The Athens Double-Barrelled Cannon

This cannon, the only known one of its kind, was designed by Mr. John Gilleland, a private in the “Mitchell Thunderbolts,” an elite “home guard” unit of business and professional men ineligible because of age or disability for service in ...

Lincoln Speaks at Church

[ Left Section ]

Abraham Lincoln spoke in

the little Presbyterian Church

on the northwest corner of

Livingston and Mill streets on

Jan. 27, 1860, shortly before being nominated for the presidency at the Republican National Convention in Chicago on May 16. Lincoln had received ...

Ponkapoag Plantation

1630 - 1930

The north line of Ponkapoag Plantation second of the Apostle Eliot's Praying Indian towns, set apart by the Dorchester Proprietors in 1657.

Marker is on Washington Street (Massachusetts Route 138).

Courtesy hmdb.org

D T & I Railroad's Uniopolis, Ohio, Station

Lincoln Park Train Exhibit

In 1964, the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad donated an equipped station to the Lincoln Park Railroad Exhibit. The depot behind you was moved from its original location at Uniopolis, Ohio ten miles to the south. ...

Battle of Kolb’s Farm

June 22, 1864

The 3 brigades of Williams’ (1st) Div., 20th A. C., [US] were posted on the high ground W. of the road between this point and the Powder Springs Road.

Geary’s (2d) Div. [US] right joined Williams at the ravine ...

The Old Connecticut Path

1630 - 1930

An Indian trail before 1630 left the road here to go over Fay Mountain.

Marker is on Ruggles Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Senator Daniel Webster

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable,” Senator Daniel Webster, January 1830.

Senator Daniel Webster, eloquent advocate for the preservation of the Union and a political giant in pre-Civil War America, lived and ...

Remaking a Nation

Upon arrival in the western territory, the Cherokee emigrants settled among several thousand Cherokee Old Settlers. Relations proved rocky and a generation of conflict followed. Despite the tensions the Cherokee began to rebuild their lives and Nation. They reestablished their ...

The Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet

June 29, 1776

A memorial to the seamen and officers

of the

Brigantine Nancy

Marker is at the intersection of New Jersey Avenue and E Miami Avenue, on the right when traveling south on New Jersey Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Shelby County Operation Desert Storm Memorial

Southwest Asia Service

Operation Desert Storm

In honor of the men and women

from Shelby County who served

God Bless Our Troops

August 1990 - February 1991

Marker is at the intersection of Main Avenue (Ohio Route 29) and Poplar Street, on the right when traveling ...