Deep Roots in the Earth

The most important part of a living prairie is something you can't see without taking a shovel in hand. The dense, interlocking roots of prairie grasses make an underground structure unlike anything seen in the woodlands of the East. The ...

Kemper Hall

Kemper Hall, boarding school for girls, dates to 1855 when St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and some dedicated Kenosha citizens signed a charter launching the Kenosha Female Seminary. In 1865, the school moved to this site, the home of U.S. Senator ...

Pony Express River Streamer “New World”

[Front of Marker]

Dedicated April 3, 1997

RIO VISTA

by

James Stretesky

The Dutra Group

Barrier Systems, Inc.

Rio Vista Chamber of Commerce

Pony Express Trail Association

Sponsors are listed on bottom of base

[Back of Marker]

In 1860 – 1861 Rio Vista was located 17 miles north of here. The ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp P-56, Company 1367

On this site in July 1933, CCC Camp P~56 Company 1367, opened with an enrollment of 192 Virginia men. The camp, which was organized as one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal employment programs, consisted of 52 small barracks, ...

Eagle Point Bell

This bell was salvaged from a logging train used in Woodmere, a sawmill town south of Venice, on what is now Rt. 776. The abundant stand of pine trees in that area was dying from having been "bled" of their ...

Church of the Good Shepard

Beginning in 1883 with services held in nearby private homes by Trinity Church, this Episcopal church then constructed a building on Barnwell Street, was organized into a mission, and became a separate parish in 1886. Rt. Rev. Albert S. Thomas, ...

DeSantis Pavilion

Presented by

Magdalina B. and Blaine J. DeSantis '75

In Honor of

Joseph E. DeSantis

1922-2001

A True Gentleman in the Classic Sense of the Word

Born in Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Emigrated to United States in 1929

Rose from Humble Beginnings to Become

A Prominent Attorney and Business Leader ...

Dodge County Memorial Park

This park is dedicated to the men and women

of the county who served their country in time

of war; it replaces six miles of memorial elms

which were relinquished for this highway.

[Seal of the American Legion Auxiliary]

The trees were planted by ...

Joseph Smith

The founder of Mormonism lived in this vicinity about 1825-29. His infant son is buried in this cemetery. Much of the translation of the Golden Plates for the Book of Mormon was done at a house nearby.

Marker is on Pennsylvania ...

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church / Lowther's Hill Cemetery

Marker Front:

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, organized by 1785, first met in a nearby school. It built a sanctuary here in 1791; that year Cashaway Baptist Church merged with it. In 1818 the congregation moved about 2 mi. ...