Smyrna Opera House and Old Town Hall

In the spring of 1869, the Commissioners of Smyrna approved a plan to erect a Town Hall. Responding to the long-held desire of the citizens for a venue for public gatherings, architect Richard Mitchell designed the building to include a ...

Petrified Conifer Tree / Petrified Lycopod Tree Stump

Plaque A

85-90 Million Years Old

Possibly a Bald Cypress

from the Cretaceous Period

or the Age of Dinosaurs

Plaque B

325 Million Years Old

A Member of the Giant Club Mosses

from the early Coal Age

Marker is on S. Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Ortt's Preble County Civil War Memorial

Erected by

Wm. H. Ortt

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Sacred to the memory

of his comrades of

the Civil War from

Preble County Ohio

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A.D. 1931

1861 1865

Marker can be reached from Camden Road (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Point Of Beginning

Late in 1831, when Wisconsin was still in Michigan Territory, Lucius Lyon, U. S. Commissioner on the survey of the northern boundary of the State of Illinois, set a post and erected a mound of earth 6 feet square at ...

Periscope Test Facility

Building 94

An industrial-looking building with few windows stood on this site directly in front of the fort from the 1770s until 1999. It was designed specifically for top-secret work in periscope technology.

Originally, periscopes were simple tube-shaped optical devices that permitted ...

Site of the Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe

A Spanish outpost founded in 1716 by the pioneer Franciscan Antonio Margil de Jesus as a means of civilizing the Nacogdoches Indians. Abandoned temporarily due to the French incursions from Louisiana in 1719. Restored by the Marquis of Aguayo in ...

Old Holly Creek P.O.

May 16, 1864. Brig. Gen. J.D. Cox’s Div., 23d A.C., [US] having crossed the Conasauga River at Hogan’s Ford, 2 mi. S. of Tilton, camped at or near Holly Creek P.O., in this vicinity.

May 17. Learning that 20th Corps troops ...

First Presbyterian Church of Aiken

[Front):

This church, founded in 1858 with 14 charter members and W. Peronneau Finley and John D. Legare as elders, first met in the Aiken Town Hall on Laurens St. Its first permanent sanctuary, a frame building designed by Charleston architect ...

Mansfield Township Veterans Monument

Dedicated in honor of the sacrifices made by the men and women of Mansfield Township who served in the armed services on the United States in all wars.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Patton Elementary School

(1891-1958)

First school in Florence Public school system built 1890 on land given by Governor Robert M. Patton. It was occupied in 1891. Designed originally to serve all white elementary school children of Florence. Usually served six grades divided into nine ...