Burkhart Building

This graceful yet sturdy building is of the Italianate design. Shoes have been sold here since 1864, making it Ohio's oldest continuously operating footwear location. William Covill operated his store here in 1870. John Burkhart built the current structure in ...

Bogart's Tavern

First licensed in 1763, it was headquarters of the Committee of Observation and Inspection, which organized the revolutionary movement in Bucks County in 1775 & 1776. It was also the site where the county's first military organizations of the Revolution ...

Start of the Miami and Erie Canal

1825 - 1929

In emulation of those who, July 21, 1825,

here began the building of the

Miami & Erie Canal,

this Ohio property was rededicated

November 2, 1929, to its original purpose -

transportation, with the confident hope

that ...

Black Earth Indian Village

For hundreds of years, the Potawatomi village of Ma-Kah-Da-We-Kah-Mich-Cock (Black Earth) was located on this spot. The people lived in huts made of bark. They raised crops of corn, beans, pumpkin and squash, and lived off abundant fish and game.

Chief ...

Ceres Volunteer Fire Department

Dedicated to the

CERES VOLUNTEER

FIRE DEPARTMENT

Organized June 1, 1911

George W. Wood

First Chief

— Reorganized 1921—

Erected by the People of

Ceres 1940

Marker can be reached from 3rd Street near El Camino Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773 - 1777

Blue Sink

Visited by William Bartram, America's first naturalist, in 1774.

Erected by Newberry Garden Club in cooperation with Dist. V. FFGC National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.

Fla. Dept. of Transportation

Marker is on ...

William Bartram's Plantation

In 1766 on the banks of the St. Johns River at Little Florence Cove, William Bartram attempted to farm a 500-acre land grant. Bartram had spent much of the previous year exploring the new British Colony of East Florida with ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773 - 1777

In 1774, William Bartram visited Salt Springs, his six-mile springs, and proclaimed it a "Paradise of Fish"

Marker is on State Highway 19 ¼ mile south of County Road 316 (County Road 316), on the right ...

William Bartram Trail

1739 ~ 1823

The great Quaker naturalist of Philadelphia made a long journey through the southeastern states in the 1770's collecting botanical specimens. In May, 1774, he visited the Seminole Chief, Cowkeeper, at the Indian village of Cuscowilla located near ...

Sioux Quartzite Boulder

This large boulder was carried to Kansas by a glacier several thousand feet thick about 700,000 years ago during the Pleistocene (Ice) Age. The boulder was plucked from a bedrock source, the nearest located in southeastern South Dakota or northwestern ...