Pioneer Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury

Founded the

Mt. BETHEL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

in an old log church on this site

FRIDAY MAY 10, 1811.

On Thursday May 9, 1811 Bishop Asbury stayed at Halls Mill (now Asbury) with Col. William McCullough. He preached there in the barn. Then on ...

South Battery

The army built this gun line, known as the South Battery, around 1840, while the present Fort Trumbull was under construction. By 1879, this battery contained eight cannon of two types, six Rodmans and two Parrotts. A low protective wall ...

Wright Seaplane Base

Dayton Aviation Heritage Aviation Trail Site

Here on the Miami River in 1913, Orville Wright made the first successful takeoff and landing from water in a Wright Model C airplane fitted with a pontoon. Rivers and lakes could provide no-cost runways ...

Chaplain Thomas M. Bulla

Thomas McNeill Bulla was born in North Carolina on 4 Jan. 1881. Ordained a Presbyterian minister, he was called here to the First Presbyterian Church of Emporia in 1911. In April 1917, he became chaplain of the 116th Infantry Regiment, ...

Site of Fort Brown

One of a chain of posts built

along the Auglaize River by

General William Henry Harrison

in his campaigns against the

British and Indians in the

War of 1812.

Presented to the State of

Ohio in the Sesquicentennial

Year of Statehood. By the

Monument builders of Ohio, Inc.

August 16, ...

Backhaus Estate

Kewaskum, Wisconsin

The Backhaus Family emigrated from Prussia to America in 1850 and purchased this 135-acre farm, parcel by parcel, from 1853-1864. They lived in an unfinished log cabin that has long since been replaced by this Victorian, 3-story cream city ...

Butts Tavern

According to local tradition, the first court meeting for newly formed Greensville County occurred in Butts Tavern two blocks east on 22 Feb. 1781. Built about 1770 at the intersection of Fort Christianna and Halifax Roads for William Edwards, the ...

Robert Hicks

Robert Hicks was born about 1658. By the 1690s he lived at Fort Henry near Petersburg and led traders to the Indians on the southern frontier. About 1709 he moved here to the future site of Hicksford (present-day Emporia) and ...

North Battery

Between 1875 and 1876, the army built this installation for heavy guns, known as the North Battery, to strengthen the military effectiveness of Fort Trumbull. Designed for five cannon aimed toward the water, the battery contained four gun platforms located ...

Boltonville Mill

Boltonville, Wisconsin

Harlow Bolton formed a partnership with Asa Varney and William H. Willis in 1853 to build the mill, along with a mill pond. The mill, known for many years as the Reliance Roller Mills, was the first business in ...