Sheriff's Residence and Jail

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Vanderburgh County formed, Evansville named county seat 1818. This castle-like structure was completed 1890 for county’s fourth jail and second sheriff’s residence. Stone exterior has step-gables, projecting turrets, crenellated roof lines, simulated portcullis, and central, rounded tower. Tunnel ...

57th Illinois Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

57th Illinois Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was in reserve here from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 6, 1862. It then moved to the left and was engaged ...

The Prince of the French Explorers

(North Side):The Prince of the French Explorers

Commissioned by Louis XIV of France, the Sieur Robert de LaSalle, sweeping down the Mississippi with his flotilla of canoes, stopped in 1682 at this place, in his quest for the mouth of the ...

Lewis & Clark at Old Fort Jefferson

Long before Lewis and Clark stopped near Wickliffe in western Kentucky on their outbound trip to the west, Fort Jefferson had been built in 1780-81 by George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War as an outpost against British-led Indian attacks. ...

8th Iowa Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

8th Iowa Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment held this position, supporting Stone's battery, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. April 6, 1862 and then moved to left and front ...

Abandoned Shoreline of Lake Michigan

This ridge is an ancient beach or sand bar of Lake Michigan whose waters reached this point 8,000 years ago when the lake level was 20 feet higher than now. Clark Street runs north atop this ridge. The park ponds ...

Gen. Alexander Archer Vandegrift

Gen. Alexander Archer Vandegrift was born in Charlottesville on 13 Mar. 1887. He entered the U.S. Marine Corps in 1909 and served

on posts in the Caribbean, Central America,

China, and the United States. General

Vandegrift led American forces in their first successful ...

Tehan Family

William born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1845. Ellen Fallon Tehan, daughter of Ellen and Jeremiah Fallon, was a year old when she came west by covered wagon from St. Joseph, Mo., in 1846. William and Ellen’s marriage was the first in ...

Pioneering Murphy Family

Charting a course of their own to become founders of Santa Clara Valley

In 1844, Martin Murphy Sr. brought his large, Irish family across the continent in the Stephens-Murphy-Townsend overland part. Their determination, optimism and close family bonds helped them cross ...

Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Fort Jefferson

(North Side):Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Fort Jefferson

Lewis and Clark and a party of eight men visited the site of Fort Jefferson on Nov. 18, 1803, while on their epic 1803-1806 journey to the Pacific. Fort est. in 1780 by ...