"The Great Endurance Run"

On November 24, 1909 the "Autoist" participating in "The Great Endurance Run" reached the "Turn Around Checkpoint" at the Jacksonville City Hall which was located at this exact site. The location marked the halfway point for the "Drivers and Observers" ...

McAllister State Graded School

The term “graded school” was used to refer to any school that had more than one room and therefore contained more than one grade level of pupils. The McAllister State Graded School was built in 1914 and added to in ...

Discovering the Colorful History of Columbus

Commemorating Columbus’ Sesquicentennial 1856-2006

The mural reveals important moments in the city’s development by “peeling through” eight of the numerous layers of time from the present to the past.

An aspect of the mural is the transition of color through the piece. ...

Town Branch

Under Vine Street flows the Town Branch of Elkhorn, the stream upon whose banks Lexington was established in 1779. Used in the early days to bring merchandise to Lexington from Ohio River. On Town Branch was launched Edward West's steamboat ...

Dodge County Veterans Memorial

All Gave Some • Some Gave All

In honor and memory

of all men and women

who served in the

Armed Forces of the

United States of America

God Bless America

Thank You

Dodge County Veterans

Dedicated August 15, 1998

Marker is at the intersection of 5th Street and Park ...

Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

The Battle of Lake Erie

September 10, 1813

American.........................................British

O.H. Perry............Commander............R.H. Barclay

9...............Vessels...............6

54...............Guns...............63

1. The battle begins near this spot at 11:45 A.M. The British open fire when the fleets are approximately one mile apart.

2. Perry's flagship, the Lawrence, is disabled after suffering 80% casualties ...

Franklintown Chapel

The Franklintown community was first populated by ex-slaves from the Samuel Harrison plantation. Franklintown Chapel's congregation was organized in 1880 by Trinity M.E. Church, located in the City of Fernandina at the north end of Amelia Island. The Reverend J.G. ...

McDonald Oil Field

Oil was first struck here in 1890, and in 1891 and 1892 the field yielded the highest levels of oil in the world. Second only in Pa. history to the Bradford Oil Field in both size and production, it was ...

Patrick J. Quinlan

1849 - - - - - 1893

President

United Association of Journeyman and

Apprentices of the Plumbing and

Pipefitting Industry of the

United States and Canada

1889 - 1892

A plumber born in Boston, Massachusetts, Patrick J. Quinlan was a member ...

Charles Luna

1906 - - - - - 1992

President, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

1963 - 1969

President, United Transportation Union

1969 - 1972

Contributing six decades to the Rail Labor Movement, Charles Luna began working as a Yard Switchman in 1928 on ...