Atchison WWI Factory Supported Freedom

Atchison County Historic Site

At this site Atchison Leather Products operated a grease factory that filled a vital need to keep the world free. Before World War I the only factory producing a certain grease needed in munitions production and packing ...

91st Pennsylvania Infantry

3d Brigade, 2d Division, 5th Corps

91st Penna.

Infantry.

3d. Brig.

2d. Div.

5th Corps.

(Front "Door"):

July 2d moving at double-quick in the evening, the Regiment took position here and, having aided in repulsing the attack of the enemy upon this line, remained until the close ...

Blackford County Revolutionary War Heroes

In Memory

of the

Revolutionary Heroes

who rest in Blackford County

David Kirkpatrick • John Mills

John Saxon • John Twibell • Thomas Miles

Erected by

The Nancy Knight Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1776 —— 1933

Marker is at the ...

2nd Maryland Infantry

Maryland

2nd Md Infantry

At 9:30 a.m. advanced

on the stone bridge,

defended by Toombs'

Brigade and two batt-

eries on high ground

beyond. Charged to

within 100 yards of the

bridge when, checked

by the severity of

the enemy's fire it took

shelter along the bank

of the stream and was

engaged until ...

Herndon Formerly Trevorton Junction

By deed dated Oct. 7, 1750, Richard and Thomas Penn conveyed the land upon which Herndon is located to Conrad Weiser for negotiating the Treaty of 1749 with the Indians.

In 1850, the Trevorton, Mahanoy and Susquehanna Railway Co. erected a ...

Working Men of the Railroads

The backbreaking work building railroads to the West was accomplished by men, like Thomas W. Haverty from Galway, Ireland. Wielding hammers and driving spikes their labor united a country and made Atchison "The Rail Centre of Kansas" beginning with the ...

Frank Howard House

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Terrace Street and Santa Fe Street, on the left when traveling north on Terrace Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

35th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The Thirty-fifth Regiment

of

Massachusetts Volunteers

Crossed this bridge with Ferrero's

Brigade, Ninth Army Corps

at noon, Sept. 17, 1862, and

moved to the right up the hill

where, at the lane, two hundred

and fourteen of their officers

and men were killed or wounded.

Gloria est Pro Patria Mori

Erected ...

Birthplace of George Westinghouse

Birthplace Of

George Westinghouse 1846 - 1914

Inventor of the Westinghouse

Air Brake

Marker is at the intersection of George Westinghouse Road and Sidney Road, on the right when traveling south on George Westinghouse Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Norfolk Botanical Gardens

These gardens were conceived by City Manager Thomas Thompson during the Great Depression. His idea was executed by city gardener Frederic Heutte; noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette served as a consultant. In 1938 about 200 black women were paid ...