The Hanging Rock Iron Region / The Blast Furnaces of Lawrence Co

The Hanging Rock Iron Region

To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these ...

Ironton - Lawrence County Memorial Day Parade

Since 1868, Ironton's annual Memorial Day parade has recognized those in Lawrence County who died while defending our country's freedom. This was the same year in which the Grand Army of the Republic established May 30 as Decoration Day. Originally ...

The Delaware and Hudson Canal

The Rondout Creek at this site provided the tidewater terminal for the D and H Canal, a constructed water-way of 108 miles, completed in 1828. Starting at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, hundreds of flat canal boats carried millions of tons of ...

Henry Clay's Law Office

Erected 1803-04, this is the only office standing used by Clay; he occupied it from 1804 until ca. 1810. During these significant years in his career, Clay was elected to successive terms in legislature and to unexpired terms in the ...

Mark Twain's Father's Law Office

Young Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) saw a dead man on the floor in here one night. Sam went out at a window, taking the sash along with him. "I didn't need the sash," he recalled, "but it was handier to ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

Biltmore Estate Landscape Architect

As work progressed on Biltmore Estate, his last and largest private project, Frederick Law Olmsted observed, "It is a great work of peace we are engaged in and one of these days we shall all be proud ...

Equal Justice Under the Law

Make No Little Plans

The roots of America's top law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, reach back to 1789. That year the first Congress created the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute lawsuits in the Supreme Court and ...

Highland Lawn Cemetery

1884

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places November 29, 1990, by the United States Department of the Interior in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Naatural Resources Division of historic Preservation.

Marker is on East Wabash Avenue east of Blakely ...

Church of St. Lawrence

Rafael Guastavino (1842-1908), an architect and builder of Spanish origin, came to Asheville to work on the Biltmore House in the mid-1890s. After completing his work at Biltmore, Guastavino settled in nearby Black Mountain. He soon declared the city needed ...

Bass Reeves - Lawman on the Western Frontier

Bass Reeves, a slave born in Arkansas and reared in Texas, rose to become one of the best known and effective deputy U.S. marshals to ride out of Fort Smith for Judge Isaac C. Parker. Recognized as one of the ...