French Creek Feeder

The canal bed beside the road is part of a channel constructed 1827-1834 to take water from Meadville to Conneaut Lake for the Erie Extension Canal. Two miles below here the Feeder crossed the creek by aqueduct.

Marker is on Cochranton ...

Yadkin College

A Methodist Protestant institution. Opened in 1856, made co-educational in 1878, closed in 1924. Building stands 1 mi. N

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 64 and Koontz Road, on the left when traveling east on U.S. 64.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Georgetown County National Guard Memorial

To our Guardsmen and Families of the 1 BN 178 FA: In appreciation for your sacrifices, bravery and loyalty during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2004~2005) From the Citizens of Georgetown County

Marker is on Main Street (South Carolina Route 521), on the ...

Lucas’ 1792 Wind Powered Sawmill

Jonathan Lucas and his Amazing Rice Mills

(Front):

The Sawmill at Cape Romain’s Mill Island

In the late 1780’s John Bowman of Peachtree Plantation hired the now famous millwright, Johnathan Lucas, to build a second less publicized mill, the wind~driven ...

Historical Badger Park

Badger Park, like our Badger State, took its name from this area where some of the miners, like badgers, “dug-in” for the winter, while others, called “suckers” moved on south. It includes 8½ acres of what was considered valuable land, ...

East Wiota Lutheran Church

Norwegian immigrants formed this congregation in 1844 and began constructing their church in 1847. This is the oldest Norwegian Lutheran church still in use in America.

Marker can be reached from Wisconsin Route 78 1 mile south of County Route N. ...

Isaac De Turk 1843 - 1896

Isaac De Turk came to Santa Rosa from Indiana in 1858. The son of a viticulturist, he was one of the first to appreciate the favorable conditions for growing wine grapes in this area and in 1862 established Belle Mount ...

Primrose Lutheran Church

In the mid-nineteenth century, many newly arrived Norwegian immigrants in southern Wisconsin depended upon the spiritual and practical guidance of itinerant Lutheran ministers to help successfully adapt to the new land. One of the most influential was evangelist Rev. Elling ...

1998 Wisconsin Assembly

On January 14, 1998, the Wisconsin Assembly met at the First Capitol in Belmont in honor of the Sesquicentennial of Statehood. The Territorial Legislature held its first session here in 1836, and convened for three more sessions in what is ...

Father Samuel Mazzuchelli

In 1835 Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, Dominican missionary, came to the lead region from the Green Bay-Mackinac frontier. One year later he addressed the opening session of the territorial legislature. Soon he was establishing schools and preparing teachers for the children ...