Winning School of Parke County Indiana

American Legion Oratorical Contest 1954

1809 (Relief of Lincoln) 1865

The Gettysburg Address

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created ...

Parker County, C.S.A.

Part of a colonial grant to S.M. Williams and Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas, but with no permanent settlers before 1850, this county was created in 1855 and named for Isaac Parker, its legislative sponsor. By 1860 it had ...

Lexington Reservoir County Park

In 1952, Santa Cruz Mountain rainwater flowing from the surrounding creeks filled the new reservoir and slowly covered what was left of the once prosperous towns of Lexington, Alma and an old portion of Highway 17. Looking out today across ...

Anderson Lake County Park

Long before nearby Coyote Creek was dammed to form the reservoir in 1950, people were drawn to its cool shade and clear flowing water. In 2006 an ancient burial site

was unearthed during construction of homes across the street from this ...

Knox County Veterans Memorial Park

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Welcome to the Knox County Veterans’ Memorial Park. The monuments that stand before you are dedicated to the memory of all the military veterans from Knox County.

Most prominent is the “Soldiers and Sailors Civil War monument. ...

Calero County Park – Bailey Fellows House

The nearby Bailey Fellows house is a historic “Italianate” structure located at the south end of Calero Reservoir and appears on the County of Santa Clara Heritage Resource Inventory. The house is named for Boargenes R. Bailey and Judge Edward ...

Parke County Museum

This Museum Building built in 1839 first used as a seminary; an armory during the Civil War, a school for negro children from 1873-1924, later a gas station, a restaurant, and gift shop.

Purchased in 1975 by Parke Co. Historical Society.

Marker ...

Park’s / Greenwood County

Park's: America's Most Trusted Gardening Resource

Building a Family Tradition Since 1868

It all started in 1867 when 15 year-old George Watt Park, a very enterprising lad, passed around to friends and neighbors a list of seeds he had grown and collected ...

Emanuel County Patriot Park

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Gratefully Dedicated to

The Patriotic Memory of American

Revolutionary Soldiers

Buried in Emanuel County

Wilson Drew Jacob Durden

David Edenfield Ephriam Herrington James Moore

Joseph Sumner Reuben Thompson

Presented by

The Governor David Emanuel Chapter,

Georgia State Society, National Society,

Daughters of ...

County Park

In 1824 Garret Wall presented the land which ... "is always to be kept and continued open as a public square, walk, promenade for the free common and uninterrupted use of the County of Warren forever."

Marker is on 2nd Street ...