Patjens Post Office

In 1899, the Patjens family built this small office adjacent to their store on Church Street, to serve as the post office in Mount Pleasant. The Patjens family served as postmasters until 1917. Patjens Post Office has been owned and ...

Announcement of the Atomic Age

[Niels Bohr]

On this campus, January 26, 1939, Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr reported the splitting of the uranium nucleus with the release of two hundred million electron volts of energy, thus heralding the beginning of the atomic age. This announcement ...

Old State Fair Grounds

This square is part of the tract where state fairs were held 1856-61, 1869-1903. The buildings, used 1861-65 for Confederate barracks and hospital, as well as nitre and mining bureau in charge of Joseph LeConte and James Woodrow, were burned ...

Reverend Horatio S. Howell

Chaplain

In Memoriam.

Rev. Horation S. Howell

Chaplain.

90th Penn'a Vols,

was cruelly shot

dead on these

church steps on

the afternoon of

July 1st 1863.

"He delivereth me

from mine enemies;

Yea, thou liftest me

up above those that

rise up against me."

18th Psalms

48th verse.

"He being dead, yet

speaketh"

Hebrews 11, 4th.

Our tribute

Survivors Association

of the ...

Battle of Corydon

On July 9, 1863, along this wooded ridge - - - from the “Laconta” Road extending across the “Mauckport” Pike to the old “New Amsterdam” Road - - - occurred the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was between ...

Confederate Armory

1861-1864

Erected on land donated to the state

by Vardry McBee for the manufacture

of arms for the South Carolina troops

in the Confederate service.

George W. Morse, superintendent

of the works, invented and manufactured

a breech-loading carbine pronounced

by General Wade Hampton the best

that he had seen.

Marker ...

Long Cane Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church

4.5 miles northwest is Long Cane Church. Organized in 1771 as Associate Presbyterian, with the Rev. William Ronaldson as first stated supply. It united with Cedar Springs, March 7, 1786, under Dr. Thos. Clark; withdrew Sept. 15, 1808; part of ...

Cleveland Theater District

The Theater District, bound by Chester Avenue, Prospect Avenue, East 18th, East 9th and East 12th Streets, came into being at the turn of the 20th century, when Cleveland emerged as a thriving metropolis. Built between 1890-1928, the area hosted ...

Watching River Wildlife

Take a few moments on this spot to explore the South Platte River and the riparian woodland that runs beside it. You'll discover that this ribbon of life is a great place for wildlife watching.Where the South Platte flows through ...

Glacial Grooves State Memorial

Welcome to the Glacial Grooves State Memorial. This memorial, containing of three and one-half acres on Kelleys Island, has been administered by the Ohio Historical Society since 1932.

Impressive is size and shape, these glacial grooves are of great geologic significance ...