John Crane

In 1830, John Crane applied to be a part of Joseph Vehlein's colony. Reportedly from Virginia, he was a veteran of the War of 1812. He moved his wife and seven children to what is now Walker County, Texas, in ...

First New Jersey Brigade

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer's Battery

September 17, 1862

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This stone marks the right of the Brigade when a little after noon, it was formed to charge the woods north of the Dunkard Church. The order was countermanded and the ...

Major Richard A Keylor Sr

Gallantly served his country

9 October 1957 - 31 March 1987

Command Pilot • Instructor

Safety Officer

U-2 • F-4 • T-38 • UH-1

Courtesy hmdb.org

Major General Frederic H. Miller, Jr., USAF

CO of the 491st Bombardment Group (H)

A tribute to our commander

North Pickenham, England • June-December 1944

The men of the 491st Bomb Group (H), 8th Air Force, gratefully recognize our wartime commander.

His inspirational leadership, unwavering courage, and high moral standards molded ...

1897 Clark County Jail

The Clark County Historical Society

1897 Jail Museum

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

December 8, 1978

Wisconsin Historical Marker

This property is listed in the

Wisconsin

State Register of

Historic Places

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Clark County

Jail

has been recognized ...

Jesse Bean

The first permanent settler in what later became Franklin Co., he established a forge and gunsmith shop in a cave on Caney Hollow Branch, about three miles north, shortly after 1800. A gunsmith of great ability, his 45-inch long rifles ...

St. James’s

My Lady’s Manor

Established 1750 as a Chapel of Ease in the Parish of St. John’s of Joppa. In a brick chapel 60 x 30 feet, now the transept, was finished on this site “in the fork of the Gunpowder River” ...

Junction Park

(1901-1964)

Built by Beaver Valley Traction Co. to increase trolley ridership. 2 roller coasters, carousel, diner theatre, dance hall, dark ride, and grandstands with a racetrack and ballfields. In 1929 an Olympic pool was added. The rides were gone by 1941 ...

“His Majesty’s Fort of Crown Point”

“The fort is of wood, built in a most masterly manner. It has five Bastions, mounts 105 guns, and has casements for 4,000 Men, and to hold provisions de Guerre et de Bouche for four months. Within the Fort are ...

John Fitch's Steamboat

Fitch tested near here a model steamboat in 1785. Before his death in 1798, he built 4 mechanically successful steamboats. The first in the U.S., they proved financial failures, leaving final success of the idea to Robert Fulton.

Adjacent, stone ...