Skinquarter Baptist Church

Pastor William Hickman and about 30 people founded Skinquarter Baptist Church in 1778. The first meetinghouse was located east of the church's cemetery. Hickman moved to Kentucky in 1784 and was an early Baptist leader there. Due to anti-missionary sentiment ...

Central Public Library

Mount Vernon Square

This majestic building was opened in 1903 as the Central Public Library, popularly known as the Carnegie Library because Andrew Carnegie donated funds to build it. From the start Central was open to all. Mary Church Terrell ...

Bartholomew County Courthouse

[Side 'One']

County formed by Indiana General Assembly 1821. Thirty acres of land were purchased, and John Tipton donated thirty acres, for county seat. State commissioners named county seat Tiptona--after Tipton; local elected commissioners renamed it Columbus. Tipton served as state ...

Butcher Shop and Boarding House

Factory officials believed a ready supply of meat for the community was "decidedly advantageous to the interests of the armory." As a result, the armory permitted local businessman Philip Coons to erect a large butcher shop and smoke-house, as well ...

Vanderburgh County World War I Honor Roll

Service Star Legion War Mothers

Gresham Chapter

Erected this marker in 1926

in memory of Vanderburgh Co.

Boys who gave their lives

in the service of the

• • 1917 • • • World War • • • 1918 • •

[ Row ...

Gibson County World Wars I and II Honor Roll

[[ Center Panel ]]

Erected by the Service Mother

[ Across Both Side Panels ]

In Commemoration of the Valor and

Sacrifice of our Heroes in World Wars I and II

[[ Left Panel ]]

[ Row One ]

Charles T. Alvis • Daniel Armstrong • ...

Captain Benjamin F. Eddins

Born in South Carolina in 1813, Benjamin Farrar Eddins raised and led a company of volunteers that served in the 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment.

Retired due to ill health, he returned to lead the Home Guards, a militia made up of ...

Shenandoah Street about 1880

(Photo of the buildings along Shenandoah Street about 1880)

Marker is on Shenandoah Street (Business U.S. 340), on the right when traveling east.

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The Palmtag Building

This building replaces the two-story Palmtag Building, originally constructed by Leopold Palmtag in 1892. He settled in Hayward in 1860 and served as a town trustee. The building housed various businesses, including a radio station and a drug store.

The original ...

Tom Robinson House

Home of

Quaker Tom Robinson

and his descendants

since 1759.

Headquarters of

Vicomte de Noailles, 1780-81

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Street and Poplar Street, on the right when traveling south on Washington Street.

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