Battle of Fallen Timbers

[Front Side Text of Marker] : "Battle of Fallen Timbers"

The Battle of Fallen Timbers, fought on August 20, 1794, is one of the most significant events relating to post-Revolutionary War America. Major General "Mad" Anthony Wayne led the Federal Army, ...

Birthplace of General Joseph Wheeler

A short distance north of this place, General Joseph Wheeler was born on Sept. 10, 1836. He graduated from West Point in 1859 and held the rank of 2nd

lieutenant when the Civil War broke out. Resigning his commission in the ...

Walnut Street Bridge

This bridge, completed in 1890, is the oldest surviving structure to have spanned the Susquehanna River and is one of the largest multi-span, truss bridges ever fabricated by the nationally significant Phoenix Bridge Company. It is also the oldest metal ...

The People’s Bridge

Landmark Era - Since 1972

Built to pre-automobile specifications before the turn of the 20th Century, the People's Bridge by mid century earned the nickname, "Old Shakey," because of the noisy vibrations of its cast-iron superstructure under an ever-increasing volume of ...

Monasterboice / Mainistir Bhuithe

Monasterboice — from Mainistir Bhuithe (the Monastery of Buithe)

This is the only early Irish monastery whose name incorporates the Irish word mainistir.

Monasterboice was founded by St Buite, who died around 520.

The monastery was an important centre of spirituality and learning ...

Beaumont Hop House

Growing of hops for commercial beer making purposes was important in Waukesha County agriculture during the 1860’s and for several decades thereafter. They were introduced here from new York by James Weaver of Sussex in 1837.

The Beaumont hop house of ...

Hanna Levi Memorial Library / Manning Library

Hanna Levi Memorial Library

The Hannah Levi Memorial Library, built

in 1909-1910, grew out of a library fund

begun in 1905 by the children of Moses

and Hannah Levi, along with proceeds

from the sale of Moses Levi Memorial

Institute. A matching grant from ...

Second Brigade

Third Division - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps Third Division

Second Brigade

Col. Thomas A. Smyth

Lieut. Col. Francis E. Pierce

14th. Connecticut, 1st. Delaware

12th. New Jersey, 10th. 108th. New York Infantry

July 2 Took position early in the morning along a stone fence ...

Ford Building

Built c.1835

Old Town Fairfax

This was the home of Antonia Ford, imprisoned as a spy following Ranger Mosby's night capture of the local Union commander, Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton, March 9, 1863. A search of the house had revealed an ...

Bongoland

Several attempts were made to operate Dunlawton Plantation as a tourist attraction in the the 1950's Dr. Perry Sperber leased the premises from J. Saxon Lloyd for a park to display prehistoric monsters and had a number of replicas, molded ...