Dogtown - Fish Hatchery School

District No. 9

Originally at the NW corner of Fish Hatchery and Lacy Roads, the Dogtown School was later relocated ½ mile north and called the Fish Hatchery School. The Gorman Family relocated and restored the one room schoolhouse on this ...

Civil War Action at Vienna

On June 17, 1861, at this bend in the railroad, a Union train carrying 271 men of the 1st Ohio Volunteers was ambushed by nearly 700 South Carolina infantry and cavalry. Amid artillery fire, the Ohioans jumped from the platform ...

Lincoln at Kalamazoo

?On August 27, 1856, here in this park, Abraham Lincoln, then an obscure lawyer, spoke to a rally for John Frémont, the Republican presidential nominee. This was the only time that Lincoln addressed an audience in Michigan. The event was ...

The National Farmers Memorial

This Memorial is dedicated to the American Farmer past, present and future

To the Farmers of America

Because of the sacrifices that you have made

Because of the hardships that you have endured

Because of your determination to succeed

Watt Car and Wheel Company

Joseph Watt and son James H. started a small foundry in 1862 making plow points, window sash weights, and heating stoves. Later, brothers Stewart, Ross, and John W. joined and the name became J.H. Watt and Brothers. Securing a patent ...

Battle of Perryville

October 8, 1862

(left panel)

The battle was brought on by Confederate Lieut. Gen. Braxton Bragg as a delaying action to insure safe withdrawal of a huge wagon train of supplies and to enable him to effect a junction with the army ...

Osage Catholic Mission

The mission was founded in 1847 for Osage Indians living along the Neosho and Verdigris rivers. A manual labor school for boys was established by the Jesuits and a department for girls by the Sisters of Loretto. Highest recorded enrollment ...

Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery.

4 - 12 pdr. Napoleons.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Walker's Division, Hardee's Corps.

1st Lieut. R. T. Beauregard, Commanding.

1st Lieut. M. D. Calhoun.

2d Lieut. J. A. Aulston.

Nov. 25th, 1863.

The battery came into position on the crest of ...

Hatch Bros. General Store

1945-1980

In 1945, Reed & Burt Hatch, brothers & partners, purchased this building from the A.Z. Palmer Family, as they had outgrown the building where they operated a thriving general store. After some renovation, the building was renamed "Hatch Bros. General ...

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Who Were the Creek?

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

The park offers activities designed to commemorate the events that occurred here on March 27, 1814. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend ended the Creek Indian War and added nearly 23 million acres of ...