Site of Blue Mounds Fort

Built in May 1832 by the miners and settlers of the neighborhood and garrisoned by them as volunteer members of General Henry Dodge's Iowa-Michigan Brigade from May 20 to September 20, 1832 during the Black Hawk War

This site was donated ...

The Most Dangerous Chieftain

When Sarah Anderson and her sons owned Dunlawton, Mosquito County settlers formed a militia unit called the Mosquito Roarers. Even with its fine name, this group reportedly lacked anyone who had ever "seen a gun fired in anger." By the ...

U.S. Shot Furnace

This structure is a hot shot furnace for heating cannon balls to be shot at wooden vessels and to set them on fire. It is part of the water battery built by the U.S. (1842-44) when this side of the ...

Jefferson County Courthouse Site

The county seat of Jefferson County was moved from Elyton to Birmingham in 1873. On this site stood the first Courthouse in the City of Birmingham. The Italianate style structure was designed by architect W. K. Ball. Completed in 1875, ...

The Roof

Dunlawton's new metal roof is meant to protect stonework and machinery. But it also makes an important point. Though not an exact replica of the wooden roof that protected it, this shelter reminds us that a large, enclosed factory once ...

Bennington Battle Field

August 16, 1777

- • • ? American Forces

- ? ? British x ? ? Indians

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Erected by the

State of New York

August 16, 1927

Marker can be reached from New York Route 67, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Coming of the Italians

With the advent of the cigar industry in 1886,

the Italians were attracted in mass to the environs

of Ybor City. They found employment in cigar

factories, the building of the Tampa Bay Hotel,

the construction of railroads, and farming.

The

Italians settled in the eastern ...

Frenchtown

Top

Town takes its name from the many French families that followed Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost, a Swiss refugee from the French Revolution who moved here in 1794.

Bottom

Called "Sunbeam" in 1759. Later Sherrard's Ferry. Present name for Prevost family, refugees from the ...

Site of Rincon/Douglass School

Following the Civil War and the Emancipation of American slaves, the Federal Government established the Freedman's Bureau to oversee programs aimed at educating and assisting blacks with their newly-granted citizenship. One of the most visible of the bureau's programs was ...

Historic Fire Station No. 4

In 1897, the first city-owned fire station in Ybor City was established on this site, then the heart of the Italian section.

It was a two- story frame building with a bell tower. Equipped with a hose - wagon and a ...