The Springhouse

Water for The Hermitage

Of all the enticements Tennessee offered settlers, one promised both survival and a future: Water. Falling from above, bubbling up from below, flowing in broad river “highways”: Water.

Two natural free-flowing springs made The Hermitage a fine site ...

Five Civilized Tribes in the Battle of Honey Springs

Order Of Battle (Indian Units)

Federal Forces:

First Indian Home Guard (Cherokee)

Second Indian Home Guard (Cherokee)

Confederate Forces:

First Choctaw Regiment

Second Choctaw Regiment

First Chickasaw and Choctaw Regiment

Cherokee Regiment

First Creek Regiment

Second Creek Regiment

Seminole Battalion

Marker is on DC Minner Street (County Route N4230).

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Manufacturing Metropolis of the Midwest

Historic Wayside Tour #2

In the late 1800s and early 1900s Leavenworth was the most important manufacturing city in Kansas and one of the largest in the entire United States. It had sixty-seven prosperous and growing industries. It was third in ...

Watering the Canal

Why are there two locks here? While they may look similar, the two locks played very different roles in the operation of the canal. The lock in front of you is Inlet Lock 2. The lock behind you is Lift ...

Springdale Lutheran Church

Norwegians came to this peaceful area of rolling hills and valleys in 1846 and organized a Lutheran congregation in 1852, holding services outdoors and in homes. These God-fearing people purchased 2 acres of land for a church and cemetery in ...

Securing the Future

Bascom Hill Historic District

The Social Security system that became a cornerstone of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was written by University of Wisconsin economist Edwin Witte, who served as an advisor to Roosevelt. Witte drew from deep Wisconsin roots. He ...

Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium

Hoover Dam

One of the finest examples of how civil engineering ingenuity shaped the development of society's quality of life in the 20th century.

Marker is on U.S. 93, on the right when traveling west.

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The Big Spring

Our Anchor in Time

“For generations this great spring was the main source of water supply for the town. Before the white man settled around it the Indians and the buffaloes knew it well. It was at the crossing of two ...

The Big Spring

Our Anchor in Time

“For generations this great spring was the main source of water supply for the town. Before the white man settled around it the Indians and the buffaloes knew it well. It was at the crossing of two ...

The Old Spring

This monument marks the site of a spring that refreshed the early travelers into this region. So many bottles were found around this spring that some Chilean miners called the site "Bottileas" or place of the bottles, the first name ...