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 ...

Walter Philip Reuther

1907 - - - - - 1970

“- - - - Whose memory is enshrined in the hearts of all of us.”

Born at Wheeling, W. Va. Sept. 1, 1907, the son of Valentine and Anna Reuther. One of four brothers, ...

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 ...

Kaehlers Mill

Established 1847

At the intersection of present day Covered Bridge and Kaehlers Mill Roads was the hamlet of Kaehlers Mill. A flouring mill was established in about 1847 by Charles F. Uhlig. After going bankrupt, Uhlig's mother sold the west half ...

Samuel Henry's Station

On the hill to the south, beside the Great War and Trading Path, later the Federal Road, Samuel Henry, Sr., built a fort by 1792. The half-breed John Watts and 200 followers attacked it in August, 1793. Henry’s first mill ...

The Brule St. Croix Portage

Upper Lake St. Croix end of trail,

discovered 1680.

Indians, voyageurs, explorers,

missionaries, traders and pioneers travelled

this path from the waters of the

Great Lakes to those of the Mississippi.

To all who pass this way

this trail is dedicated.

This tablet was placed by

Claude Jean Allouez ...

Daniel Greysolon Sieur Dulhut

In June and July 1680

Daniel Greysolon Sieur Dulhut

“Gentleman of the King’s Guard”

Soldier, Explorer, Trader, and Governor

accompanied by four Frenchmen

LaMaitre, Bellegrade, Masson, and Pepin,

passed up the Brule River, crossed by

portage to the St. Croix River then

down to the Mississippi.

These were the ...

Alleghany Springs

Yellow Sulphur Springs was developed on a modest scale by Jesse Kerr in 1859. In 1885, Nathan McCoy, of Indiana, built an elaborate hotel here. John Hanlon took it over in 1900, and operated it until the outbreak of World ...