“Grandfather’s House”

In 1844 Lydia Maria Child (1802 – 1880) wrote of her childhood visits to her grandfather’s house at 114 South Street in the poem “Over the River and Through the Woods” from her home at the corner of Ashland and ...

Father Adalbert Inama -- St. Norbert House

Father Adalbert Inama a Norbertine Missionary was born in Wilton Tyrol Austria on December 26, 1798. He came to the Roxbury - Sac Prairie area in November 1845. Early the next year he built an 18 x 20 foot log ...

Father Gabriel Richard

Priest

Educator-Statesman

Secured funds in 1825 through the United States Congress for the survey of the Great Sauk Trail

now U.S. Highway 112 thus opening this artery of civilization into the west

Marker is on U.S. 12 2 miles east of State Highway 99, ...

Father Marquette

Father Marquette

offered

the Holy Sacrifice of Mass

on this spot

November 1, 1674.

Marker can be reached from Hathaway Drive near Lakeshore Drive, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Father Antonio Ubach

Last of the Padres

Antonio Dominic Ubach, passionate advocate for California Native Americans, and defender of Indian rights, ran St. Anthony’s Indian School on this site from 1856 to 1891. Father Ubach, created programs to help hundreds of Indian children adapt ...

Father Hennepin Bluffs

This was the site from which Father Louis Hennepin, the Franciscan Priest, first viewed the Falls of St. Anthony in June of 1680. He named the falls after his patron saint St. Anthony of Padua.

The famous waterfall was responsible for ...

Andersonville / Father Peter Whelan

(Side 1):

The city of Andersonville was incorporated in 1853 as the village center of a small farming community. It came to national attention when Camp Sumter Prison opened here in 1864 and especially when its commandant, Capt. Henry Wirz, was ...

Father of the River Walk

February 8, 1902 — July 22, 1980

Robert H. H. Hugman, architect, revered for his role in development of the river walk, 1939-1941, opened his office at river level in this circular space in early 1941. He remarked at the time, ...

Father Garces

1738-1781

In early 1776, he set out northward from Yuma Villages on the Colorado River on a journey that took him across the Mojave Desert to the Mission of San Gabriel. He was a master of finding guides who would escort ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Father

Four miles west, Thomas Lincoln, father of the President, was born about 1778. He was taken to Kentucky by his father about 1781. Beside the road here was Lincoln Inn, long kept by a member of the family.

Marker is on ...