Clayville Tavern

One-Fourth mile west of this site

Moses Broadwell

A revolutionary soldier, 3rd N.J. Regt.,

built the first brick house in

Sangamon County, 1820-1827.

This Clayville Tavern was built

about 1834 by a son,

John Broadwell,

a soldier of 1812.

Brick for both houses were made ...

The Cleveland School Fire

Erected to the memory of those who lost their lives in the Cleveland School Fire, on the night of May 17, 1923.

Grace Arrants, Age 7 yr.; Ima Arrants, Age 17 yr; Mrs. Floride Brown, Age 47 yr.; Lottie Brown, Age ...

Fairport Harbor Lighthouse

Lighthouse and keeper's dwelling, erected in 1871 to replace the 1825 structures designed by Jonathan Goldsmith. From the time it guided early settlers into the Western Reserve until it was decommissioned in 1925, this station served Great Lakes shipping for ...

Middleburg

Meade's Pipe Creek Plan

On June 29, 1863, Union Gen. George G. Meade ordered the Army of the Potomac to Pipe Creek to counter any move toward Washington or Baltimore by Gen. Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and to ...

Walter Douglas House

Architect: Henry C. Trost

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior.

Built 1907

Courtesy hmdb.org

Corneau & Diller Drug Store

Apothecaries in the mid-19th century carried a surprising variety of drugs and remedies---potassium iodide for rheumatism and syphilis, sulphate of quinine for tooth powder, opium elixir for toothache, and camphor for an aphrodisiac. "Cure-all" patent medicines were popular. Dr. ...

White Sulphur

Side A

Large Federal fish hatcheries are located here. A mile east on Howard's Creek the armies of North and South fought in 1863. At "Oakhurst" three miles north the first golf club in America was organized in 1884.

Side B

Twelve Presidents, ...

Royal Gorge Bridge

Highest suspension bridge in the world

Completed in seven months - Dedicated Dec. 7, 1929

Chief Engineer George Cole

Consulting Engineer O.K. Peck

This property has been placed on

National Register of Historic Places

By

U.S. Department of Interior

Modernization of bridge to present day

safety and engineering standards ...

Sharpshooter

The rifleman was the "sniper" of the

Patriot forces. Instead of a rather

inaccurate smoothbore musket, his

rifle had spiral grooves in the barrel

that tightly gripped the lead ball. It was

slow to load but had great accuracy.

Marker can be reached from South Cambridge ...

Leeton Forest

Half a mile east is the site of Leeton Forest, latter-day home of Charles Lee, Attorney General in Washington's and Adams' cabinets, 1795-1801. The tract was patented by Thomas Lee, of Stratford, in 1718 and descended to his son, Richard ...