Powers Bluff

The Indians named Powers Bluff Tah-qua-kik, and was for some years the home of three tribes of Indians; the Chippewa, the Potawatomi, and the Winnebago. Local historians say that some of the Potawatomi lived here as early as 1866. They ...

Forest City Confederate Memorial

To the memory of

Capt. H.D. Lee

and Company D 16th Regiment,

who were the first to leave from

Rutherford County for the

War Between The States

June 3rd, 1861, and

Capt. J.B. Eaves

and Company I 50th Regiment,

who left in April 1862.

Both companies departed ...

Site of John Hinkel Livery Stable, 1900

Berkeley Farm Creamery Complex

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1998

By 1900, downtown Berkeley had developed around Shattuck Avenue, its main street. On this site, owned by John Hinkel, stood a brick livery stable run by John Fitzpatrick, the early operator of ...

Geological History of Powers Bluff

Powers Bluff is a worn down peak of an ancient mountain range which once covered northern Wisconsin. In geology it is known as monadnock. It is comprised almost entirely of solid metamorphic rock called quartzite.

Powers Bluff originated eons ago at ...

22nd Michigan Infantry

!st Brigade - 1st Division

[Front Side of Marker]

22nd Michigan - Infantry

1st Brigade - 1st Division - Reserve Corps.

[Reverse Side of Marker]

Michigan

To her Twenty-Second Regiment of Infantry

Commanded

By Colonel Heber LeFavour, Lieut. Colonel William ...

Historic Falls Portage

Under Four Nations

Portage Road, constructed on an old Indian trail,

was used to transport goods around the falls from

the Lewiston Landing to Fort Schlosser on the

upper river. It held the key to governing the

entire Great Lakes area and the

Mississippi-Ohio valleys. The ...

Rutherford County Memorial

In (sic) memorian

Rutherford County boys who made the

supreme sacrifice

[List of names]

Marker is on E. Main Street 0.1 miles east of Mill Street, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

U.S. Air Force Atlas Missile Site

The Atlas-F ICBM (operational 1961-65) was an important component of national defense during the Cold War. Twelve Atlas sites, one located half a mile west, were manned by the 551st Strategic Missile Squadron, Lincoln Air Force Base.

On November 22, 1964, ...

Defending the Fort

Clearly one of the Fort’s entrances, this “sally port” was probably

needed here to rush men and perhaps cannons out to defend

against an assault up the ravine behind you. This was the only

place a body of hostile infantry could gather for ...

Site of the Kellogg School

Berkeley History

An apple orchard, two houses, and a tailor shop once occupied this block. In 1879, six local businessmen and a university professor financed the purchase of part of the block near Oxford Street as the site for one of ...