The Roadside Table

Here on old U.S. 16 in Boston Township, Ionia County, the first picnic table along a highway right-of-way was placed in 1929 through the initiative of Allan Williams, county engineer. The table was built of salvage planks formerly used as ...

Saranac

In 1836, when Saranac was settled, the upper Grand River Valley was a promising but undeveloped area. The soil was fertile; Lake Creek provided water power; and the river was navigable to Grand Rapids. The town grew slowly until 1857, ...

Gibson County Confederate Memorial

Erected to the memory of our Confederate Soldiers by the Russell-Hill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

"Lest We Forget"

Marker is at the intersection of Eaton Street (Tennessee Route 104, 77) and College Street (U.S. 45), on the ...

Smyrna

In 1843 Calvin Smith became the first white settler in the area. N.G. Chase opened a store here the following year. When Dr. Wilbur Fisher, the area's pioneer physician, began operating a rural post office in 1848, he named the ...

Alvah N. Belding Library

Alvah N. Belding erected this library in 1917/18 as a memorial to his parents, Hiram and Mary Wilson Belding. Alvah and his brother Hiram began peddling silk around Belding (then Patterson's Mills) in 1858. With the help of their brother ...

Pere Marquette Railway Depot

Completed in 1923 for the Pere Marquette Railway, this depot is typical of the railroad stations that served Michigan towns during the early decades of the twentieth century. The depot replaced an earlier, wood frame station built during the 1880s ...

Flat Rock Baptist Church

[side A]

One of the oldest Baptist churches in Western North Carolina. It was constituted as Petty's Meeting House on June 10, 1783. The name was changed to Flat Rock Baptist Church in 1802. Under the leadership of William Petty, the ...

Digging Down and Building Up

People, machines, and animals all played a part in the slow process of raising the walls that shaped Fort Knox. But before these walls could be built, people, machines, and animals also worked to prepare the site by earth, blasting ...

George Washington Boulder

George Washington Boulder

On this rock

President George Washington

rested and ate dinner, enroute

from Salisbury to Winston-Salem

May 31, 1791

Erected by

Gen Wm. Davidson Chapter D.A.R.

Lexington N.C.

1926

Marker is on Route 150, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Heart of the Fort

Fort Knox's thick granite walls were designed to deflect cannon fire from ships passing through the Narrows of the Penobscot River. These walls also enclosed a pentagon-shaped center that contained the heart and soul of the fort.

All of the fort's ...