Battle of Long Cane

About four miles southeast is the site of the American Revolutionary Battle of Long Cane. On December 12, 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Allen and a British force of 400-500 men defeated Colonel Elijah Clarke and 100 Americans, an advanced detachment ...

Mendota / Sibley House

[symbol of the Daughters of the American Revolution]

Mendota

In the language of the Sioux means the mouth of a river. Was the earliest

permanent white settlement in southern Minnesota. A pioneer center of the fur trade. Near

here were signed treaties with the ...

The Village of South Gabriel

The South Gabriel Post Office opened in Postmaster Thomas Lewiston's mercantile store on Sept. 29, 1871. The village, named for the South San Gabriel River, was also called Lewiston.

Located on the Austin-Burnet Road, the hamlet soon had two stores, a ...

Crowell Bank

Baxter Springs Historic Walking Tour

The first bank in Baxter Springs was the Bank of Baxter also called the Crowell Bank. It was established in 1870 and did business in this building. H. R. Crowell, the founder, was the second mayor ...

William "Billy" Strayhorn

(1915-1967)

Jazz composer and arranger. Collaborator with Duke Ellington. Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A Train" became the Ellington orchestra's theme song. A graduate of Westinghouse High School, Strayhorn had his musical talents nurtured here.

Marker is on North Murtland Street 0 miles ...

Darby Plantation

The old Marietta Rd. joined the Sandtown Rd. here -- 1864.

June 17-19. Geary’s (2d) Div., 20th A.C., supporting 13th N.Y. & Pa. E batteries, were N. of rd. & Cox’s (3d) Div. 23d. A.C., supporting 1st Ohio Bat. D. [US] ...

The Orphan Brigade

At Bear Creek Station (Hampton), on Sept. 4, 1864, Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Lewis famous “Orphan Brigade” (2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th Kentucky Infantry) was relieved from assignment to Bate’s division, Hardee’s corps. Army of Tennessee [CS], in which ...

Battle of Lake George

Sept. 8, 1755

Right of Monument:

Defeat would have

opened the road to

Albany to the French

Back of Monument:

1903

The Society of Colonial Wars

erected this monument to commemorate

the victory of the colonial forces

under General William ...

National Tube Works

Incorporated 1869, the works began production here, 1872. By 1901, when it became a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, this was the world's largest pipe producer. Major advances in inspection techniques originated here. Plant operations ceased in 1987.

Marker is on Lysle ...

Brotherhood of Ferndocs

Brotherhood of

Ferndocs

1970

Vietnam Veterans

Lest We Forget

Andersen Martin W. Major

Deangelis Richard N. P.F.C.

Davis Blakely Jr. U.S.M.C.

Dorsey Edward R. P.O. 3rd Cl.

Fecteau Gene E. P.F.C.

Fenton William C. Jr. Spec. 4

Gagne Renald L. P.F.C.

Johnson Richard A. J. U.S.M.C. P.F.C.

Keller Timothy W. Spec. 4

Miglierina Robert ...