Rock Spring Park

Named for natural springs reputedly used by George Washington. Donated in 1857 for picnics and prize fights. Developed in 1897 as amusement park served by streetcar and boat attracting 15-20 thousand daily. Included dance pavilions, shooting gallerys, bowling, theatre and ...

U.S. Infantry Trench

July 23, 1814

This Monument erected July 25, 1991

by the American Legion, Niagara

County Committee & Dept. of New York

In memory of the U.S. Officers &

Soldiers who died at the Battle

of Lundy's Lane

Connecticut 25th; New York 23rd;

Massachusetts 9th & 21st;

Pennsylvania 22nd & ...

Laura Secord

[Front Side of the Monument]:

To perpetuate

the name and fame of

Laura Secord

who walked alone nearly 20

miles by a circuitous difficult

and perilous route, through woods

and swamps and over miry roads

to warn a British outpost at

DeCew’s Falls of an intended attack

and thereby enabled ...

Civic Stability

Deadwood erected two monuments to order and permanence in the early 1900s. The federal building open in 1907, and activities in the county courthouse started the next year.

In its early gold rush days, Deadwood had been a wild, raucous mining ...

Chinese Immigrants

Chinese Immigrants came to Deadwood to make their fortune. After burial in Mt. Moriah, with appropriate ceremonies, the remains were removed for reburial in their home village in China. Not more than two bodies remain in the Chinese Section.

Marker can ...

The Presidential District

History Link: A Trail to Deadwood’s Past

As South Deadwood expanded along Sherman Street in early 1876, log cabins and small frame houses appeared on the hillsides above the mining camp. A cemetery was quickly established on a hill deemed too ...

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

I I I    I ...

Church of the Incarnation

Protestant Episcopal

Incorporated in 1871.church was admitted into union. Heirs of John Bach donated the present site. In 1872, the Rev. Herman Cope Duncan, missionary to the area, made first rector.

Marker is on Olive Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jackson City Hall

Built 1846-47 by slave labor, of handmade brick. Original cost $7505.58. John Oldham, Mayor, Will Gibbon Arch. Used as hospital for both Union and Confederate soldiers during war between the states. This building was spared when the town, having been ...

Ace Records

Ace Records, founded in 1955 by Johnny Vincent (1925-2000), was the most successful Mississippi-based label of the 1950s and 1960s. Ace’s extensive catalog of blues, R&B, pop, rock, and soul included records by Mississippi blues artists Arthur Crudup, Sam Myers, ...