Presbyterian Home For Children

Synod Of Alabama

Originally conceived 1864 as a home for children of Confederate dead by Synod in session at Selma.

Opened at Tuskegee 1868 - relocated in Talladega 1891.

A haven for dependent youth of Alabama providing training, education, and worship in a ...

Bustling Shipyards

When the first settlers arrived in the Sheboygan area early in the 1830s, they were awed by the seemingly endless verdant pine forests and stands of hardwood that covered the county. With lake transportation the very lifeblood of the early ...

Missouri Valley Trust Company

Commercial Italianate

Oldest building west of the

Mississippi River to function

continuously as a bank

This property has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Saint Joseph Landmark

Marker is at the intersection of 4th Street and Felix Street, on ...

St. Michael's Prairie / The Lewis and Clark Expedition

St. Michael's Prairie

St. Michael’s Prairie, the site where St. Joseph would be established, was identified on maps at least as early as 1792. French explorers and trappers had been traveling up and down the Missouri River since the early 1700s, ...

Buffalo Soldier Legacy Plaza

Dedicated 23 April 2009

Honoring the stamina, courage, and

tenacity of soldiers assigned to the

9th Cavalry Regiment • 10th Cavalry Regiment • 24th Infantry Regiment • 25th Infantry Regiment • 92nd Infantry Division • 93rd Infantry Division •

372nd Infantry Regiment (NG)

Who ...

Pony Express

The first Pony Express rider to reach San Francisco on the final relay carrying mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to California, arrived in this city Apr. 14, 1860 aboard the River Str. ‘Antelope’. Led by a band and several engine ...

Tohopeka in Flames

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

In this meadow 350 women and children, sheltered in the village of Tohopeka, listened to the sounds of battle drifting back from the barricade 1,000 yards away. Alarmed, they watched as enemy Cherokee and Lower Creek ...

Joseph Robidoux

City Founder

Near this site the French fur trader Joseph Robidoux established a trading post in 1826 while it was still Indian territory. Robidoux and his family oversaw a far-ranging fur trading empire.

The Platte Purchase of 1837 added the six county ...

Cooper’s Tavern

Here stood Cooper’s Tavern,

in which

Jabez Wyman

and

Jason Winship

were killed by the British

April 19, 1775.

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (U.S. 3) and Medford Street, on the right when traveling west on Massachusetts Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Walnut Grove Plantation

Charles and Mary Moore built the Manor House in 1765 1½ miles SE on land granted by George III in 1763. They founded Rocky Spring Academy (1770-1850) the first in Spartanburg County. In a raid in 1780 "Bloody" Bill Cunningham, ...