Fort Couch

Remains of breastworks built in June 1863 to oppose an expected attack on Harrisburg by Confederate troops. Site then known as Hummel's Heights. Fort was named for General Couch, Commander, Eastern Pennsylvania Military Department.

Marker is at the intersection of Indiana ...

Pueblo of Laguna

Keresan speaking refugees from Santo Domingo, Acoma, Cochiti, and other pueblos founded Laguna after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Spanish reconquest of 1692. Named by the Spaniards for a marshy lake to the west, the pueblo still occupies ...

Friends Burial Ground

In 1804, Miami Monthly Meeing purchased this land to use as a graveyard. Burials were made without regard to status or family association, but rather by date of death. Some of the earliest graves are marked with a plain rock ...

Hannah Cole's Fort

In 1810 Hannah Cole and her nine children crossed the Missouri River and built a cabin on the site of Boonville, thus becomig the first white settlers south of the river.

After repeated Indian trouble in 1814 it was deemed necessary ...

Star of the West, Tent No. Six

An African American women's community service organization chartered 1865. A part of the United Order of Tents, J.R. Giddings and Jollifee Union, founded in 1847 and named for abolitionist Congressman Giddings and his law partner.

Marker is on South Adams ...

Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard

Baseball Hall Of Famer

Rocky Mount Native

Born near this spot in 1907. Rose to

fame in the Negro Leagues, 1933-50.

Won Negro National League pennant

nine straight years while first baseman

of the Homestead Grays. Ranked

among home run leaders and won

Negro National League ...

Miller-Fish Building

circa 1887

In this block, early settler Charles A Miller owned a hay & grain store, livery stable, and buggy & carriage shop. All fell to the flames of the 1886 fire. Miller was among the first to rebuild, erecting the ...

First United Methodist Church

The Methodist Episcopal Church of Troy was organized in 1843. The first building was constructed in 1858, on land donated by Ann Dowdell Love, affectionately known as "Granny Love." The second structure was erected in 1888.

The present edifice, completed in ...

Capture of Union Troops

This marks defence works

where three companies of

Union soldiers were taken

prisoner when Confederates

captured Boonville

Oct. 16, 1864

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 40) and Vine Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

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"Lest We Forget"

To honor the memory and valor of our soldiers

Civil War

W.W.I

W.W.II

Korean

Vietnam

Operation Desert Storm

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street (Alabama Route 93) and Oak Street, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.

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