sportsman, the bearing of an aristocrat, the position of a king. But he had the heart of a democrat. ...”

Dorothy Thompson, NBC broadcast, September 24, 1957.

This memorial ...

Brig. General Benjamin Harrison

1833–1901. Entered the Union Army as 2nd Lt. of the 70th Indiana Regiment. He insisted on turning raw recruits into disciplined soldiers. He later was United States Senator from Indiana and the twenty-third President of the United States.

Marker is ...