“Liver Eating” Johnson

John Garrison, later known as John Johnston, born here c. 1830. Killed many of the Crow Tribe, slayers of his Indian wife. Robert Redford movie “Jeremiah Johnson” popularized his life.

Marker is at the intersection of Bloomsbury Road (County Route 579 ...

Death Valley Scotty

Native of Cynthiana. Walter E. Scott (Death Valley Scotty), gold prospector, whose fabulous tales of Death Valley, Calif., lost gold mines fooled investors. Stories supported by $3,000,000 castle in desert provided by millionaire of Chicago, who "got it all back ...

The Death of Marshal Suverkrubbe

About 3 a.m. on December 5, 1932, Fort Calhoun marshal Albert Suverkrubbe was shot while trying to apprehend two men fleeing Kruse's Red and White Grocery at 106 S. Fourteenth Street. Suverkrubbe died from his wounds nine days later, leaving ...

445th Combat Group H

1943 - 1945

2nd Combat Wing

2nd Air Division

Tibenham

England

8th Air Force

Dedicated May 8, 1984

Courtesy hmdb.org

Recreational Pursuits

Trout fishing was the chief pastime at the camp. Other diversions were horseback riding, horseshoe pitching, hiking and working puzzles. Above, is the recreation area adjacent to Town Hall. Below, Richey and Boone work on a jig-saw puzzle.

Marker can be ...

The Carlisle Theatre

Walking Tour Stop 13

The Carlisle Theatre, originally called The Comerford, opened its doors in May of 1939. It was by far the grandest of three movie “palaces” all within a block of one another and was the first centrally air ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Not So "Lucky" Swedes

The Lucky Swede and Pearson Mining Companies used this siding to bring in mining equipment and hopefully, send out copper ore…

According to old-timer Harold Theriault,

“The lucky Swede Mine was a fairly large company, but only on paper. It had a ...

Richmond Battlefields

Parker's Battery Trail

McClellan’s Federals attacked in 1862, then Grant in ’64, while Joseph E. Johnston and then Robert E. Lee defended. The two major assaults on the Confederate capital fanned out in a series of battles, skirmishers and marches.

Tour the ...

Battle of Boundbrook

[Front of monument]:

This stone marks the site of the Battle of Boundbrook, fought April 13, 1777, between 500 American soldiers under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln and 4,000 British troops under Lord Cornwallis.

[Back of monument]:

Boundbrook Battle Monument

Marker is on E High Street, ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Busy Bogle Spur

A logging railroad known as Bogle Spur snaked from here up the North Fork of the St. Joe River for seven miles. The spur was built to salvage timber killed during the 1910 fires. The little railroad operated from 1912 ...