North Baltimore / Community Firsts

Side A: North Baltimore

Located in southern Wood County, the village of New Baltimore was founded in 1860, with the first plat of twenty-nine acres recorded by B.L. Peters in 1873. Official incorporation occurred February 7, 1876, with the name being ...

Baskerville Apartments

1913-1914

The Baskerville Apartments is one of Madison's finest remaining early apartment houses, built in an era of population explosion caused by enlargement of the University of Wisconsin, state government and private industry. Downtown densities increased dramatically during this period before ...

Bibb Graves Hall

Built in 1929, Bibb Graves Hall opened in September, 1930. It was named for Alabama Governor Bibb Graves (1927-31, 1935-39) who was known as the “education governor.” Bibb Graves Hall served as the original administration building for this campus until ...

Camp of McAllister's Battery

Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S

Camp of

McAllister's Battery

"D", 1st Ill. Lt. Arty., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 1/2 mile S.E., at N.W. corner of Review Field.

Marker can ...

Pemberville Town Hall and Opera House

Completed in 1892 at the height of the region's oil boom, the Pemberville Town Hall followed a late-1800s municipal trend to house many civic functions under one roof. The fire station, jail, and council chambers occupied the ground level, while ...

The Village of Van Buren

Side A:

The Village of Van Buren was laid out December 28, 1833, by John Trout and George Ensminger on the boundary of Portage and Cass Townships. It was comprised of 53 lots surrounding a public square, and was named in ...

Central Park Veterans Memorial – Japanese American Combat Team

In Memory of

442nd

Japanese American

Combat Team

and their families

"Go For Broke"

Marker can be reached from South El Camino Real.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bethel Baptist Church

In 1799 the local Baptist Society acquired this land and soon built a meetinghouse. The Bethel congregation worshiped in the meetinghouse and was constituted as a church in 1817. About 1820 the members built a brick church here--the first in ...

Site of Ye Ebenezer Avery House

Shelterwas afforded our wounded and

dying soldiers within this house

after the massacre at Ft. Griswold

Sept. 6, 1781

Moved in 1971 to Ft. Griswold

State Battlefield Park

Marker is at the intersection of Thames Street and Latham Street, on the right when traveling north on ...

Covered Bridge 2 Mi.

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The covered bridge over Coheelee Creek, two miles north on the Old River Road, was ordered built by the Early County Board of Commissioners in 1883. It was erected by J. M. Baughman. Commissioners were J. S. Moseley, W. C. ...