Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District

The Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District is nestled in a beautiful cove between two heavily forested ridges of the Swannanoa Mountains, a range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina. Blue Ridge Assembly was founded in 1912, due ...

Black Mountain College Historic District

The Black Mountain College Historic District, currently known as Camp Rockmont for Boys, is located three miles from Black Mountain. Six hundred acres, a portion of the original tract, is primarily meadowlands of the Great Craggy Mountains, which is divided ...

Hanscom Park Flower Garden

Land for Hanscom Park was donated in 1872 by Andrew J. Hanscom and James Megeath. Improvements including flower beds, lakes, cascades and fountains greatly changed the site’s rugged character. In time, the park was referred to as “one of the ...

Hanscom Park Lagoon

Hanscom Park, Omaha’s oldest remaining park, was designed by landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland in 1889. Early improvements were described in the 1898 Park Commissioner’s Report: “Two lakes, a cascade, extensive flower beds, two and one-half miles of macadamized roadway, fountains ...

People, Places, and Stories

The joint efforts of many individuals and groups – among them military men and scientists, a president and an enslaved man, French-speaking boatmen and American Indians, women and men – determined the fate of the Corps of Discovery. Today, more ...

Wabash College Students who Served in the Civil War

~? ~? ~ ~ Roll of Honor ~ ~? ~?

[ Row One ]

~ ~ ~ Major Generals ~ ~ ~

Lewis Wallace ? Edward R. S. Canby ? Joseph J. Reynolds

~ ~ ~ Brigadier Generals ~ ~ ~

John C. ...

Colonel Arthur Campbell

Grave of Colonel Arthur Campbell (1743-1811). Statesman, revolutionary soldier, justice, legislator, county lieutenant. Sons, James and John killed in War of 1812.

Marker is at the intersection of North 24th Street and Gloucester Avenue, on the right when traveling north on ...

Sauk City

Sauk City originally was the site of an important Indian village. Jonathan Carver visited here on October 9, 1766 and wrote, "This is the largest and

best built Indian town I ever saw. It contains about 90 houses, each large enough ...

Blackhawk Country Club Mound Group

the

Blackhawk Country Club Mound Group

in

Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin

is listed in the

National Register

of

Historic Places

Marker is on Lake Mendota Drive 0.4 miles east of Merrill Springs Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Canadian Airmen Monument

Panel 1:

Per Arua Ad Astra

In Memory of our Canadian

Airmen who fought in the

Skies to preserve freedom

and order in the world.

Panel 2:

Canadian Airmen Awarded the Victoria Cross

World War I:

William Avery Bishop

Alan Arnett McLeod

William George Barker

World War II:

Andrew Charles Mynarski

David Ernest Hornell

Ian ...