Commanding Officer's Quarters

Fort Clark was established as a U.S. Army garrison in June 1852. Nine structures designed by U.S. Army engineers were built in 1873-1874 to house the fort's officers. This house served the fort's commanding officers, including Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie ...

Confederate Navy Yard, Saffold

At Saffold, “accessible by steamboats from all points on the river”, David S. Johnston operated the Southern Confederate States Navy Yard. Here the gunboat Chattahoochee was built under contract signed October 19, 1861. Lt. Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN, formerly ...

Confederate Field Hospital

Battle of Mill Springs

This is the site of the Confederate Hospital used by Confederate surgeons after the Battle of Mill Springs. The site is being preserved with the help of a Federal grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, ...

Elgin Milk Condensing Company

Gail Borden, pioneer in the food preservative industry, established a milk condensing plant on this site in 1865. His discovery incorporated a process by which water was evaporated from milk, and sugar added as a preservative. This process, patented in ...

Elgin National Watch Company

From 1866 to 1966 this site was occupied by the Elgin National Watch Company. This was the first watch factory built west of the Alleghenies and grew to become the world's largest. During its lifetime over 60 million 'Elgin' watches ...

Elgin Road Races

This marker is along the “south leg” of the Elgin road races. Beginning in 1910, many leading drivers and mechanics competed here in grueling tests of speed and endurance that contributed to the development of the modern automobile.

Manufacturers were attracted ...

Burial Site of Josette Beaubien

Josette Beaubien, a survivor of the Fort Dearborn Massacre, was buried here in 1845. She was married to Jean Baptiste Beaubien, one of Chicago's first settlers. Her brother was Claude LaFramboise, a chief of the Potawatomi Indians. Chief Alexander Robinson ...

Alexander Robinson

(Chee Chee Pin Quay)

Chief of the Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians

Who died April 22, 1872

Catherine (Chevalier) his wife

who died August 7, 1860

and other members of their family

are buried on this spot -

Part of the Reservation granted him

By the Treaty of ...

Minnehaha Grange Hall

[west side]

Minnehaha Grange No. 398 was organized on December 12, 1873. Its members came from Edina Mills, Richfield Mills, St. Louis Park and the surrounding area.

At first, the Grange met in the homes of its members. Then in the ...

Founding of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity

On April 28, 1867, the National Women's Fraternity Movement began here in the home of Jacob Holt. In a second floor bedroom, shared by Ada Bruen and Libbie Brook, twelve Monmouth College co-eds founded I.C. Sorosis, known today by its ...