Kewaunee Marsh Arsenic Spill Area

Why is the fence here?

The fence is to limit access to a contaminated area. In the early days the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) was contacted by a hunter that an area within the boundaries of the wildlife refuge ...

Washburn, The Monolith City

This title was given back in 1892 when Frederick Prentice, president of the Prentice Brownstone Co. of Wisconsin, offered to supply a huge brownstone monolith for the Wisconsin Exhibit at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. He proposed to furnish ...

Cowboy Cemetery

Marker Front:

On September 12, 1878, the bodies of Reuban Bristow and Fred Clark were found near here. It was believed they had been killed by Northern Cheyenne Indians led by Chief Dull Knife. Bristow and Clark were cowboys hauling salt ...

Dr. Welborn Barton and Louisa Adeline Barton

A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Wellborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carolina to wed ...

Ellerslie

Beauregard’s Headquarters

In 1864, Ellerslie stood in the middle of the Confederate defense line along Swift Creek. On May 9-10, Confederate Gens. Johnson Hagood and Bushrod Johnson, with 4,200 men, contested the advance of a much larger Federal force, composed of ...

Old Salado Graveyard

This burial ground was likely in use about the time a U.S. Post Office was established in Salado Springs in 1852. In 1854 Col. Elijah Sterling C. Robertson purchased a large tract of land north and south of the springs ...

Salado United Methodist Church

In 1854, the Rev. Thomas Gilmore, a Methodist circuit rider, led a revival at Pecan Grove on the north side of Salado Creek. He organized a Methodist church and a Union Sunday school in a small frame building. During the ...

Moultrie

[West Face]:

This Monument represents the high esteem in

which all who love freedom hold Charleston's

native son, William Moultrie

Born November 23, 1730, Moultrie served in

the Royal Assembly from 1752 until 1773. He was

Aide-de-Camp to Governor ...

Intersection of Carolina West Florida, and Savannah Lower Creek

Traditional Indian village site and burial grounds.

Early white settlement and haven for refugee families in 1812 Indian alarms.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 80 and Balls Ferry Road (Georgia Route 112), on the left when traveling east ...

Bank of Washburn

1890

The Bank of Washburn is a unique variation of the Romanesque Revival Style designed by architects Conover & Porter of Ashland, Wisconsin. Built in less than one year, the building was fashioned from brownstone quarried at Houghton Point located north ...