Ashland Park / Olmsted Brothers In KY

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Ashland Park

In 1904, descendants of Henry Clay hired famed landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and John Charles Olmsted, to design Ashland Park neighborhood on the 600-acre estate. Constructed over a 15-year period, development was completed around 1930. The brothers ...

A Radical Idea: Government by the People

Senate House State Historic Site

Consider the sacrifices made by ordinary citizens like Abraham van Gaasbeck, who risked his life, family, and property, when he offered his modest stone house as a meeting place for the first New York State ...

Sonnentheil Home

Built in 1886-87 for German native Jacob Sonnentheil (d. 1908), this home probably was designed by prominent Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton. Sonnentheil served with the Confederacy during the Civil War and operated a wholesale dry goods store on The ...

The Galveston Movement

By the late 1800's, thousands of Jews began fleeing their homes in Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic policies and violent pogroms. Many immigrated to the U.S., establishing communities in New York City and elsewhere along the East coast. ...

The Eastman-Bishop-Bullock House

This house, constructed in 1872, is the oldest house in Eastman. In 1868, William Pitt Eastman founded the 400,000 acre Georgia Land and Lumber Company. Upon learning in 1870 that Station No. 13 along the Macon and Brunswick Railroad had ...

In Memory of the Men

40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

To the ...

Octave Chanute and "The Problem of The Ages"

Chanute - Wright Memorial

Mr. Chanute moved to Chicago in 1889 and began working on solving "the problem of the ages" - heavier-than-air flight.

Chanute corresponded with men all over the world interested in flight. He gathered all the information he could ...

Mather Air Force Base Navigators Monument

[Marker 1:]

In Dedication to the Men and Women

of Mather AFB

For 75 years of service to the

nation and the community.

[Marker 2:]

In Tribute to the Navigators

Who Trained at Mather AFB

To their skill to set the course

to their duty to complete the ...

The Wampum or Mexico

1789 - 1844

Chief of the Chippewa

Ottawa and Menominee

Indians of Manitowoc Co

Signed the treaties of

Butte des Mortes - 1827

Green Bay - 1828

Prairie du Chien - 1829

Chicago - 1833

Friend of the Early Settlers

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway Street and North ...

Site of the Jerome C. and Mary Chiles Davis Homestead

Two olive and two fig trees survive from the Davis’ prize-winning farm of the 1850’s. Nearby also stand some of the original shingled buildings of the University State Farm, located here in 1906. From this nucleus, the University Farm has ...