John Philip Sousa

(1854 - 1932)

Author, Bandmaster,

composer of:

Stars and Stripes Forever,

Washington Post,

"Semper Fidelis",

and other famous marches,

was born in this house

on November 6, 1854

Restored 1960-1

Randall C. & Jaquire D. King

Marker is on G ...

Spaulding Tower / Towers and Interlocking Plants

Spaulding Tower

For over 90 years, this classic Midwestern interlocking tower protected the junction of the Milwaukee Road and the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern at Spaulding, just east of Elgin, Illinois.

Originally built around 1890 when the EJ&E extended north toward Waukegan, ...

Chicago Railways Company Date Stone

ca. 1908

This date stone came from the Chicago Railways Company "West Shops" complex located in Chicago at Maple and Harding Ave. Streetcars were built there and the shops survive to this day serving the Chicago Transit Authority. This stone was ...

General Hospital – 1777

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . the new Hospital . . . 250 long & 24 wide.”

- Rev. Enos Hitchcock, June 14, 1777

This shallow, dry-laid stone foundation was for the largest building at Mount Independence – a 250-foot ...

Ratcliff CCC Camp

J.H. Ratcliff's 1880s sawmill and village here gave way to major timber industry operations that by the early 1930s had decimated Houston County's densest virgin forest. As part of federal efforts to restore the nation's natural resources, Civilian Conservation Corps ...

Third Brigade Encampment – 1776

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . our Men is clearing the Encamping Ground over the Lake.”

- Sgt. Timothy Tuttle, July 23, 1776

In July 1776 Northern Army commander Gen. Horatio Gates organized regiments at Mount Independence and Ticonderoga into ...

Copper Ridge Dinosaur Trackway

Welcome to Copper Ridge. Here, you can see the

tracks of two different dinosaurs. The larger

were probably made by an Allosaurus,

while the smaller three toed tracks were made by

one of a number of smaller bipedal carnivorous

spedies.

Courtesy hmdb.org

German POWs in the East Texas Timber Industry

The U.S. Army began building POW camps in the United States in early 1942 for captured Axis prisoners. During World War II, the Army shipped almost 425,000 military prisoners to 511 camps in the U.S. Approximately 50,000 of those POWs, ...

Campbell & Hatch Saloon and Billiard Parlor

1881

Bob Hatch and John Campbell opened a billiard parlor in 1880. Bob Hatch was a colorful character and an amateur thespian. It was said he kept a jar of frogs on the counter as their croaking helped him predict ...

History Happened Here

You are standing on "Corn Cob Hill" where corn was once shelled, weighed and and lowered in hopper cars into a grain elevator below, thence onto ships.

Under the bridge to the left is the foot of the rapids where non-native ...