Ulysses Simpson Grant

Here in this little hamlet Ulysses Simpson Grant was born on April 27, 1822. He was the victorious commander of the Union forces in the final stages of the war of the rebellion and President of the United States March ...

Cabrillo’s Ships

The first three sailing vessels to enter San Diego Bay came from the direction you are facing. They were the San Salvador, the Victoria and the San Miguel - Spanish vessels commanded by Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo. The San Salvador, a ...

Hooks Abstract Company

Established in 1902, the Hooks Abstract Company is thought to be the oldest continuously operating business in Hardin County. Named for its major investor J.B. Hooks, the company initially provided land ownership research for oil and timber companies. Co-founder Amos ...

Prelude to the Crater

“The mine is all finished, the powder in, the fuse all ready. I hope that the attack will be successful, for if it is, we shall have Petersburg in our possession.”

- Col. Stephen M. Weld, 50th Massachusetts July 28, ...

Where “Ang Kalayaan” Was Printed

This house was occupied by Dr. Pio Valenzuela together with Ulpiano Fernandez and Faustino Duque, Filipino printers who turned out for Dr. Valenzuela and Emilio Jacinto 2,000 copies of the newspaper entitled “Ang Kalayaan,” giving Yokohama as the place of ...

Burial Place of Twenty-Nine Confederate Soldiers

Erected by the United States

to mark the burial place of

twenty-nine Confederate soldiers

who died at Fort McHenry, Maryland,

while prisoners of war,

and whose remains were there buried,

but subsequently removed to this section,

where the individual graves

Laura's Dugout Home on the Banks of Plum Creek

The Charles Ingalls Family's dugout home was located here in the 1870's. This depression is all that remains since the roof caved in years ago. The prairie grasses and flowers here grow much as they did in Laura's time, and ...

Pioneer Publisher and Printer David Ervin Lawhon

Born in Tennessee on June 15, 1811. While very young learned the printing trade and worked at it in some of the principal cities of the United States.

Came to Nacogdoches, Texas, in November, 1835, in answer to pleas for volunteers ...

Ralph Blaisdell and Family

Near this site on August 15, 1635

Ralph Blaisdell and family

were shipwrecked.

The ship was the Angel Gabriel

bound from Bristol, England

to Pemaquid.

From here the family

went to York, Maine

and later to Salisbury,

Massachusetts.

Marker can be reached from Bristol Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cathedral of Immaculate Conception

Oldest church structure in continuous use in Fort Wayne area and seat of Catholicism in Northern Indiana.

Christianity carried to this part of the New World in 1600's by Catholic missionaries. Land formerly part of burial ground for Miami Indians.

Major ...