Abney Athletic Center

This building was made possible by the

generous support of

The Abney Foundation

and

John R. Fulp, Jr.

It will forever serve as a tribute to the dedication and work of the many thousands of men and women who are a part of the textile ...

Mentor Lagoons Water Trail

[History related excerpts from the marker]

Natural Shoreline of Lake Erie

The Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve's 1.5-mile shoreline represents the longest stretch of publicly accessible natural beach in Ohio. Because it is one of the last remnants of a wild beach in ...

Old Hattiesburg High School

Under the direction of Principal J.T. Wallace, this building was Hattiesburg's High School from 1922 to 1959. Built in 1911, the structure acquired its present form when enlarged and remodeled in 1921 to the designs of Robert E. Lee, the ...

Wapatomica

Site of the Shawnee Village

Destroyed in 1786 by Gen. Logan. Home of Chief Black Hoof. Simon Kenton ran the gantlet here in 1778. General council of 7 Indian Nations was held here in 1782.

Marker is on County Route 5 0.1 ...

Great Notch

Used by Washington as a lookout while quartered at the Dey House, October, 1780. Major Parr’s Rifle Corps. camped in the ravine.

Marker is at the intersection of Rifle Camp Road and Old Rifle Camp Road, on the right when traveling ...

Transportation, Growth, and Development

Columbus was founded specifically for the purpose of being the state capital in 1812, and was selected primarily due to its location - near the center of the state. But a lack of transportation options restricted access to town. For ...

The Majestic Theatre

Built c1860

This building first housed Moore’s Music Hall (Victoria’s earliest existing theatre) upstairs, above Nathanial Moore’s dry goods store.

In 1885, a new facade was constructed to match the new building next door, with identical cast iron columns.

Various commercial uses followed, ...

Population on the Rise

In 1880 about 200 people lived in the cities of Eau Gallie and Melbourne. Eau Gallie's population in 1886 was 50. By 1890 the combined population in and around the two settlements was 374, of which 187 actually lived within ...

Death of Pretty Boy Floyd

(front)

In these fields, formerly the site of the Ellen Conkle farm, notorious Depression-Era desperado Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd met his death at the hands of federal agents and members of the East Liverpool Police Department on October 22, 1934.

Floyd's ...

Matthew Fontaine Maury

In this house

Matthew Fontaine Maury

L.L.D.-U.S.N.-C.S.N.

invented the

Submarine Electrical Torpedo

1861-1862

This stone is placed by the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

A.D. 1910.

Marker is at the intersection of East Clay Street and North 11th Street, on the ...