Paducah's Riverfront

Paducah's Riverfront was a critical break-in-bulk point on the nation's inland waterways system. Cargo from deeper draft vessels, as well as passengers and mail, would be loaded and unloaded on to packet boats that ran regular routes on the Tennessee, ...

First Mobile Home

The former Noble Dise Store was replaced with the island's first mobile home in 1959.

Manufactured homes remain popular today, but require a community-wide effort to move one into place after being delivered to the island by barge.

Marker is at the ...

Battle of Fort Recovery

Anthony Wayne Parkway

In 1793, Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne led a third expedition against the Indians. On this site where St. Clair met defeat, he built a post significantly named Fort Recovery, Dec. 23-26, 1793. Here was won the Battle of ...

St. Clair's Defeat / Fort Recovery

St. Clair's Defeat

300 ft. north, 900 ft. west, General St. Clair's army met its crushing defeat by the Indians on November 4, 1791.

Fort Recovery

Built on the same spot in 1793, by General Wayne.

Marker is on North Elm Street (Ohio Route ...

Site of Richmond College

These gateways

erected by the Trustees

as a memorial to the

Founders of Richmond College

mark the site

of the Institution

1834 - 1914

Marker is at the intersection of Lombardy Street and Grace Street on Lombardy Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Capt. Frederick Way, Jr.

1901-1992

Riverman, author, historian, America's foremost authority on inland waterways. Captain Way lived close to this spot, on River Avenue. Reared in Edgeworth on land settled by the Way family before 1800, he was the first president of the Sewickley Valley ...

Greenville County Veterans Memorial / Greenville County Medal of

[Veterans Memorial]:

Veterans Memorial

WWI 1917-1918

WWII 1941-1946

Korea 1950-1955

Military Branch Seals: United States Army, United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, United States Air Force, United States Coast Guard, United states Merchant Marine

Vietnam 1961-1975

Persian Gulf 1990

Undeclared Wars

POW...Remembering Those Who Served...MIA

[Medal of Honor]:

The Medal ...

Henry Clay Furnace / Iron Made in Kentucky

Henry Clay Furnace

Built 7¼ miles east in 1832 by Aylette Hartswell Buckner, S.V. Leedom, Cadwallader Churchill. A stone stack about 35 ft. high, 9 ft. across at widest inside, it burned charcoal fuel to produce pig iron and utensils from ...

The City of Leavenworth

Two weeks after Kansas was officially opened for settlement, the state's oldest city was born. The date was June 12, 1854, and the town was named for nearby Fort Leavenworth.

In September, type for the first regular weekly newspaper in Kansas ...

Alfred

Early in the morning of October 13, 1812, after galloping seven miles from Fort George, General Brock tethered his gray horse ‘Alfred’ here in the Village of Queenston in order to lead a charge on foot to repel the invading ...