Le Petit Fort

At Le Petit Fort, near this site, a battle was fought on December 5, 1780, between American forces under command of Lt. Thomas Brady and Jean Baptiste Hamelin and British forces under command of Dahreau de Quindre.

Marker is on County ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- World Class Workers

Who’s Been Working On The Railroad?

If you stood here sometime between 1907 and 1911, you would have heard a multitude of languages.

The hundreds of people employed during the construction of the Milwaukee Road included; Italians, Bulgarians, Japanese, Serbs, Croatians, Montenegrins, ...

Confederate Winter Camps

Fighting Boredom and Disease

After the Confederate victory at Ball’s Bluff in October 1861, the Union and Confederate armies settled into winter camps between Washington and Richmond. Confederate forces withdrew from Fairfax County to Prince William County and defended a line ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Toughest Town

People used to say “Taft, Montana was the toughest town in the west until Grand Forks, Idaho developed.”

Located across the valley at the mouth of Cliff Creek, a Forest Service employee described it as,

“…a wild mushroom construction town. The main ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- "In the Hole"

When two trains met on the single track Milwaukee mainline one train would have to “go in the hole”. One train moved onto a side track or siding, letting the other train pass by.

Timing a “meet” was extremely important. An ...

Port Lawrence / Fort Industry, 1805

Ohio Historical Marker

[East Side of Marker]:"Port Lawrence"

This pioneer village, which was united with its downriver rival, Vistula, to be incorporated as Toledo in 1837, was platted by Cincinnati businessmen in 1817. The "Panic" of 1819 caused the enterprise to default. ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Secluded Falcon

You are standing on what was Falcon, Idaho, a lonely but important Milwaukee Road siding named for the raptors that nested in the area. Train passengers gave the place scant notice, but by 1915, a depot, a section house and ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Little in Name Only

[Cyrillic text]

(Little Joes, The Locomotives Big Joe Stalin Never Got!)

Made for Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, the United States embargoed these magnificent locomotives as strategic material at the start of the “Cold War”.

The Milwaukee Road bought twelve of these 586,00 pound ...

A Memorial to William Harris Crawford

A Memorial to William Harris Crawford

1772 – 1834

Statesman Diplomat Patriot

Erected by Elijah Clarke Chapter D.A.R. of Athens,

Georgia

Feb. 24, 1929

Marker is at the intersection of Athens Highway (U.S. 78) and W. H. Crawford Road, on the right when traveling west on ...

Freight on the Move

Central Pacific Railroad

Since the days of Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento was the trading center for much of the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada and points beyond. As the railroad network around the capital city expanded, Sacramento merchants were able to market ...