Etienne Veniard - Sieur de Bourgemont

Etienne Veniard - Sieur de Bourgemont

(front of marker in English)

Starting about 1680, the pressure of French traders moving up the Missouri from the Illinois country coincided with the commercial void created by the Pueblo Indian revolt in New ...

Woodbridge

Woodbridge

The town consists of portions of the colonial jurisdictions of New Haven and Milford. Founded in 1738 as the Parish of Amity, it was incorporated in 1784 by act of the Connecticut General Assembly and named after the first parish ...

George Washington Bi-Centennial Tree

Planted April 27 1932

This tablet placed

Americanization Day

April 27 1934

By Halvarson-Bowers Aux' 187

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Marker can be reached from Minnehaha Avenue south of East Minnehaha Parkway, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lambert Plantation

Just east of here was the 863 acre plantation of John Lambert which he purchased in 1784.

John Lambert was born in south Carolina in 1716 and died at his plantation here in December 1786. He is buried in the Midway ...

The Cobblestone

Built in 1848 by Ahira Rockwell Hinkley first settler in Eagle Township, who came here in 1836. This house is one of the best examples of cobblestone work in Wisconsin. To insure uniformity in size, the stones were dropped through ...

British Victory at Frenchtown

From near this spot on Jan. 22, 1813, 525 British soldiers and Canadian militiamen from Fort Malden under Col. Henry Proctor and some 800 Indians under Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-In-The-Water launched a pre-dawn attack on the sleeping American camp a ...

Burrows's Service Station / Cooper's Country Store

Burrows's Service Station

This significant cultural and architectural example of a 20th-century country store was built in 1937 by Theron Burrows (1910-1973) when U.S. Hwy. 521 was finished from Georgetown to Manning. A combination grocery and gas station with family ...

Bekeart’s Gun Shop

Jules Francois Bekeart was a gunsmith who came here in 1849 to mine gold and soon became a close friend of James Marshall. The hard labor of gold mining was not to his liking, so “Frank” Berkeart started a highly ...

Miami-Erie and Wabash-Erie Canals

Junction, Ohio

On this site, the Miami and Erie Canal, that came north from Cincinnati and the Ohio River, intersected with the Wabash and Erie Canal that came from Fort Wayne and Evansville, Indiana. From this point, which became the ...

The Rock on Brightwood Avenue

Battleground to Community

Across Quackenbos Street is Emory United Methodist Church. Named to honor Bishop John Emory of Maryland (1789-1835), the congregation dates from 1832.

From the beginning, Emory welcomed all races but, like most Washington churches then, seated African ...