Slavery in the Valley

Abraham Lincoln most likely encountered slavery while living here as a young child in 1811, when Lincoln was two years old, this portion of Kentucky was part of Hardin County. At the time, there were 1,007 slaves in Hardin County, ...

Alderwood Manor Heritage Cottage

This cottage was built in 1917 by the Puget Mill Company as a residence for the superintendent of the 33-acre Alderwood Manor Demonstration Farm. F.C. McClane was the superintendent until the Company closed the Demonstration Farm in 1933. The property ...

Wickers Building

Built by the Puget Mill Company in 1919, this grocery and supply store was located on the North Trunk Road in Alderwood Manor (now 196th Street SW in Lynnwood). The Main Store was a familiar landmark half-way between Seattle and ...

In Memory of Captain James Cook, R.N.

In Memory of the great circumnavigator

Captain James Cook, R.N. who discovered these islands on the 18th of January, 1778, and fell near this spot on the 14th of February, 1779.

This monument was erected in November A.D. 1874 by some of ...

Noah Webster Birthplace

Has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic sites Act of August 21, 1935

This site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

The History of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1963

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry

West of the Mississippi River, in

this well, drilled by H. G. Johnston,

E. H. Akin, and Charles Rittersbacher

under contract for a water well

for the city of Corsicans in

1894, the first oil in commercial

quantities in ...

Old Mill Creek

In 1780 the British garrison at Fort Michilimackinac moved to Mackinac Island as a safer location during the American Revolution. Robert Campbell built a sawmill on this site to furnish lumber for the new fort and settlement. His sawmill and ...

Ironton Tanks / Tanks Memorial Stadium

(Side A) Ironton Tanks

Semi-professional football began in Ironton in 1893 with a team known as the Irontonians. The Ironton Tanks, founded in 1919, was a combination of two Ironton cross-town rival football clubs known as the Irish Town Rags and ...

City of Ironton

Founded 1849

In 1849, the city of Ironton was founded by local ironmasters, railroaders, and financiers associated with the Ohio Iron and Coal Company. They saw the city as a manufacturing and shipping point for their products. As a young industrial ...

Provisions for the City

Hub, Home, Heart

This high ground near the B&O Railroad tracks has been Union Terminal Market since 1931. That year Center Market on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, came down to make way for the National Archives. Vendors seeking new locations clustered ...