Fort Holmes

Here in 1812, on the island's highest point, a blockhouse and stockade were built by the British and named Fort George. It was the bulwark of British defenses in 1814 when the American attack was repulsed. After the war the ...

Little Traverse Bay

For centuries this region has been the home of Ottawa Indians, whose warriors and orators fought bravely to retain their land. Around 1700 a mission was built by French Jesuits at the famous L'Arbre Croche villages which stretched from Cross ...

The Island / The Flamingo Club

(side one)

The Island

The Island, once accessible only by footbridges, was the center of life at Idlewild from the 1910s into the 1960s. Early advertisements for the resort described Island Park as having a beautiful bathing beach and a ...

Cypress-Davis Methodist Episcopal Church

Named for Cypress Creek and at other times called Davis for the pioneer Davis family, ancestors of the Emerson family of Somerville, this church stood in the Center Point community on land owned now (1996) by James H. Shelton, great-great-grandson ...

Saint Peter's Catholic Church

In the early 1850's, settlers from Rhine, Bavaria, Bohemia, and Luxembourg came to this part of Wisconsin now known as Tilden Township. They vowed to build a church in honor of the "Blessed Virgin Mother of God" giving thanks for ...

St. Johns River and Lake Monroe

Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe in the middle basin of the St. Johns River. The river rises in the marshes of Indian River County and flows slowly north 310 miles to Jacksonville and the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Civil War and Edwin Libby Post No. 16, G.A.R. Memorial

To the memory of those men who claiming Rockland

by birth or by adoption as their home

served in the Army & Navy of the United States

War of 1861-1865

Here stood for many years the home of

Edwin Libby Post No. 16

Grand Army of ...

Palmyra Confederate Monument

Erected to the memory of

Capt. Thomas A. Sidenor

Willis T. Baker

Thomas Humston

Morgan Bixler

John Y. Mc Pheeters

Hiram T. Smith

Herbert Hudson

John M. Wade

Francis M. Lear

Eleazer Lake

Marker is on South Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Palmyra

Side A:

Palmyra, founded in 1819, was for many years the northernmost town on the Salt River Trail from St. Charles to the Des Moines River. A Federal Land Office for the Salt River area located here, 1824 – 58, led ...

Palmyra Massacre

A State Divided

The Palmyra Massacre

The Palmyra Massacre was a grim ending to Confederate Col. Joseph Porter's 1862 recruiting campaign in northeast Missouri. Besides recruiting local men for the Confederate army, Porter attacked Union outposts and patrols all summer long. In ...