St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church

"Dues Optima Maxima" • "To God, the Best and the Greatest"

St. Anthony of Padua Church was built in 1902 under the direction of the Franciscan Order for the German Catholics in the Wichita area. St. Anthony's is the oldest Catholic ...

Historic Milwaukee

North Plankinton Avenue

Picture Milwaukee in 1835. Potawatomi and Menomonee tribal lands had been ceded by treaty to the federal government in 1831 and 1833, and the land made available for sale. By 1835 there were 125 hardy settlers living ...

Elks Club

Packers Heritage Trail

The Elks Club was the site of an annual sports banquet that honored many of the biggest names in Packer history from the Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi eras.

The first was billed as the "Lombardi Testimonial Banquet" and ...

Charles Lee Moore

Recipient of 1989 of the first Kodack Award for Photojournalism, Charles Moore chronicled such major events as the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's South, political violence in Haiti, and the air war in Vietnam.

Marker is on Hightower Place, on ...

Stewart Ernest Cink

Winner of both national and international golfing championships, in 2009 Stewart Clink became the first native Alabamian to claim the coveted claret jug as the champion of the British Open in Turnberry, Scotland.

Marker is on Hightower Place, on the left ...

Frank Perron Achorn

In 1947 Frank Achorn began his successful work as a chemical engineer in 45 states and 40 countries to feed the hungry of the world through increased crop yields. He later secured eight patents related to the fertilizer industry.

Marker is ...

Women in Greencastle History

The Post-Civil War years in Greencastle were significant for women. Because they had proved themselves so capable at filling jobs usually held by men, new doors opened for them. In 1867 Indiana Asbury University (later renamed DePauw University) admitted four ...

Putnam County Playhouse (PCPH)

The Putnam County Playhouse was first established as Greencastle Summer Theatre in late 1961. Its first two productions, Blithe Spirit and Kiss and Tell were presented at the Junior High Auditorium. The organization was incorporated in 1963 as Putnam County ...

La Porte – Quincy Wagon Road

On May 1, 1866 a special election was held in Plumas County to issue bonds in the sum of $20,000 for the construction of the La Porte – Quincy Wagon Road. The 34-1/2 mile road was completed in 1867 under ...

“Quick Silver Charley”

Charles W. Hendel

Snow-shoe Race beginning 1854

Sierra County Surveyor 1870

Deputy U.S. Surveyor 1871

Plumas County Surveyor 1879

Plumas County Supervisor 1910

Snow-shoed to Quincy for meetings

past the age of 80

Marker can be reached from Church Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org