Pope’s Army of Virginia

On 26 June 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. John Pope to command the Union army that operated in Virginia. The Corps led by Maj. Gen.

Franz Sigel, who had recently replaced Maj. Gens. John C. Frémont, posted around ...

Nathaniel Foote

Nathaniel Foote

The Settler

Born In England 1593

Died In Wethersfield 1644

Erected By The

Foote Family Association

Of America

On The Original Home Lot

September 7, 1908

Marker is on Broad Street near Middletown Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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T.B. Scott Free Library

This building (1911) is an outstanding example of library design in “Prairie School” architecture by Claude and Starck. The library was established (1889) through a bequest from T.B. Scott, lumberman, legislator, and Merrill’s first mayor, and was located in the ...

Wethersfield Settlers Memorial

To The Memory

Of The Adventurers From

Watertown, Massachusetts

Who Settled Wethersfield

In 1634

John Oldham • Robert Seeley • John Strickland • Andrew Ward • John Clarke • Leonard Chester • Nathaniel Foote • Abraham Finch • Robert Rose • William Swayne

Erected By

The Wethersfield ...

Alabama's First Capitals

On March 3, 1817, Congress designated the town of St. Stephens on the Tombigbee River north of Mobile as capital of the newly formed Alabama Territory. There in 1818, the territorial legislature named Huntsville as the temporary seat of government ...

Linden Farms

Rockhill-Potts, Agans & Douglass families. Farmed since 1752.

Marker is on Pittstown Road north of Bloomsbury Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Fort McAllister

? 4.5 mi.—«

East 4.5 miles, on Great Ogeechee River, Fort McAllister was built 1861-62 to guard the "back door" to Savannah. During 1862-63, it repulsed 7 attacks by armored vessels, some mounting 15-inch guns. Dec. 13, 1864, its small garrison ...

Milky Way Farm

Original Farm 1763. Stone dwelling built by H. Huffman 1854.

Marker is on Pittstown Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Halfway to the North Pole

The 45th parallel (45 Degrees North Latitude) runs through a point one half mile south of this wayside (intersection of Hwy. 57 and Logerquist Road). This is the geographical midpoint between the equator and North Pole. But, because the earth ...

Soldiers of the War of 1812

To Honor the Soldiers of the War of 1812

who lie buried in Sangamon County

[First Column]:

Roswell Abel • James Adams • William Archer • James Baker • Jacob Baker • Eli Barbre • Isaac Bates • Oliver Bates • Amor Batterton ...