Robert T. Secrest

Congressman and Senator

50 years of public service to our great country and all its citizens.

This tribute is presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliaries of District Five of Ohio, August 5, 1978

Marker is on Wheeling Street (U.S. ...

Burke School

The community of Burke was established along the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad in 1882. S.J. and Nancy Arrington conveyed one acre of land adjoining the town on which to establish a public school. The first building, a one-room ...

Abraham Lincoln

Marking Old Lower Landing where in 1828 – age 19 – Abraham Lincoln with Allen Gentry made his first flatboat trip to New Orleans. He saw slaves sold and said. “If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, ...

Blackburn / Wesner Bridge

This covered bridge once spanned Brannon's Fork near Young Hickory in Muskingum County. The bridge was dismantled in the 1960's because land surrounding it was to be strip mined.

Arthur Wesner purchased the bridge in 1967 and reassembled it on ...

Korean War Contemplative Bench

“The beginning of the end of war lies in remembrance.”Herman Wouk

In sacred memory of those Americans who gave their lives during the Korean War, 1950 - 1953.

54,246 Died. 8,177 Missing in Action.

389 Unaccounted for P.O.W.

First International Tribute, July 27, ...

Baxter Springs Massacre

On October 6, 1863, Gen. James Blunt and about 100 men were met near Baxter’s springs by William Quantrill and several hundred Confederates masquerading as Union troops. As Blunt’s band was preparing a musical salute the enemy fired. This surprise ...

These Cannon Were Abandoned

These cannon

were abandoned

at

Fort Independence

(Castle William)

by the

British forces

when they evacuated

the

City of Boston

March 17, 1776

Marker is on Garden Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Daniel Boone - Pioneer / Grave of Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone - Pioneer

Born, Pa., 1734. Died, Mo., 1820. Married Rebecca Boone, 1756, N.C. First trip to Kentucky, 1767. Set up Ft. Boonesborough, 1775, blazed Wilderness Trail and settled. Frontiersman, surveyor, settler, legislator and sheriff. Defender against Indians and British. ...

Black Dog Trail

Commemorating

Opened in 1803 by Chief Black Dog (Manka-Chonka) and his band of Osage Indians who had a village nearby where springs once flowed freely.

Marker is at the intersection of East Avenue and 7th Street, on the left when traveling south ...

Lt. Presley N. O'Bannon, USMC

First American to raise U.S. flag on foreign soil at Battle of Derne on shores of Tripoli, April 27, 1805. Led attack that overcame Barbary Coast pirates who were holding 180 American seamen for ransom. O'Bannon came to Logan County ...