First Church Built in Parke County Indiana

Site of

Shiloh Presbyterian Church

Organized on Thursday

Dec. 17, 1822

First Church Built

in Parke Co. Ind.

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 100 N and Adams Road (County Route 349), on the left when traveling east on County ...

Birthplace of Mordecai Brown

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Birthplace of Mordecai Brown

Born in this Mining Community of Nyesville, Indiana.

The first Indiana player inducted into the

Baseball Hall of Fame

His 14 year Major League career Boast the following Records:

Total Games —————– 481

Games Started —————332

Games Completed ...

Post Trader's Store

Each post had its trader or sutler that sold general merchandise to soldiers. The trader was the only civilian allowed to operate a business for profit on a military fort. The trader's store at Fort Hays was located 50 feet ...

Helicopter Landing Pad

Navy purchased the land in 1943. Fixed wing planes used the airstrip into the 1950's. In 1952 Marine Helicopter pilots practiced take-offs and landings at this site up through the Vietnam era.

Marker can be reached from Brookhurst Street near Heil ...

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

F. Co., 505 PIR, 82nd Airborne

Born 1920 — Died 1990

This plaque is to commemorate

P.F.C. Clifford Maughan

who parachuted into the garden of this

house at approximately 01.45 hours

on the morning of 6th June 1944

He was taken prisoner by a ...

The Beginning of Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service

One of the nation's earliest cooperative

extension offices was established in 1910

in Schellsburg, Bedford County, with A.B.

Ross as county agent. The innovative

program sought to educate farmers about

agricultural science to increase their

productivity. County extension offices are

now found throughout the U.S. Farmers and

other ...

Time Capsule

In commemoration of Hays Centennial - 1967

Plastic capsule buried May, 1967 - to be exhumed 2067

Buried 10' 0" below this marker.

The Time Capsule is to provide historical reference on the progress of Kansas family farmers working with the federal government ...

Monarch of the Plains

Herds of 60 million buffalo once roamed the prairie until reduced to 300 and near extinction. They were the basis of Indian economy; food for the emigrant, railroad worker and soldier.

Marker is on Bypass U.S. 183, on the right when ...

Wild Rose Pass

In early days the Indian trail through these mountains followed the gorge below known as Limpia Canyon. To avoid the floods travellers over the San Antonio - El Paso Road, emigrants, U.S. troops and supply trains, and the mail cose ...

Pimmit Run and Chain Bridge

Pimmit Run is a stream that runs from the Pimmit Hills neighborhood in Falls Church and joins the Potomac River immediately south of Chain Bridge. The mouth of Pimmit Run provided Native Americans and settlers access to fresh water and ...