First Baptist Church / Mt. Olive CME Church

(Front Side):

First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and built in 1906. It is constructed of yellow bricks along a Georgian-architectural style. It housed a congregation of 2,200 members which organized the first Sunday ...

Timmy's Branch

Union Cavalry Picket Line

Clearly visible in front of you is the roadbed of the original Mill Springs Road. Feel free to walk the old road to the creek, where you can see the original crossing. Near the creek, between the ...

Black Jack Ketchum

Thomas "Black Jack" Ketchum, leader of a notorious band of train robbers, was wounded in August 1899 while trying to rob a train near Folsom. He surrendered the next day. He was tried and convicted under a law making train ...

Burial Site of Josette Beaubien

Josette Beaubien, a survivor of the Fort Dearborn Massacre, was buried here in 1845. She was married to Jean Baptiste Beaubien, one of Chicago's first settlers. Her brother was Claude LaFramboise, a chief of the Potawatomi Indians. Chief Alexander Robinson ...

Alexander Robinson

(Chee Chee Pin Quay)

Chief of the Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians

Who died April 22, 1872

Catherine (Chevalier) his wife

who died August 7, 1860

and other members of their family

are buried on this spot -

Part of the Reservation granted him

By the Treaty of ...

Founding of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity

On April 28, 1867, the National Women's Fraternity Movement began here in the home of Jacob Holt. In a second floor bedroom, shared by Ada Bruen and Libbie Brook, twelve Monmouth College co-eds founded I.C. Sorosis, known today by its ...

Wyatt Earp Birthplace

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Wyatt Earp

Birthplace

March 19, 1848

Marker is on South 3rd Street south of East 3rd Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Red Brick Store

The original Red Brick Store opened for business on January 5, 1842, with Joseph Smith as owner and proprietor. The main floor was a general store. At the back on this floor, Bishop Newell K. Whitney had an office where ...

Bidamon Stable

Lewis Bidamon, second husband of Emma Smith, built this structure during the 1860s from the foundation stone of the Nauvoo House. Bidamon owned a carriage “manufactory.” He, and his brothers John and Christian had conducted a number of business transactions ...

Filippone Building

Italian stonemasons Giovanni B. Filippone (1845-1917) and Giovanni Cassinelli purchased property here in 1883-85 and in 1885 built the six-sided portion of this limestone block building. Filippone became sole owner in 1887 and operated a general store on the first ...