Battle of Piqua

August 8, 1780

Within this park and immediate vicinity, former site of the Shawnee Indian Village of Piqua. The Shawnees and their British Allies were defeated by General George Rogers Clark with his army of Kentucky Frontiersmen. This battle greatly advanced ...

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3496 Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to Veterans

of All U.S.A. Wars

November 11, 1993

"For history does not long

entrust the care of freedom

to the weak or the timid"

Dwight Eisenhower

Dedicated Nov. 11, 2009

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Ohio Route 310) and Front Street, on the ...

Plainfield Cemetery

This cemetery, established in 1810, is the final resting place of many of the founders of Plainfield and Linton Township. Besides the early date of its founding, it is notable for the number of armed forces veterans interred here, who ...

Olustee Battlefield

(Right Panel)

Welcome to the Olustee Battlefield

Battlefield Map included with Park

rules and regulations

(Center Panel)

How Many Would Die ?

The morning of February 20, 1864,

dawned clear and cool. The Union army,

commanded by Brigadier General Truman Seymour,

set his force into motion at6:00 ...

Carnegie Library of Homestead Swim Team

Carnegie Library opened here 1898. Host to athletic club that included world-renowned swimmers. Coached by Jack Scarry, Olympic medal winners were Susan Laird & Jo McKim, 1928, & Lenore Kight Wingard, 1932 & 1936. Anna Mae Gorman competed in 1932.

Marker ...

Historic First Reformed Church

Earliest records of this pioneer Dutch church, dated 1686, mark it as the second oldest in New Jersey. Old stones embedded in the east wall show the initials of founding families and first settlers.

The old burying ground contains the grave ...

In Memory of Those Men Who Died in the Battle of Piqua

"In memory of those men who died in

the Battle of Piqua, August 8, 1780,

the largest Revolutionary War battle

West of the Alleghenies."

Marker can be reached from Tecumseh Road (Ohio Route 369) north of Lower Valley Pike.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Beech Bottom Fort

Near here stood Beech Bottom

Fort, which was with Fort Pitt

and Fort Henry in the group

of posts guarding the western

borders during the Revolution

and its attendant Indian wars.

Troops from Fort Pitt helped

garrison this important fort.

Marker is at the intersection of West Virginia ...

Frances Perkins

U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1933-45. Visited Homestead July 1933 to discuss New Deal policy. Local authorities barred her from meeting with aggrieved steelworkers in nearby Frick Park. Undeterred, she moved the assembly to federal property here, at the former U.S. ...

Site of Camp Belknap

In May 1846 when war was declared against Mexico, the U.S. Congress authorized the raising of 50,000 volunteer troops to supplement the regular U.S. Army. General Zachary Taylor was quickly inundated with volunteer soldiers arriving at Brazos Santiago, and was ...