Peapack Brook Rural Industrial Historic District

The confluence of Peapack Brook and the North Branch of the Raritan River became a rural industrial center during the 18th century when a saw mill, grist mill, tannery and bark mill were located nearby. The Peapack Brook Rural Industrial ...

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site is a premier example of the Prairie style of landscape architecture. Alfred Caldwell, a landscape designer, architect, teacher and poet, transformed an old Victorian lily pool in Lincoln Park into a “sanctuary of ...

Tecumseh / Shawnee Prophet's Town

Side A: Tecumseh

One of the most influential Native Americans of the 19th century, Tecumseh was born in 1768 in the Pickaway settlements on the Mad River and raised by older siblings at Old Town. A prominent Shawnee war leader who ...

Lincoln Photograph

Abraham Lincoln had just won an acquittal for his client William Duff Armstrong in what is now known as the celebrated Almanac Trial of May 7, 1858. At the conclusion of the trial, held on the second floor of the ...

Downtown Develops

As Hastings quickly grew and settlement in the area increased, this port city soon became the commercial center for Dakota County farmers.

Farmers brought wagons full of crops to the Hastings market, and then returned home driving wagons full of goods ...

“Rites of Spring”

Milton Horn (1906-1995)

This terra-cotta work of art by Milton Horn depicts a ram and an image of Pan, who in Greek mythology was the god of fields, forests, wild animals flock and shepherds. The sculpture is one of two identical ...

Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity

The first meeting of the

Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity

was held in this building

then the home of Simon Fogarty

on December 10, 1904.

Founded by

Simon Fogarty

Andrew A. Krogg

L. Harry Mixson

All natives of Charleston

and at ...

Osprey School

[Front side of Marker]

The Osprey School served the Osprey and Vamo communities from 1927 through June 1976. It was one of four boom-time schools which were designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliot and built along the Tamiami Trail ...

Jekyll Island Boat House Site , Shipshape for the Season

(Left text)

There is very little photo documentation of

exactly what the Boathouse looked like during

the Club era. Club members rarely would have

been found in this area, It was typically used

by year-round employees.

The only visible evidence of the ...

Deep Creek

Sept. 2, 1805 Lewis and Clark proceeded with much difficulty up the North Fork, they camped on the west side of the river in this vicinity. Clark wrote "...we were obliged to cut a road, over rocky hill Slides where ...