Kelsey's Landing

Freedom was assured for escaping slaves who boarded Canadian vessels here at the end of the Underground Railroad.

Marker can be reached from Maplewood Park near Driving Park Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Double Bank

Seeing Double

As you gaze across Water Street toward the eight-pillar institution, compare closely what you see in the photograph with what stands here today. Built in 1831, the building was designed by architect Russell Warren. For 61 years the building ...

Perry Ellis

Fashion Walk of Fame

One of the most popular designers of the 1980s, Perry Ellis brought a new look to American sportswear. His clothes were relaxed, unpretentious and fresh. “I don’t make fashion,” Ellis insisted, “I make clothes.” By experimenting ...

Willi Smith

Fashion Walk of Fame

Willi Smith was inspired, he said, not by Paris but by Sunday church in Harlem. His WilliWear line, founded in 1976, was characterized by loose silhouettes in brightly colored fabrics. Exuberant and witty, his clothes were ...

Lilly Daché

Fashion Walk of Fame

Lilley Daché was one of the world’s most successful milliners. Working in New York, she utilized techniques learned in her native France. Her hats were characterized by bold, sculptural shapes, which required complex blocking, Many were ...

Waverly Five and Dime / George Elmore and Elmore v. Rice

Waverly Five and Dime)

The Waverly Five & Dime, located here until about 1957, was managed 1945-48 by George A. Elmore (1905-1959), the African American plaintiff in a landmark voting rights case soon after World War II. Elmore ran this ...

Mansfield Orthodox Congregational Church

Here in the old red brick school house was held the first service of worship by the Mansfield Congregational Church May 20, 1828

This tablet was placed in memory of that service

May 20, 1963

Marker is on West Street just east ...

93rd Illinois

3rd Brigade - 2nd Division

[Front Side]:

Illinois

93rd Infantry

3rd Brigade - Matthies,

2nd Division - John E. Smith,

17th Army Corps - McPherson.

[Back Side]:

The metal plaque is missing.

Marker is on North Crest Road north of Lightfoot Mill Road, on the right when traveling north. ...

General James Mitchell Varnum Home

General James Mitchell Varnum Brigadier General of the Continental Army was instrumental in creating the Rhode Island Black Regiment which provided the first genuine route to freedom for Afro-American people in Rhode Island

Marker can be reached from the intersection of ...

Milwaukee News Bldg. and Milwaukee Abstract Assn. Bldg.

222 East Mason Street

Listed in the

National Register

of

Historic Places

March 1, 1982

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin

In Association with the U.S. Department of Interior

Marker is at the intersection of East Mason Street and North ...