The Most Reverend Emmet Michael Walsh

Sixth Bishop of Charleston, S.C.

Born in Beaufort South Carolina

March 6, 1892

Consecrated Bishop of Charleston

September 8, 1927

Installed as Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio

November 9, 1949

Died in Youngstown, Ohio

March 16, 1968

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Power from the Wind

Sustainable Solutions: Residential Wind Turbines

You are looking at a Windspire, a vertical-axis wind turbine that generates electricity from wind power. This model produces about 2,000 kWh of electricity a year in an area with average wind speeds of 12 ...

Power from the Wind

Sustainable Solutions: Residential Wind Turbines

You are looking at a Windspire, a vertical-axis wind turbine that generates electricity from wind power. This model produces about 2,000 kWh of electricity a year in an area with average wind speeds of 12 mph ...

The Old Chisholm Trail

This post commemorates and marks the first terminus of the old Chisholm Cattle Trail, which extended from Brownsville, Texas, some 1,000 miles to the south. This post is identical to 400 Trail posts placed across Oklahoma (Indian Territory) by Bob ...

Formal Southern Landscapes

Like Madison's high-style architecture, its formal landscapes were Southern translations of both prevalent trends and earlier traditions. Boxwood gardens were an antebellum landscape feature gracing many Madison homes. Parterres were a garden form developed in Renaissance France and originally inspired ...

The Grand Army of the Republic

Dedicated

May 7-1941

in memory of

Our Fathers

The Grand Army

of the Republic

1861-65

Marker is on North Pine Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Mt. Olive Lutheran Church

Founded in 1888 by Dr. Conrad B. Gohdes

Last of the Lutheran horseback circuit rides, who was known as a dynamic pastor, theologian, professor of history, philologist and a Christian gentleman. Died 1952 A.D.

Marker is on South Fork Road (County Route ...

The Mount Vernon Dredge

In its first five years, Alder Gulch produced between 30 and 60 million in gold. By 1874 about 35,000 people lived in the gulch. Times ran out but the gold never did. You can still find it here in the ...

Why is the Washington Monument Temporarily Closed?

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia sent tremors throughout eastern North America. This seismic activity affected a number of Washington, D.C. landmarks, including the Washington Monument. National Park Service engineers and experts in historic ...

Caldwell and the Chisholm Trail

A mile southeast of this marker the Chisholm Trail entered Kansas. It took its name from Jesse Chisholm, Indian trader, whose route lay between the North Canadian river and present Wichita. In 1867 it was extended from the Red river ...