Central State University

Central State University originated on March 19, 1887, when the Ohio General Assembly passed an act establishing a Combined Normal and Industrial (CN&I) Department at Wilberforce University. Through various transitional changes, it emerged as an independent, state university. In 1941, ...

Franz Sigel Statue

Riverside Park

This bronze equestrian sculpture of military officer, educator, journalist, and public servant Franz Sigel (1824-1902) is by the distinguished sculptor Karl Bitter (1867-1915). Sigel is also honored with a park named for him, which is located at 158th ...

Glacial Lake Aitkin / Peat

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Glacial Lake Aitkin

Two million years ago the first of four glaciers covered the surface of Minnesota. They were named for the limit of their southward expansion. The first was the Nebraskan, followed by the Kansan and the Illionian. The ...

Samuel Tilden Statue

Riverside Park

William Ordway Partridge (1861-1930) sculpted this bronze, larger-than-life figure of attorney and public servant Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886). It was dedicated October 5, 1926.

Tilden was born on February 9, 1814 in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York. ...

Third Armored Field Artillery Battalion

Dedicated to the Third Armored Field Artillery Battalion whose members fought with valor and distinction in the Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe campaigns of World War II receiving a Presidential Unit Citation for sustained artillery fire, repulsing an entire German ...

Manhattan House

The New York Life Insurance Company commissioned the architects Mayer & Whittesley and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to design Manhattan House in 1951. The building reflects the theories of Le Corbusier, the renowned 20th Century French architect. One of the ...

Fairfield Plantation

The farm office across the lawn is all that remains of the once-sprawling plantation called “Fairfield.” Thomas Coleman Chandler purchased Fairfield Plantation in 1845. For the next 17 years it prospered and evolved – largely at the hands of the ...

Catherine B. Conrad

1836–1902. This house was built for Kate Conrad in 1889. Member of a prominent Winchester family, she devoted her life to educational and religious activities. She was an administrator for the Slater Trust of Boston, which sought to educate former ...

"we determin to delay at this Place"

"...we determin to delay at this Place three or four Days to make observations & recruit the party..."

Captain William Clark

June 27, 1804

On June 26, 1804, the U.S. Army expedition led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William ...

Encampment at Kaw's Mouth - June 26-29, 1804

by Ernst Ulmer - 2003

June 26, Tuesday 1804. "passed a bad Sand bar, where our tow rope broke twice, & with great exertions we rowed round it and Came to & Camped in the Point above the Kansas River."