Roddis Line – Turtle-Flambeau Dam

Iron County Heritage Area

In 1925, the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company began construction on a dam to create a water reservoir for hydroelectric power, where the Turtle, Manitowish, and Flambeau rivers join.

The Roddis company owned land in the area, which ...

Flambeau Trail – Turtle Flambeau Flowage Dam

Iron County Heritage Area

The Turtle Flambeau Flowage was born in 1926, when the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company built a dam on the Flambeau River, downstream from its confluence with the Turtle River improving its usefulness for power-generating and papermaking ...

Memorial Union Tower

In grateful memory

of these

Heroic Sons of Missouri

who in the Great War

- 1917 - 1918 -

paid the full measure

of devotion

[Roll of Honored Dead]

Tipping of the Hats

When the Memorial Union Tower was completed in 1926, the names of MU's honored 117 men ...

Fort Kanarra

Old Kanarra, as it was called by early inhabitants, was founded in the spring of 1861 by settlers who moved from Fort Harmony. The town was situated on Kanarra Creek about one mile north and east of the present location. ...

Fort Harmony

Established May 9, 1854, by John D. Lee, Richard Woolsey, William R. Davis and others who had founded Harmony in 1852. County seat of Washington County until 1859. Headquarters of Mormon Mission to Lamanites 1853-1854.

The fort was finally abandoned in ...

In Honor of Chief Toquer

In early June 1854, eight members of the Southern Utah Indian Mission left Harmony to visit Toquer, chief of the Paiute Indian band living on lower Ash Creek. Chief Toquer's tribe referred to themselves as Paiute, Toquit, or Toquart Indians. ...

Toquer

Old Jail Rock

Toquer

Old Jail Rock

1860

Marker is at the intersection of Utah Route 17 and East Old Church Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 17.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Toquerville

In 1854 President Brigham Young sent scouts to locate sites for settlement. Indians living here called it Toquer (Meaning Black). In 1858 eight families were sent from New Harmony to colonize here. They named it Toquerville, which became the county ...

Old Sterrett Cemetery

“Cedars of Beulah Land Burial Ground”

This cemetery was established around 1841. The oldest marked grave is for Polly Webster (1822-May 3, 1841), daughter of Beulah Land founder Henley Webster, born February 5, 1805 in Anderson County, SC and died February ...

Papal Visits to New York City

Pope Paul VI * Pope John Paul II * Pope Benedict XVI

Panel 1:

His Holiness, Pope Paul VI

on his arrival

for the first Papal visit

to America

came to this Cathedral

to adore

the Blessed Sacrament

4 October ...