J. C. Penny Building

ca. 1939

J.C.Penny's built and occupied this building for over 45 years. From 1893 until 1925 Hendersonville's Town Hall and Opera house stood on this location. Romanesque in architure, the building housed all city services and a 400 seat auditorium.

Marker is ...

Columbia Triumphant Park and Statue

Liberty Triumphant

Monmouth County Historical Site

Columbia Triumphant Park

This granite carving of Columbia Triumphant–also known as Liberty Triumphant–was part of the original statue placed atop the monument located on nearby Court Street commemorating the June 28, 1778 Battle of Monmouth, a major ...

Daniel's Brigade

Rodes's Division - Ewell's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Rodes's Division

Daniel's Brigade

32nd. 43rd. 45th. 53rd. Regiments and 2nd.

Battalion North Carolina Infantry

July 1 The Brigade formed the right of Division and its line extended from Forney field to the railroad near ...

Gogebic Iron Range

The Gogebic was the last of the three great iron ore fields opened in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. Beginning in 1848 with Dr. A. Randall, federal and state geologists had mapped the ore formations almost perfectly long before ...

Bob Powers

June 7, 1924 – September 11, 2002

A fifth generation native of Kern River Valley, Bob is best remembered for the 9 history books he wrote. Without him much of what happened in our valley’s past would have been lost. He ...

Chapel of the Franciscan Venerable Third Order

Here once stood the Chapel of the Franciscan Venerable Third Order. Housed the Congregation of the Third Order of Saint Francis established in 1611 by Fr. Jose de Santa Maria, O.F.M. Chapel built in 1618. Stone edifice built in 1678. ...

Milwaukee Street Bridge

One of the nation’s most innovative bridge designers of the 20th century, Daniel B. Luten, designed the Milwaukee Street Bridge. Constructed in 1930 by Eau Claire Engineering, the bridge was a rare example of a steel-reinforced, three span, open-spandrel, continuous ...

Iverson's Brigade

Rodes's Division - Ewell's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Rodes's Division

Iverson's Brigade

5th. 12th. 20th. 23rd. North Carolina Infantry

July 1 The Brigade was one of the first of the Division in the battle. It advanced against the Union line posted behind ...

Plank Road Pioneer Barn

This barn was built by an early settler in 1853 was used by regional farmers driving cattle to the Milwaukee market over the Milwaukee-Watertown Plank Road. It was moved from the Plank road area east of the Rock River to ...

Tudor Hall Barn

Tudor Hall Plantation

This building is a reproduction of a nineteenth-century barn located in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. Tidewater and Piedmont farmers constructed numerous small, inexpensive barns to support their work. Virginia’s mild climate made it unnecessary to keep livestock ...