West Lafayette Volunteer Fire Department Centennial

100 Years of Service

1895-1995

1993 Building Addition

Chief

Gaylord Hill

Ass't Chief

Glenn Hill

Captain

Don Lusk •

Steve Wilson

Lieutenant

Ron Lusk •

Dallas Hill •

Mike Layton

Firefighters

Jerry Gress •

Dave Guilliams •

Tim Cheney •

Don Bradford •

Scott Matchett •

W. Mark Hale •

Chad Hains ...

Site of Master Mechanic’s Quarters

Fort Hancock was home to both military personnel and a civilian population of contractors and specialists. The civilians who lived on post worked, shopped, and went to school alongside their military neighbors. The building that stood here was home of ...

Reserve Artillery, Longstreet's Command

C.S.A.

Reserve Artillery, Longstreet's Command,

Col. Stephen D. Lee, C.S.A., Commanding.

Organization.

Ashland Artillery Va.,

Bedford Artillery Va.,

Brooks Artillery S.C.,

Madison Light Artillery La.,

Eubank's Battery Va.,

Parker's Battery Va.

September 15-16, 1862.

The Reserve Artillery crossed the Antietam about 8 a.m. of the 15th and took position on the ...

Taft Museum of Art

Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft House

This Federal house was begun about 1820 for Martin Baum (1765-1831), one of Cincinnati's early merchants. Art patron and abolitionist Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863) lived here for more than thirty years and commissioned the notable landscape murals in the foyer ...

Bachelor Officers’ Quarters

The BOQ housed unmarried officers. Captains and majors lived on the second floor in their own suites with private baths and sitting rooms. Lieutenants occupied single bedrooms and shared a bathroom on the top floor. The first floor was the ...

Woodward High School / School for Creative and Performing Arts

Side A: Woodward High School

William and Abigail Cutter Woodward founded Woodward High School, the first public high school west of the Allegheny Mountains, on this site October 24, 1831. Concerned that the poor of Cincinnati had no avenues ...

Preservation of Earthworks

Since 1813, earthworks like these once encircled the Star Fort to provide a safe passage for soldiers and to protect the brick walls from enemy artillery. In 1839, a post-rail fence was erected to protect the earthworks from erosion caused ...

Edenton Tea Party

Fifty-one women met at Mrs. Elizabeth King's home, which stood 1100 ft. S.E., and resolved, Oct. 25, 1774, to support the American Cause.

Marker is on W Queen St just from Broad Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Carter’s Fort

Three miles east in Rye Cove stood Carter’s Fort, built by Thomas Carter in 1784. It was a station on the Old Wilderness Road from North Carolina to Kentucky.

Marker is on Sunbright Highway (County Route 871) just north of County ...

Burning of the Brig "Peggy Stewart"

Near this spot

which was then the shore of the bay,

the Brig “Peggy Stewart” was burned

by her owner, “Anthony Stewart.”

October 19, 1774

To pacify the indignation of the

citizens roused by the payment of

duties on seventeen boxes of tea

imported in the brig.

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Erected in ...