Battery I, First Regiment New York Light Artillery

2nd Division

(Front):Battery I, First Regiment N.Y. Light

Artillery

Capt. M. Wiedrich, Commanding

2nd. Division 11th. Corps,

July 1st. 2nd. & 3rd. 1863.

(Back):Casualties,

3 killed, 10 wounded.

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling north.

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Columbus - A Town Transformed

The view from these 180-foot bluffs has changed significantly in the last several centuries. The Mississippi River has shifted course. Portions of the bluff has crumbled into the river. The bustling town of Columbus, which once lay just beneath these ...

Civil Liberties at Dorchester Cooperative Center 1940 - present

Dorchester Academy

In an effort to involve Liberty County African Americans in politics, the Dorchester Cooperative Center (DCC) began to help organize

African American Voters. The DCC taught local African Americans the United States and Georgia constitutions, followed the activities of state ...

Flambeau Trail – Two Ways to Go

Iron County Heritage Area

In days of yesteryear, traveling south on the Flambeau Trail, you arrived at Big Turtle Lake (now Echo Lake) and Little Turtle Lake (now called either Grand Portage Lake or Tank Lake) to what is now Mercer. ...

World's Largest Ball of Sisal Twine

Thrift + Patience = Success

Started by

Frank Stoeber

in 1953

7,801,766 feet

17,886 pounds

2006

1988 circumference 40' 3"

14,687 lbs.

Marker is on Wisconsin Avenue (U.S. 24) near Lake Drive, on the right when traveling east.

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South Branch Historic District

The site of homesteads settled early in the 1700's

Marker is on Rockafellows Mill Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Flambeau Trail – Continental Divide

Iron County Heritage Area

You are now standing on the “Continental Divide”, a geological demarcation line which splits Northern Wisconsin.

North of “The Divide”, rivers flow to Lake Superior and finally to the Atlantic Ocean. These waterways are full of rapids ...

Hillsborough Will Never Forget

In memory of those who lost their lives in the tragic events of September 11, 2001

An Eagle Scout project by Ernie Guaimano

Boy Scout Troop 186

Marker can be reached from Woodfern Road.

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Flambeau Trail - Little Finland

Iron County Heritage Area

Jobs in the iron mines of the Penokee Range! Ample land to homestead!

News of the good life on the Penokee Iron Range brought Finnish immigrants here as early as 1887. By 1900, native born Finns were the ...

Orestimba

A local Indian word for "meeting place". Nearby are the famous Indian rocks and sycamore grove where mission padres met with the local Indian tribes. Visited by Lt. Moraga and Fr. Viader on October 25, 1810. Became a favorite watering ...