Washburn Lumbering Days / The Hines Lumber Company

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Washburn Lumbering Days

Washburn begins on the shoreline of Chequamegon Bay. The city rises gradually 75 ft. above level of the water. In 1884, the town was created, born of the necessity of the railway (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and ...

Lady Carrington and The Blackstone Canal

If this were the year 1828 you could climb aboard the barge Lady Carrington and travel by water all the way to Worcester.

It was October 8, 1828 and the Blackstone Canal had opened for passenger and cargo service between Providence ...

Fort Gibson: Uncovering the Past

If you were standing here in 1812, you would be looking at the exterior wall of Fort Gibson, which was five and a half feet thick and sixteen feet high. What you see now are the remains of that wall’s ...

Site of the B-24 Crash During W.W. II

On the night of March 26, 1944, three B-24 aircraft were flying loose formation from Chatham field in Savannah, Georgia on a training flight. Somewhere over the Atlantic ocean, two of the planes went down without even giving a distress ...

The Springhouse

Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

In the old days, springhouses did the job of

refrigerators. This springhouse served the

occupants of the farm from the 18th through

the early 20th centuries.

It was built directly over the spring and

shaded by trees. Cool spring water flowing

into the structure ...

The Bull Ring At City Point

A Dreaded Provost Prison

“It was a pen of filth and vermin.” – William Howell Reed, a Sanitary Commission agent

The Bull Ring was the Union provost Marshal’s prison at City Point used for the confinement of Union soldiers convicted or charged ...

In Their Springfield Prime

1854 marked Lincoln's public return to politics following a five-year hiatus. That year Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed the "Kansas-Nebraska Act" through the U.S. Congress, overturning the 1820 Missouri Compromise line. Fearing the spread of slavery to western ...

The Whispering Oak

A Witness

Nov. 6. 1792

The International Society of Arborculture and the National Arborist Association jointly recognize this significant tree in this bicentennial year as having lived here during the American Revolutionary Period.

1776 - 1976

Dedicated by

Eaton Current Events Club

April 13, 1977

Marker can ...

Pickett Springs / “The Best Public Resort”

Pickett Springs

Railroad building and amusement park development flourished in the post-bellum South. In 1880s, Western Railroad of Alabama opened Pickett Springs on site of William Harris’s plantation, “Forest Farm;” Harris’s daughter, Sarah, married A. J. Pickett, Alabama’s first historian, and ...

Beringer Brothers Winery

Built by Frederick and Jacob Beringer, natives of Mainz, Germany. This winery has the unique distinction of never having ceased operations since its founding in 1876. Here, in the European tradition, were dug underground wine tunnels hundreds of feet in ...