Fort Blair West Breastworks

The west wall of the breastworks had been removed the day before the attack in order to enlarge the encampment to make room for more than 100 additional cavalry troops which had arrived under the command of Lt. Pond.

Marker can ...

War of 1812 Memorial

[First Tablet, Lower Tablet Facing East]:

War of 1812 Memorial

Dedicated on Aug. 5, 2006

Original monument was dedicated

In 1908 at W. Jefferson Ave.

Near Gibraltar Road by

Dr. Hal C. Wyman

Moved in 1958-1959 to

Parsons School in ...

The History of Franklin Court

In this yard, now known as Franklin Court, formerly stood the home of Benjamin Franklin. In his later years, Franklin also built three Market Street houses and a Print Shop for his printer-publisher grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache.

Franklin first saw ...

Union Pacific Depot

The Union Pacific Depot was built in 1886 and given to the community or Cheyenne in April 1993 by the Union Pacific Railroad Company.

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Fort Blair Blockhouse

This is a replication of the blockhouse which records tell us was in the center of the encampment. The original blockhouse measured 16 feet square and was constructed of logs. It was built to store equipment and supplies. Reports indicate ...

Franklin Court

I am got into my niche, after being kept out of it 24 years by foreign employments. 'Tis a very good house that I built so very long ago to retire into . . . .

Signature - Benj Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 - 1790)

Printer, author, inventor, diplomat, philanthropist statesman, and scientist. The eighteenth century's most illustrious Pennsylvanian built a house in Franklin Court starting in 1763, and here he lived the last five years of his life.

Marker is on ...

Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations

Formed nearby in 1827 as the first central labor council in the nation; recognized as the beginning of American labor movement. Represented workers as a class, not by craft. Advocated for ten-hour day; engaged in political activism and workers' education.

The First Home

The first house at what was then known as the "Forks of the Kalamazoo" was erected near this site by Tenney Peabody, a New Yorker. To this cabin with its thatched roof of grass from the banks of the nearby ...

The Battle of Second River

In commemoration

of

The Battle of Second River

September 1777,

Dedicated by

The State Camp of New Jersey

Patriotic Order

Sons of America

September 1932

Marker is at the intersection of Mill Street and Park Drive, on the right when traveling west on Mill Street.

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