Washtenaw County War Memorial

In memory of the soldiers and sailors of Washtenaw County who served in the Civil War, 1861-1865, also those who served in the war with Spain, 1898. Erected A. D. 1914.

Marker is on Geddes Avenue near Observetory Street.

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Benjamin B. Crosby Home

An early 1900's adobe home built by the son of Eagar's first Mormon Bishop. Crosby, a major sheep & cattle rancher, was a railroad contractor who in 1917 laid the track for the Santa Fe Railroad north of here.

Marker is ...

Washington’s Route from Princeton

By this route

Washington

with his army

retired after his victory at Princeton

January, 1777.

Erected by

Camp Middlebrook Chapter

D.A.R.

Marker is on Canal Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Fort St. Charles

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Verendrye, established Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods in 1732. A daring soldier, fir trader, and explorer, La Verendrye had the ambitious dream of finding the fabled "Western Sea" and sought ...

The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial

The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is the state's foremost Civil War monument. This outstanding example of civic sculpture stands in a prominent downtown location on the southeast tip of Campus Martius where five principle thoroughfares intersect--Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street, ...

Arizona

(Four Corners)

The line separating the territories of New Mexico and Arizona was established as 32 degrees of longitude west of the Washington Meridian by Congressional Act of February 24, 1863, signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

The Washington Meridian bisected the Old ...

Historic Landscape Restoration

In 1997 the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution began to develop a proposal at Manassas National Battlefield Park to mitigate the loss of wetlands resulting from the construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a National Air and ...

Paul Robeson

In Recognition Of

World Renown Athlete, Actor, Singer, Scholar

Marker is at the intersection of Wiggins St. (aka Robeson Place) and Witherspoon St., on the right when traveling west on Wiggins St. (aka Robeson Place).

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Grand Army of the Republic

There are now forty-eight reasons why we will always remember the Grand Army of the Republic.

Erected by Department of Michigan, Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Dedicated November, 1948.

Marker is on Muse Road ...

Sperryville

Laid out by Francis Thornton, Jr., in 1817, Sperryville survives as an upper Piedmont crossroads village. In the early 19th century John Kiger built Conestoga wagons here. By the 1850s two turnpikes (Thornton’s Gap and Sperryville & Rappahannock) intersected here. ...