Fort Defiance

Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Trail

Wayne • Harrison

Winchester • Clay

Bird

1780 • Marches • 1813

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Fort

Defiance

Marker is at the intersection of Fort Street and South Clinton Street (Ohio Route 66), on the right when traveling west on Fort Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Golden Tigers and Class of 1942 Cadet Life Garden

The Cadet Life Garden

The Cadet Life Garden is dedicated to a special period in Clemson history. From its foundation until 1956, Clemson was an all-military college, one of seven in the nation. The student body was organized as a Corps ...

DC Recorder of Deeds Building/WPA Era Murals

515 D Street, NW

DC’s Art Deco/Art Moderne Recorder of Deeds Building (1941) houses city land records. Many notable African Americans have served as recorders of deeds since President Garfield appointed Frederick Douglass to the post in 1881. These include ...

Salem Village Witchcraft Victims' Memorial

In memory of those innocents

who died during the

Salem Village Witchcraft Hysteria

of 1692

Back Monument:

“I am an innocent person. I never had to do with witchcraft since I was born. I am a Gosple woman.”

Martha Cory

“The Lord above knows my innocencye . ...

Oxford

Originally part of Derby, Oxford was settled by people pushing inland from Derby, Stratford, and New Haven. Land was acquired in five purchases from the Paugussett and Pootatuck Indians. The first grant of settlement appears in Derby records of 1678. ...

Projectiles for U.S. 20-inch Rodman Gun

These thousand pound cast iron balls fit the huge gun in the park just outside the fort’s main gate. The 20-inch model of 1864 was experimental; the largest standard seacoast gun in use during our Civil War was the 15-inch ...

Blythe Ferry

One of the worst acts of "man's inhumanity" took place when an entire race of peoples were driven from their lands in 1838. It was here at Blythe Ferry that approx. 9000 Cherokees and Creeks camped while waiting to cross ...

Blythe Ferry

Around 1809, William Blythe, a Cherokee, established a ferry at this site to provide transportation for the settlers to the west and the Cherokees to the east. During the 1838 Trail of Tears, it was an important crossing, and it ...

Shipping in the Port of Savannah

Savannah's port is one of the busiest in the United States. The terminals that serve the port are only surpassed in East

Coast trade volume by the combined ports of New York and New Jersey. Some of the world's largest ...

Old Elko Fire Bell

According to the early history of Elko, Nevada, this curfew and fire bell played a vital role for local citizenry. It often rang to signal disastrous fires, deaths of celebrities, and celebrations.

Harbinger of both good tidings and bad, the ...