The Town of Waelder

In 1875 an 1876, when the Galveston Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad built through Gonzales County, this town was laid out to serve as a shipping point for the surrounding agricultural and ranching area. Hopkinsville, a thriving community five miles ...

Trail of Death

On September 11, 1838, about 850 Potawatomi Indians camped at Pleasant Run, having traveled 17 miles that day on the forced removal from Indiana to Kansas.

Marker is at the intersection of County Route N 800 W and County Route W ...

U.S. Coast Guard Memorial

[Northwest face]:

[Coast Guard Emblem:]

Semper Paratus - 1790

United States Coast Guard

World War

[Northeast face]:

Officers and Men, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, sunk by enemy submarine in Bristol Channel, September 26, 1918, when all on board were lost:

[List of 115 Names]

“Thy Way ...

Trail of Death

September 10, 1838

Here at Chief Winamac's old village, about 900 Potawatomi Indians camped on their forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. A child and a man died here during the encampment. They also left behind 24 too sick to continue.

Marker ...

The Monument and the General

Nathanael Greene’s statue, the largest in the park, looks like the monument of a victor. But by the end of the day the British had forced him from the field.

The fighting did not go according to plan for either side. ...

Concord Methodist Church

The oldest Methodist Church west of the Oconee River, Concord, first called Victory, was established in 1810, when William B. Pritchard and Thomas Johnston built a little log church on the Stage Coach Line from Milledgeville to Athens, on land ...

“The Strongest Line of Works Ever Constructed”

The Breakthrough Trail

The main line of entrenchments behind you was only one part of the entire defensive network established here by the Confederates. Southern soldiers removed all the trees in front of their works to create a clear field of ...

The Old Alpine Trail

Here began

The Old Alpine Trail

used by

the British troops who

first appeared in the

State of New Jersey

on the stormy night

of Nov. 18, 1776 in the

unsuccessful effort of

Cornwallis to intercept

Washington on his way

to Trenton.

Marker can be reached from Alpine Approach Road.

Courtesy ...

The Big Woods

When the first explorers came to what became Minnesota, they found a land with three very different personalities. To the north were the great forests of white pine and other conifers that later attracted armies of lumberjacks and made Minnesota ...

Trail of Death

Site of the first death of an Indian child on forced removal of Potawatomies Sept. 5, 1838.

Marker is on Indiana Route 25 south of County Route E 400 S, on the right when traveling south.

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