Cruiser Olympia - Submarine Becuna

OLYMPIA

Cruiser OLYMPIA, launched in 1892, is the oldest steel warship afloat today. OLYMPIA is best known as Commodore George Dewey’s flagship in the Battle of Manila Bay, Philippine Islands during the 1898 Spanish American War. After defeating the ...

Robert E. Harlan Plaza

Robert E. (Bob) Harlan, the ninth president in Packers history, played a central role in orchestrating the $295 million Lambeau Field redevelopment, first unveiled in 2000 and completed at the start of the 2003 season. Harlan's unwavering leadership and vision ...

Battle of Davis Bridge

October 5, 1862

Here a force of three brigades under Major General E.O.C. Ord, USA, enroute from Bolivar to Corinth, seized high ground to the east and turned aside the Confederate Army of W. Tennessee, retiring to Holly Springs after its ...

Oneida Baptist Institute

The land for what became Oneida Baptist Institute was donated by Martha Coldiron Hogg and S.P. Hogg in September 1899. The school was founded by James Anderson Burns, December 20, 1899, as Mamre Baptist College to meet the social, educational, ...

First United Brethren in Christ Church in Kansas

A First Kansas Church

Built by Rev. W. A. Cardwell

see other side

The first church of the United Brethren in Christ, in Kansas, now Evangelical United Brethren, was built by Rew. W. A. Cardwell, in 1856, about 100 ft. southwest of this ...

Ladson Presbyterian Church

Congregation originated in the Sabbath School for colored people organized by the First Presbyterian Church 1838, later conducted by the Rev. G. W. Ladson. A chapel for the Negro members of that church was built here 1868. Rebuilt 1896. The ...

Bank Of Wisconsin

On this site stood the

Bank Of Wisconsin

1835

The first bank west

of Lake Michigan

The building was erected by

The American Fur Trading Co.

and was a part of John Jacob Astor

Trading House & office

Marker is on Chicago Street west of South Adams Street.

Courtesy ...

Soda Works Building

E.A. Spalding, Contractor 1888

Robert Agers constructed this building to manufacture "the very best soda water" for customers throughout California. The recessed storefronts, second-floor oriel windows, and high false front are all largely unchanged from a 1904 expansion. The building evokes ...

Boats of the Bay

1. Ferry

Increasing numbers of Rhode Islanders board cruise boats and ferries to get out of the Bay. These ferries are reminiscent of the pleasure steamboats that were so common on Narragansett Bay one hundred years ago.

2. Fast Frigate

Navy destroyer tenders ...

Riegelsville Roebling Bridge

Centennial Celebration

Built by John A. Roebling's Sons Co.

Opened for traffic April 18th, 1904

Owned and Operated by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission

Marker is on Delaware Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org