Menhaden Fishing Industry

The Atlantic Menhaden is a small herring-like fish found in the coastal waters of the Eastern United States. Used by Native Americans to fertilize crops, these oily fish were also used by European settlers to produce fuel for lamps. In ...

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 ...

Fort Gaines

Established in 1821 for defense of Mobile Bay and named in honor of General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 1777-1849 who played an important part in early Alabama History and while Commandant of Fort Stoddard captured Aaron Burr near McIntosh in February ...

Free-Town Church

Built in 1846 by freed slaves of William Howard, who gave them 400 acres on which to build homes, known since then as Free-Town. Albert Martin gave them the land for the church. No replacements of the original building material ...

Emmett Forest Branch

31st Governor of Indiana

Emmett Forest Branch

1874 - 1932

Lifetime resident Martinsville; Graduated Martinsville High School 1891; L.L.B. Indiana University 1896; Practiced law in Martinsville; Lieutenant, Company K Spanish-American War; Colonel Indiana’s 152nd Infantry W.W. I; State Representative; Speaker of House; Lt. ...

Riversville / Battle of Secessionville

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Riversville

Riversville, an antebellum village of fourteen acres, with seven lots on Savannah (later Secessionville) Creek, was established here in 1851 by Constant H. Rivers (1829-1910), who believed that the sandy soils and marsh breezes of James Island ...

Federal Expedition on John's Island / Battle of Burden's Causewa

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Federal Expedition on John's Island

The Battle of Burden’s Causeway was the climax of a Federal expedition against John’s Island, July 2-9, 1864. 5000 Federals under Brig. Gen. John P. Hatch crossed the Stono River and advanced along ...

Three Stamp Mill from the Red Ledge Mine

This three stamp mill was donated to the City of Grass Valley by Mrs. Stella Tracy, owner of the famous Red Ledge Mine near Washington, Nevada County, where this mill crushed tons of gold bearing ore for many years.

It is ...

Navigating the Golden Gate - Bonfires, buoys, and foghorns

Deep channels make San Francisco’s remarkable harbor accessible to immense ships. On the other hand, a narrow entrance, swift currents, high winds, rocks, and fog make navigating the Golden Gate treacherous. Early mariners looked for on-shore bonfires, painted rocks, ...

Whitefield House

Begun in 1740 at request of Methodist missionary Reverend George Whitefield as a school for Negroes. Completed by the Moravians in 1743. Served as a communal church-home for 32 newly married German couples brought over in 1744.

Marker is on South ...