Frank Chance Field 1935-1941

Located at this corner was a 20-acre baseball field named for the legendary Frank Chance. Constructed in 1935, the park served as the spring training grounds for the San Francisco Seals as well as for games played by Fresno's Twilight ...

Woodford County Courthouse

On this courthouse square in 1790 Jesse Graddy built, of logs, first of county's four courthouses. Total cost was $22.50. James and Henry Thompkins completed second one, of stone, 1794. Third hall of justice, built of brick in 1812-13, cupola ...

Rodney F. Reeves 1958 - 1981

Retrieving and Restoring this Buzz Bomb

This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Rodney F. Reeves

1958 - 1981

His love for Milford was shown by his labors in retrieving and restoring this Buzz Bomb to its original place in our community.

Marker ...

Henry Murphy Walsh and Every A.E.F. "Runner"

In Loving Memory Of

First Class Private, "Runner," Company B, 361st Infantry, 91st Division.

Born February 7th, 1893. Killed in battle in the Argonne September 27th, 1918,

and in honor of every "Runner" that lost his life in the service of the A.E.F. ...

Changing the Shape of the Falls

When Europeans first saw the falls, the crest was well below Hennepin Island. Natural erosion caused the line of the falls to move steadily upriver at about four feet a year. By the 1850s, the cataract was approaching the upper ...

Ball’s Battlefield

Major Ball’s Squadron 2nd Light Dragoons U.S. Army while escorting Col. Wells 17th U.S. Infantry from Major General Harrison’s headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stephenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate ...

Church of Christ, Union

Founded 1853 by the Rev. John G. Fee of Bracken County on the invitation of local citizens and Cassius M. Clay, who projected an antislavery community here. Open in full equality to all races and nonsectarian, the church had a ...

Patjens Post Office

In 1899, the Patjens family built this small office adjacent to their store on Church Street, to serve as the post office in Mount Pleasant. The Patjens family served as postmasters until 1917. Patjens Post Office has been owned and ...

Announcement of the Atomic Age

[Niels Bohr]

On this campus, January 26, 1939, Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr reported the splitting of the uranium nucleus with the release of two hundred million electron volts of energy, thus heralding the beginning of the atomic age. This announcement ...

Company K, First Pennsylvania Reserves

(Thirteenth Regiment)

(Center Main Plaque):Company K

First Pennsylvania Reserves

(Thirteenth Regiment)

First (McCandless') Brigade

Third (Crawford's) Division

Fifth (Sykes') Corps

Army of the Potomac

Mustered into Pennsylvania service

June 8, 1861

Mustered into Federal service

July 26, 1861

Mustered Out

June 10, 1864

(Center, Lower Plaque):

This monument was erected in 1991 by the Adams ...