The Millpond

1636

Used for water, fish, power

and skating lay south and west

of this spot. April 19, 1775

British troops dumped captured

cannon shot, musket balls and

barrels of flour into the pond.

The militia later recovered most

of the ammunition and a good part

of the flour from ...

Vanport

Within a year of the US entering World War II, more than 160,000 people moved to Portland — a city of only 360,000 — to work in Home Front industries. Industrialist Henry Kaiser's three shipyards employed the most workers. To ...

Frances Rappaport Horwich

Side A:

Frances Rappaport Horwich was born in Ottawa on July 16, 1907, the daughter of Sam Rappaport, an Austrian immigrant who operated a general store, and Rosa Gratz Rappaport, a Russian immigrant. The youngest of six children, she attended the ...

Landscape Changes

At the time of the Battle, this area was a cleared pasture owned by Samuel Brooks, whose house is on Battle Road before you. In contrast to today’s forested landscape, the 1775 landscape was predominantly open farmland.

A common myth about ...

Passenger Pigeon Monument

Dedicated to the last Wisconsin Passenger Pigeon shot at Babcock, Sept. 1899. This species became extinct through the avarice and the thoughtlessness of man.

Marker can be reached from Long Valley Road ½ mile west of State Park Lane.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Columbus Grove Municipal Pool

The construction of Putnam County's first public swimming pool helped Columbus Grove weather the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Village of Columbus Grove planned the pool to provide much-needed jobs ...

The Prince of the French Explorers

(North Side):The Prince of the French Explorers

Commissioned by Louis XIV of France, the Sieur Robert de LaSalle, sweeping down the Mississippi with his flotilla of canoes, stopped in 1682 at this place, in his quest for the mouth of the ...

Union Camp

The weather was bitterly cold and, as the soldiers of General Smith's division lay tentless and fireless along this ridgeline the night of February 15, 1862, an icy wind made sleep impossible. They occupied trenches that only that morning formed ...

Sentinel Peak

Used as a lookout and for signal fires by the Indians prior to and since 1692 and later by early settlers

Marker is on South Sentinel Peak Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Timothy Murphy

This monument is erected by the

Ancient Order of Hibernians

of Saratoga County

to the memory of

Timothy Murphy

Celebrated marksman of Colonel Morgan’s Rifle Corps whose unerring aim turned the tide of battle by the death of the British ...