The Zetterström Fountain

Vasa Museum

Text in Swedish:

Zetterström-Fontänen

Mustycke som användes för att spola tunnlar

under Vasa vid bargningen 1961.

Konstructör: Dykarpionjären Arne Zetterstöm (1917-1945)

Donatorer: Flygt AB och Marinen

Text in English:

The Zetterström Fountain

Nozzle used for making tunnels under the warship Vasa

when it was salvaged in ...

Cunningham Memorial Park

In 1798, on a nearby site, the first gristmill in this area was built by Valentine and Margaret Cunningham. Later another gristmill was established here. Soon a community was established. The town, first known as Pine Grove, was incorporated as ...

Site of First Quaker Meeting House

Quaker Meeting House Town of Wheatland Frame Building 1827 used until 1854 by Hicksites

Marker is on Quaker Road 0.3 miles east of Bowerman Road (County Road 716), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. Matthew’s Church

Erected in 1873

Oldest original church building in Kenosha

Marker is at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 59th Place, on the right when traveling north on 7th Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Church in Kenosha

Was built ten yards west of this site by the Society of Methodists in 1840

Marker is at the intersection of 6th Avenue and 59th Street, on the right when traveling north on 6th Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Warriors

Their Natural Weapons

The bow and arrow was the most natural weapon for the Plains Indian, the tool best suited for hunting buffalo. It was the first plaything given to him as a child. He began to practice before he was ...

The Chippewa Bay Area

Historic New York

This area was settled early in the 1800's by immigrants from Scotland. They were encouraged to come here by agents of George Parish, a large landholder in the North Country. These conscientious farmers and tradesmen came up ...

Buford Pusser Memorial Park

"In Memory of a Man Who Walked Tall"

Personal History

Buford Hayes Pusser was born near Finger, Tennessee on December 12, 1937. His early education consisted of elementary schools in this area and graduation from Adamsville High School in 1956. About a ...

The Seashore Trolley Museum

The founding of the Seashore Trolley Museum on this site in July, 1939, established the private railway preservation movement in the United States. Six young men under the subsequent 50 year leadership of Theodore F. Santarelli de Brasch acquired a ...

Their Fame Liveth

Canada Remembers

Lieutenant Samuel Hooker,

Sergeant Joseph Hunt, Pri-

vates James Daig, Thomas

Fearnsides, Richard Hugill,

George Longley, Laurence

Meade, John Pegler, John Smith,

and John Wale of the First

Battalion of the Eighth

(King's) Regiment of Foot; and

Sergeant ...