Canal Terminus / Manhattan

Ohio Historical Marker

[Marker Front]:

Canal Terminus

The original northernmost lock in a canal system which linked Lake Erie with the Ohio River was located near the foot of LaSalle Street. Indiana’s Wabash & Erie Canal (1843 – 1874) joined Ohio’s Miami & ...

The National Building Museum

Civil War to Civil Rights

“It’s too bad the damn thing is fire proof,” General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1887.

The nation’s only museum dedicated to American achievements in architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering, and design is appropriately housed in one ...

National Native American Vietnam Veterans Memorial

"The Forgotten Warrior"

This memorial statue was envisioned to serve as a touchstone where the quiet tears of unresolved grief from mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends could be shed in an honorific setting and be strengthened by the groundswell ...

Southern Battery – 1777

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“began the works at 3 places on Mount Independence.” -

Col. Jeduthan Baldwin, June 20, 1777

On June, 1777, American Chief Engineer Jeduthan Baldwin wrote in his journal, “in the afternoon went with Col. Kosiusko ...

State of Ohio Korean War Memorial

and All Veterans' Memorial Walkway

Welcome to the

Ohio Korean War Memorial

and All Veterans' Memorial Walkway

During the 120th General Assembly regular

session 1993-1994, both houses of the

State of Ohio Legislature unanimously

voted Dayton as the official site

of the Ohio Korean War Memorial.

This memorial site ...

Moses Tunda Tatamy

(ca. 1695 - ca. 1760)

A Delaware Indian of the Munsee branch, he exemplified the spirit of reconciliation. He lived on 315 acres northeast of here, patented to him by the Penns, 1738. Tatamy was the first Native American baptized by ...

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D. / Patterson Hospital

Side 1:

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D.

April 16, 1867 – Dec.31, 1930

Dr. Fred Patterson was born in Stewart Co., Ga., attended South Georgia Agriculture College, Cuthbert, graduated Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1890. He practiced in Lumpkin four years before moving to ...

First Catholic Church In Green Bay

Near this site stood the first Catholic church in Green Bay begun in the year of our Lord 1823 by Father Gabriel Richard Vicar Apostolic of the Northwest and finished by Father Stephen Badin first resident pastor and missionary.

A short ...

Site Orientation

On this rocky and windy promontory overlooking the Thames River, more than two hundred years of military history have unfolded. The history of this place and those who served here reflects strategic and technological developments from the American Revolution through ...

Delaware Breakwater Quarantine Station

1884-1926

Many of the European immigrants who came to this country at the end of the nineteenth century brought with them a variety of epidemic diseases including cholera, typhus, smallpox and bubonic plague. This posed a serious threat to urban areas ...