Huguenot Springs Confederate Cemetery

Approximately 250 unidentified Confederate soldiers, who died at nearby Huguenot Springs Confederate Hospital, are buried in unmarked graves about a mile and a half southwest of here. Burial records have never been located. The former Huguenot Springs Hotel Resort/Spa, opened ...

Oates

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Oates, a thriving rural community from the 1880s to the 1930s, grew up around a general store built nearby by William J. Oates (1826-1897). Oates's father James (1786-1873) had acquired a plantation here in 1824. William J. Oates, who ...

Douglas International Airport

At this location on June 5, 1933, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dedicated Douglas International Airport as the first international airport in the United States.

Designed by J. P. Sexton as the first and only truly ...

Site of the First Ohio State Football Game

On the morning of May 3, 1890, Ohio Wesleyan University and The Ohio State University met at this location for a football game. It was the first game in Ohio State football history. Ohio Wesleyan had invited the newly organized ...

Latrobe Gate - Tingey House

Latrobe Gate

Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1804, the gate and flanking guardhouses were constructed in the Greek Revival style. This style became very popular in the young nation, and the original section of the gate represents one of ...

The Old National Road

You are now traveling U.S. 40, the Old National Road, used in the westward expansion of our country. In 1837 notice was given that this section of the road would be constructed. A toll house was located at the ...

Pat Garrett Murder Site

Pat Garrett, the Lincoln County Sheriff who shot and killed William “Billy the Kid” Bonney at Fort Stanton in 1881, was himself murdered at a remote site nearby on February 29, 1908. Wayne Brazel, a local cowboy, confessed to shooting ...

Replica of the Statue of Liberty

With the faith and courage of

their forefathers who made

possible the freedom of these

United States

The Boy Scouts of America

dedicate this copy of the

Statue of Liberty as a pledge

of everlasting fidelity and

and loyalty

The Crusade to Strengthen Liberty

Marker is on 2nd Street near ...

Founding of Beatrice, Nebraska Territory

Dedicated to the Citizens of Beatrice

for all their efforts put forth in the

Beatrice Centennial Celebrations of 2007

Beatrice, Nebraska Territory

Founded on this site July 4, 1857

Time Capsule to be opened on July 4, 2057

200 years to the date

the founders celebrated on ...

Confederate State Capitol of Kentucky

Bowling Green named state capitol at the Convention in Russellville November 20, 1861.

First Governor, George W. Johnson.

Commissioners to the Confederate Congress, William Preston, W.W. Simms and Henry Burnett.

Marker is on College Heights Boulevard, on the right when traveling west. ...