Schwartz's Battery

Battery E, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Schwartz's Battery,

"E" 2d Ill. Lt. Art., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

Marker is on Sherman Road 0.1 miles south of Cavalry Road, on the left when traveling ...

The Visit of President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet”

Centennial Celebration

In Commemoration of The Visit of President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet” to Seattle in May of 1908. From here The Fleet Continued on Their Famous Round the World Cruise.

Dedicated May 20, 2008 by Mayor Greg Nickels

Taylor's Battery

Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery - Sherman's Division

U.S.

Taylor's Battery,

"B" 1st Ill. Lt. Art., Sherman's (5th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery was engaged here from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Sherman Road 0.1 miles south ...

Dresser's Battery

Battery D, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Dresser's Battery,

"D" 2d Ill. Lt. Art., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, with two guns, was engaged here from 11.30 A.M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862. It retired to left ...

Elroy – Sparta State Trail

This 32 mile state trail was formerly the mainline of the Chicago and North Western Railway. The conversion from “rail to trail” represented a new concept in recreational development. Utilizing the abandoned railbed, it was the first trail of its ...

Columbus Waterworks

In 1824 the Mexican government granted to Elizabeth Tumlinson and her heirs the land and water rights to this area in the center of Stephen F. Austin's colony. The town of Columbus developed from a small frontier community. A fire ...

Atascadero Administration Building

This building, dedicated in 1914 and completed in 1918, was the headquarters for the Atascadero Colony, a model community envisioned by Edward G. Lewis. Designed by Walter D. Bliss of San Francisco and built of reinforced concrete and locally produced ...

Elroy – Sparta State Trail

This 32 mile state trail was formerly the mainline of the Chicago and North Western Railway. The conversion from “rail to trail” represented a new concept in recreational development. Utilizing the abandoned railbed, it was the first trail of its ...

The Road to Battle

See that flat depression in the ground? That’s the surviving imprint of the Great Wagon Road, a route used by thousands of settlers from the 1740s to the early 1800s.

The road began in Philadelphia, carrying Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish and Moravians ...

Signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville

Signed near this location on

Aug. 3, 1795

Line Drawing of the Principal Figures

in the signing of the treaty

1. Anthony Wayne

2. Little Turtle • 3. William Wells

4. William Henry Harrison

5. William Clark • 6. Meriwether Lewis

7. Isaac Zane • 8. Tarhe, the ...