Wilson Farmhouse

Samuel "Uncle Sam" & Ebenezer

Wilson built their home here on

Mount Ida, overlooking Troy. The

surrounding orchard and nearby

hillside were ideal for grazing

animals, assuring a steady supply

of livestock for their growing meat

packing business, established in 1793.

Marker can be reached from Prospect Park ...

Franklin and New Franklin

Franklin, 1816

The original town of Franklin, founded in 1816, was located on the north bank of the Missouri River and was the seat of Howard County. It was about two miles southwest of present day New Franklin. The town was ...

Dr. Forbes Barclay

1812 - 1873

Dr. Forbes Barclay left Scotland in 1839 for Fort Vancouver (Washington) where he became chief physician for Hudson's Bay Company. He moved to Oregon City in 1850 where he practiced medicine for many years. He was one of ...

The Touchstone House "Falls Cottage"

Multi Use House

The two-story stucco-covered brick house overlooking the Reedy River falls was built by W.E. Touchstone between 1894 and 1896. It was located in the "West End," a rapidly developing residential and commercial area across the river from Greenville's ...

History of Dills Tavern

Dills Tavern is a twelve room structure erected in three phases from 1794 to 1819. The Dill family maintained a tavern in the area beginning in the 1750's. The tavern was one of several business ventures carried on at this ...

Confederate Artillery

Artillery was an effective weapon, particularly when used in defensive combat. Nowhere was that demonstrated more clearly than here on Marye's Heights, where nine guns of the Washington Artillery shattered the ranks of the oncoming Union army. "The shells fell ...

James Foster House

Old Burnt Hickory Road

On June 2, 1864 pressure on right of Johnston’s line [CS] by 23rd A. C. [US] forced the rt. of Hardee’s Corps [CS] E. of the Dallas - Acworth road, enabling Schofield [US] to gain a position ...

City of Trails

New Franklin, known as the city where four trails meet, owes its place in history to the Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1803-1806; the blazing of the Boonslick Trail pioneered by Daniel Boone from Kentucky to the original historic rivertown ...

Confederates on the Ridge

"What chance had flesh and blood to carry by storm such a position, garrisoned too as it was with veteran soldiers? Not one chance in a million."

Alexander Hunter,

17th Virginia Infantry.

At noon, December 13, 1862, the first of nine Union divisions ...

Theodore Foss Memorial Highway

Dedicated to State Trooper

Corporal Theodore "Ted" Foss

1965–2000

Corporal Ted Foss was

killed August 31, 2000

on I-90 near Lewiston, Mn

while making a traffic stop

Marker can be reached from Interstate 90 at milepost 275, on the right when traveling west.

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