Badger State Shoe Factory

Ferdinand Kronenberg, Architect

Albert and Henry Atkins founded the Badger State Shoe Factory in Milwaukee in 1893. They expanded production to Madison in 1900 and in 1910 constructed this building to consolidate manufacturing operations. Significant for its association with turn of ...

Living in the Water

The Mississippi River has provided a habitat for many species of fish and other aquatic creatures for millions of years. Human modifications of the river have had both positive and negative effects on fish populations here. Many types of fish ...

Reading Observation No. 1

1937

Builder: Budd Company, Red Lion, PA

Build Date: 1937

Retirement Date: 1982

Number Built: 2

Weight: 97,000 lbs.

Length: 85 ft.

PHMC Cat No. RR78.52

The Crusader:

As the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, the Reading Company launched a new premier passenger service from Philadelphia ...

Confederate Futility

The Confederate plan called for dozens of cannon to gather here and on the Poindexter Farm, nearly a mile to the east (your left). Their combined fire, directed at the Union batteries atop Malvern Hill, would clear the way for ...

Washington’s Southern States Tour

In

patriotic commemoration

of

George Washington

on his

tour of the

Southern states

1791

Marked by the North Carolina

Daughters of the American Revolution

1925

Marker is on Old Battlefield Road, on the left when traveling north.

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St. Clair's Defeat

Anthony Wayne Parkway

When American pioneers attempted to settle the Northwest Territory following the Ordinance of 1787, the Indians, aided by the British fought fiercely for their homes. The first United States army sent to break the Indian resistance was commanded ...

Boone’s Station

Near this spot, Daniel Boone and party camped in 1780-1781. Camp called Boone’s Station until Owsley County was organized in 1843, then named Boonesville. Records show that Boone’s family owned land here until it moved to Missouri.

Marker is on Main ...

A Masterful Retreat

Gen. George W. Morgan’s 9000 USA force occupied Cumberland Gap June 18 to Sept. 17, 1862. Cut off from supplies, Morgan began a 200-mile retreat. From Manchester they moved in two columns, both seeking supplies, through here on to Proctor. ...

Nathaniel Macon

Nathaniel Macon

willed that his memorial should

consist only of rude stones.

----------

Here they are.

Marker can be reached from New Garden Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Battle of Lebanon

Near dawn on May 5, 1862, Colonel John Hunt Morgan’s 800 Confederate Cavalry camped around the Public Square and at Cumberland University on South College Street, were attacked by General Ebenezer Dumont’s Federal Cavalry of 600 as they advanced from ...