Dawn Powell

The author of fifteen novels, ten plays, and more than 100 stories, Dawn Powell was born in 1896 in Mount Gilead at 53 West North Street and grew up in Shelby. She graduated from Lake Erie College in Painesville and ...

Great Shamokin Path

This major Indian path, connecting the Susquehanna and Allegheny rivers, paralleled the present highway at this point. Long used by Native Americans as a thoroughfare for hunting and trade, it was traveled by Delaware and Shawnee warriors during the French ...

Louis de Buade Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau

1622-1698

One of the most influential and controversial figures in Canadian history, Frontenac was born at St-Germain-en-Laye, France. As a member of the noblesse d'epee he was able in 1672 to secure the appointment as Governor-General of New France. Devoted largely ...

Bicentennial of Paducah

In 1966, Mayor Tom Wilson, a civic-minded Paducah native, was encouraged by then Kentucky Governor Ned Brethitt, to organize a celebration of the state's bicentennial. He envisioned festivities right on the riverfront where the city's history originated, as well as ...

Trinity Episcopal Church

Founded 1702

First service held December 29th 1703

By Rev. John Keith

First Church erected about 1712

Second Church erected on old site 1754

Charter granted by King George III

December 6th 1769

Second Church destroyed by fire 1858

Corner ...

The Pilothouse

This scene depicts a captain, a highly trained and skilled professional, standing his normal 6-hour navigation watch in a typical pilothouse. He is looking out over a 15-barge town with 24,000 tons of cargo. His location is down bound, passing ...

Mrs. J.D. Chapman

In Memory of

Mrs. J.D. Chapman

First President of Woman's Missionary Union

Auxiliary to South Carolina Baptist Convention

1902-1907 1913-1930

Dedicated Christian Missions Leader

of Vision and Ability

Honored by Name of WMU State Mission Offering

Her Watchword: "Be Ye Steadfast."

Marker can be reached from White Street.

Courtesy ...

Bernards Township War Memorial

1917 - 1918 1941 - 1945

Dedicated in grateful appreciation

to the men and women of

Bernards Township

who served in the armed forces

during World War I and World War II

that Peace, Freedom and Justice

might not perish from the Earth.

Marker is at the intersection ...

War Savings Stamps and World War I Memorial

“The Torch of Liberty”

This shaft was donated by the Ohio War Savings Committee to the County of Morrow as an award to her citizens who, in aid of the government, purchased more War Savings Stamps per capita than any other ...

POW Camp - WW II

In 1944-1945, Fort Niagara POW Camp housed interned German & Austrian soldiers, sailors, and airmen captured in North Africa and Europe.

Marker is on Scott Avenue 0.1 miles north of Main Street (New York Route 18F), on the right when ...