Fuller Earle Callaway, Sr.

Born in LaGrange July 15, 1870, Fuller E. Callaway was a textile manufacturer, merchant, and philanthropist. In 1888, he established his first business on LaFayette Square just west of this point.

Organizing and operating textile mills, banks, warehouses and department stores, ...

1825 Lafayette 1925

1826 Tippecanoe County 1926

Lafayette.

Named for America’s friend from France. Founded by William Digby in May 1825. Head of navigation on Wabash River. Important Port of Wabash Canal 1843 - 1859. Well-known station in “underground Railroad.” Home of Purdue ...

Crawford’s Sweep

The decisive Union movement at the Battle of Five Forks was, for the Federals, a fortunate mistake. While one Union division struck the Confederate left at the Angle, Brig. Gen. Samuel W Crawford’s division passed too far north and missed ...

Greenfield: The Last Town in Milwaukee County

Following the end of World War II, Milwaukee’s rapid urban development forced the seven rural towns of Milwaukee County into annexation or incorporation. When Greenfield incorporated as a city in 1957, the last of Milwaukee County’s towns disappeared and with ...

Blackford County Korea & Vietnam Honor Rolls

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To honor the men and the women of

Blackford County

who fought in Korea and Vietnam

and to the heroes who gave

their lives on land,

on the sea, and in the sky

that ...

Boyhood Home of Jeremiah Curtin

(1835-1906)

Born in Detroit to Irish immigrant parents, Curtin came to Milwaukee in 1837 to join his mother’s family the Furlongs and settle on a farm in Greenfield. In the 1840’s the Curtins moved into this typically Irish stone house ...

A Final Stand

With their left at the Angle crashed and their center near the Five Forks intersection overrun, the Confederates made a final stand here, in and around Gilliam’s field. Across the open ground to your right, Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer ...

The First Settlers of Logan

The first settlers of Logan encamped near this spot on the bank of the Little Logan early in May 1859

Heads of Families: John R Blanchard, Abraham Caldwell, Griffith Charles, Israel J. Clark, Ann Davis, William Dees, James Demino, Sidney Dibble, ...

Milwaukee County's First Airport

One of the earliest publicly–owned airports in the United State was established here on July 3, 1919, by the Milwaukee County Park Commission.

The nation’s first commercial air transport, the Lawson Airliner, took off from this field on August 27, ...

Point of Honor

Point of Honor stands half a mile to the northeast. Built for Dr. George Cabell Sr. in 1815, this refined Federal-style house is stylistically linked to dwellings in Richmond such as the Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House. According to local tradition, duels were ...