Milwaukee Fire Department Engine House #15

Historic Third Ward Walking Tour Site 36

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

Designed by

Charles E. Malig

Tour Site 36

1915

Marker is at the intersection of Water Street and Erie Street, on ...

Pillow Lace

1630 - 1930

From the date of its settlement by John Winthrop and twelve associates, 1630, Agawam (Ipswich) was the seat of pillow lace making, by 1790 the annual production was 41,979 yards. This craft continued until the introduction of lace ...

Camp of 1st Battalion, 4th Illinois Cavalry

McClernand's Division

U.S.

Camp of

1st Battalion,

4th Illinois Cavalry,

McClernand's (1st) Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Cavalry Road 0.4 miles west of Hamburg-Savannah Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

New Providence Church

This Presbyterian church was founded in 1786 by Rev. Archibald Scott, of Virginia. In 1792, Rev. Gideon Blackburn built a log church here; the stones in the present wall are from a church which replaced it in 1829; the brick ...

Ann Peacock House

Built c. 1760

The front portion of this fine example of

the Charleston single house was built on

part of the original lot #37 of the plat

of Charleston known as the "Grand Modell."

The home was erected by Wm. ...

Welcome to Fort Boykin Historic Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Fort Boykin was named after Francis Marshall Boykin who was a Virginia state senator, general in the state militia and owner of the property on which the fort was built. The topography at Fort ...

Jamaica Estates - A Residential Park

IN 1907, real estate developers Ernestus Guilick and Felix Isman purchased 500 acres of land north of the Colonial Village of Jamaica, here they established the Jamaica Estates Corporation. Their purpose was to erect an affluent resort with an English ...

Prairie Mission

A United Presbyterian Mission

Prairie Mission was established in 1894 by the Freedmen’s Board of the United Presbyterian Church of North America to educate the children of ex-slaves. The Mission consisted of a church, school building, dormitories for male and female ...

Postal Routes of 1820

Two miles north of this point was the intersection of two important postal routes of early Alabama, the Saint Stephens-Cahawba Road and the Tuskaloosa-Prairie Bluff Road.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 28 and State Highway 162, on the ...

Adam Empie, D.D.

First chaplain of U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1813-1817; president William and Mary College; rector St. James Church. Grave ¾ mi. N.E.

Marker is on North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles north of Dock Street, on the right when traveling ...