Confederate Lines

The earthworks nearby are remains of the 1861 fortifications built to defend Mount Pleasant. They extended east 2.5 miles from Butler’s Creek at Boone Hall Plantation to Fort Palmetto on Hamlin Sound. Supporting this line were Battery Gary and those ...

Half Way Brook

Fort Amherst

So called because midway between Forts Edward and

William Henry. From 1755 to 1780 it was the scene of many bloody skirmishes, surprises, and ambushes. Here the French and Indians inflicted two horrible massacres upon the English and ...

Site of the Haymarket Tragedy

(plaque 1)

On the evening of May 4th, 1886, a tragedy of international significance unfolded on this site in Chicago’s Haymarket produce district. An outdoor meeting had been hastily organized by anarchist activists to protest the violent death of workers during ...

Meigs County Fairgrounds

Situated in an agriculturally rich area, county fairs have long been a significant tradition and event in Meigs County. The Meigs County Agricultural Society held its first fair on October 22, 1851, in Middleport and its second at the Rock-Spring ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In a log cabin which stood here, Frances Eliza Hodgson, newly from England with her family, spent the winter of 1865. She helped support her family with music lessons, also opened a "Select Seminary for Young People." Here she met ...

Madonna of the Trail

(East Face) N.S.D.A.R. Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days.

(North Face) This the first military road in America beginning at Rock Creek and Potomac River, Georgetown, Maryland, leading our pioneers across this continent to the Pacific.

"Little Lord Fauntleroy"

The author of this book, probably the most famous of her several works, spent her first winter in the United States in a small house which stood about 250 yards south. Besides this juvenile work, she was the author of ...

Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam

Chicago Landmark

On this site stood the Sauganash Hotel, built in 1831 by pioneer Mark Beaubien, which was location of the frontier town’s first village board election in 1833. The Wigwam, an assembly hall built in 1860 (destroyed c. 1867) on ...

Five Mile Run

In French and Indian War

this run was avoided

because of fear of attack

by hidden Indians. Name

changed to Meadow Run 1808.

Marker is on Lake George Road (U.S. 9), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Post Office

Near this site in 1833, the log store of John S.C. Hogan, was this section’s only post office, serving settler from miles around. Eastern mail was delivered once a week from Niles, Michigan.

Erected by

Chicago’s Charter Jubilee

Authenticated by Chicago Historical Society

1937

City ...