Preserve our Freedom

Polk County men & women who

lost their lives fighting to

preserve our freedom

World War II 1941-1945

Arledge, Keith •

Arledge, Otis •

Blackwell, Henry •

Bobo, Alfred •

Byars, Lionel •

Cannon, Watler •

Carson, Marion •

Chandley, M. C. ...

100 Birthday of Freedom Tree

This Tree Was

Planted By

Stanley Post No. 11

July 4, 1879

To Commemotate

The 100 Birth Day

Of Freedom Of

The U.S. of A.

Marker is at the intersection of Park Place and Walnut Hill Park, on the left when traveling south on Park Place.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Freedom Square

May this site of "Freedom Square" be an eternal remembrance of those Shelby County Veterans who served and sacrificed that all people might live in a world of peace and freedom.

[On either side of the inscription are photo etchings of ...

Boy Scouts of America Liberty and Freedom Memorial

On June 11, 12, 13, 1976,

Scouts and their Leaders from the

Dan Beard Council • Miami Valley Council

Mound Builders Council • Shawnee Council

Tecumseh Council

gathered on this site to commemorate

the Bicentennial anniversary

of the signing of our nation's

Declaration of Independence

and to dedicate themselves ...

Freedom Lost

By the late 1700s the institution of slavery was declining in Delaware. A changing economy and the active efforts of Quakers and Methodists had led to the manumission of many slaves and dramatic growth of the state’s free black population. ...

A Gateway to Freedom

As early as 1821, enslaved blacks seeking freedom crossed the Ohio River from Louisville to New Albany. Antebellum and Civil War periods brought more fugitives. Many freedom-seekers were aided by other slaves, free blacks, and anti-slavery whites -- all risking ...

Freedom Trail - 113 DeHaven Street

This was the home of Oscar Turner (1898-1987) and his wife Mabel (1903-1978). Their daughter, Mattie, married educator and coach A. Malcolm Jones, the principal of Richard J. Murray High School, for whom the recreational field at the nearby Willie ...

Freedom Trail - 5480 Atlantic View

This beach cottage attracted international attention in 1964, and a photograph taken here of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointing to a bullet hole in the window has become one of the iconic images of the civil rights movement. It ...

Freedom’s Fortress

Fort Monroe was the site of Major General Benjamin F. Butler’s decision in 1861 to accept escaping slaves as “contraband of war.” Thousands of former slaves who cast off their bondage and sought sanctuary here called this “The Freedom Fort.” ...

Gateway to Freedom

Trail to Freedom

"I bounded across the Gang plank and concealed Myself for a while until the Steamer got off from the Wharf. I then came out and arrived Safe at 6th Street Wharf in Washington D.C. on the Night of ...