Appleby's Methodist Church

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This church was organized shortly after the Revolution and this site was deeded to seven trustees in 1787. One of them, Jacob Barr, was the first minister to serve here. Appleby’s Methodist Church was named for a prominent ...

Elbert G. Sohm

Dedicated to

Elbert G. Sohm

Pioneer Aviator,

World War I Pilot,

Lifelong Flying Enthusiast

20 November 1979

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Bailey's Landing

(A Landmark Store)

This building was constructed on the home site of General Joseph Bailey Civil War hero and a founder of Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells) in 1856. Bailey became a national Civil War hero in 1864 when Porter's Red ...

The Old Bushvalley Fort

Here Stood

The Old Bushvalley Fort

Built 1879

For protection against

Renegade Apaches

Marker is on U.S. 180 at milepost 427.7, on the left when traveling west.

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Churubusco War Memorial

This tablet erected to perpetuate the memory of those who sacrificed their lives and honoring those who served in our armed forces.

World Wars I & II

This tablet is dedicated to amend the above tablet to include the Korean and Viet ...

Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Normal and Industrial Institute

The Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Students was established here in 1880 by the Pilgram Missionary Baptist Association. The school was established, organized, funded and staffed by African Americans. The institute

offered vocational classes in subjects such ...

Western Hotel: Symbol of Strife

After the army sold Fort Scott in 1855, the infantry barracks located here (reconstructed in front of you) became the pro-slavery Western Hotel. The building across the parade ground directly behind you became the anti-slavery Free State Hotel. The two ...

"A Most Deplorable Condition"

“I have now over 200 in camp, and they are in a most deplorable condition….I have a mother with her dying babe in my office. The rest are in camp, in a condition next to death. Most of them have ...

Houston Baptist

Houston Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery were

organized in 1886 under the leadership of Reverend Ulysses L. Houston, minister of First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah. A significant religious and political leader in the African-American community, Houston attended the meeting ...

The Red River Plunge of Bonnie and Clyde

On June 10, 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pritchard and family saw from their home on the bluff (west) the plunge of an auto into Red River. Rescuing the victims, unrecognized as Bonnie Parker and Clyde and Buck Barrow, they ...