Gamaliel Cemetery

Civil War Soldiers

Robert Comer

James Creek

George Crow

Grant Crow

Meredith Davis

Hiram Deckard

William Dickerson

John Dotson

Andrew Eakle

Benjamin Ford

Henry Fowler

Hiram Gist

Shepherd Gum

Jasper Hayes

Benjamin Holcomb

Cyrus Jenkins

George Jenkins

Nathaniel Jones

Thomas Proffitt

James Quinn

Silas Ray

William Rhoads

John Taylor

William Vaughn

Robert Welch ...

Woodland Cemetery

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Howard Daniels, who lived from 1815-1863, was a noted architect and landscape gardener. Over the course of his life, he designed six Ohio and New York cemeteries, including Woodland that began in 1852 when he laid out 20 ...

Nation Ford

Original trestle completed 1852

by Charlotte & South Carolina R.R.

on site of ancient crossing

known as the Nation Ford.

Burning by Federals April 19, 1865,

touched off sharp battle with Southern forces

which resulted in Union retreat.

trestle rebuilt after war.

Washed away by flood on July ...

Edgehill

Three miles north is Edgehill, home of Clement Carrington. He ran away from Hampden-Sydney College to join the Revolutionary army, served in Lee's Legion, 1780-81, and was wounded at Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781.

Marker is at the intersection of George ...

Cavalry Battles

In June 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia through gaps in the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains and into the Shenandoah Valley to invade the North. Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry corps screened the army from ...

Haynes’ Horseless Carriage

Here on July 4, 1894, Elwood Haynes made the first test run of an automobile which he designed and built. His car reached a speed of about seven miles per hour over a six mile course on the Pumpkinvine Pike.

Marker ...

Commemoration Park

Dedicated on

13 September 1997

Constucted by

436th Civil Engineering Squadron

Marker is on Heritage Road just from Reno Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Rapides des Peres

Voyageur Park

The rapids at De Pere were well known to all early travelers along the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, which provided the best access to the Mississippi. Despite Indian domination, the waterway served explorers, fur traders and voyageurs, missionaries, and ...

First Electrically Lighted City

On March 31, 1880, officials of Wabash began experimenting with Charles F. Brush’s carbon-arc lights. Four 3,000 candlepower lamps were placed atop the courthouse and used to illuminate the town until September, 1888.

Marker is on Wabash Street near Hill Street. ...

Memorial Place

Here were buried unidentified remains of victims of the River Raisin Massacre of 1813.

In 1872 surviving veterans of that war gathered in Monroe from Ohio and Kentucky. They headed a colorful civic pageant which halted solemnly at this spot while ...