Tin Can Tourist Campground

Almost this entire block was a campground for tin can tourists in the year 1918(?) - 1923. Travelers from all over the country camped here in tents, homemade trailers and even wooden shelters built on the back of Model T ...

Grand Rapids of the Wisconsin River

Indians called this section of the river “Ahdawagam”—the two sided rapids, while lumbermen knew it as “Grand Rapids”—the most treacherous stretch of the river, accentuated by perilous Sherman Rock. Bloomer, Sampson and Strong harnessed the waterpower in 1838 for sawing ...

Historic Wilhite House

Antebellum

Home Of

Dr. P.A. Wilhite

Discoverer Of Ether

Marker is on South McDuffie Street south of East River Street (U.S. 76/178), on the right when traveling south.

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Site of First St John's Church

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Site of First St John's Church (1760) erected by Sir William Johnson; first Church of England North of the Mohawk River

Marker is at the intersection of West State Street and W. Green Street on West State Street.

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"Gold Diggers' Road"

This section of highway was once a part of the “Gold Diggers’ Road,” one of the earliest ways used in reaching this area during the Gold Rush days.

Beginning on the Chestatee River to the east, where it connected with a ...

Lincoln's Cavalry Guard

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In 1863, Ohio Governor David Tod believed that Lincoln needed a cavalry body-guard. Governor Tod requested one volunteer from each county in Ohio to serve on special duty. Guernsey County, in east-central Ohio supplied Ephraim Adamson, a ...

Barton Heights Cemeteries

The Burying Ground Society of the Free People of Color of Richmond established its cemetery (later renamed Cedarwood) here in 1815. African Americans eventually founded five more cemeteries here: Union Burial Ground (later called Union Mechanics), Sons and Daughters of ...

262 West King Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

Leo C. Chase, Sr., who had previously managed the Huff Funeral Home in Lincolnville, opened one of the oldest businesses in St. Augustine, this funeral home in 1955. His son, Arnett Chase, took over after his father's death ...

Border Heroine

Frontier narratives record many hostilities between settlers and Native Americans. One account states Mrs. Bozarth, in a hand-to-hand fight, armed with axe only, killed three men during a 1779 attack on her cabin at the Dunkard Creek settlement.

Marker is at ...

Civil War Cannons

24 pdr. Flank Howitzer - Model 1844 - Cast 1864

Maker; Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh, PA.

Used on Casement Flank of fortifications to protect against infantry assults [sic].

Range; 1322 yds. at 5 degree Elevation.

Bore Dia; 5.82”

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