Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

This company was organized on February 2, 1928, when a group of interested citizens met at C. H. Pearson’s Store for the purpose of electing officers. William S. Scarborough was chosen to be the President of the organization, and Willard ...

West Salado Cemetery

Located in an area populated by former slaves following the Civil War, this cemetery dates to the 1870s. The earliest documented grave is that of Jozie Fulbright, who died in 1877, although according to local oral tradition there may be ...

Little Creek Hundred

Originally embraced all lands south of Leipsic Creek and north of Little Creek from Delaware River to Maryland line. In 1869 western half was detached and joined to western half of Duck Creek Hundred to form Kenton Hundred.

Marker is on ...

“Aim, Load, Fire”

This scene features a replica 32-pound cannon that would have been employed here during the 1850s and 1860s. Thirty-two pound refers to the weight of the cannonballs used in this weapon. The soldiers are in the process of sponging the ...

Booe - Inlow - d'Arlier Cultural Center

Prairie / Craftman House

HISTORIC LANDMARKS

OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY, INC.

Award

Presented to

BOOE - INLOW - D'ARLIER

CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

for the restoration

and preservation of the

Prairie / Craftman House

D'Arlier Cultural Center

Built in 1908-9

April 18, 2009

Marker is on North Mill Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Fowler House

Built 1872 by Josiah Fowler, a settler from Tennessee, Confederate veteran, co-editor of "Fowler's Arithmetic", and a college teacher.

Marker is on Interstate 35 Frontage Road north of Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

1851 Marengo Station

Chicago's first railroad, the Galena & Chicago Union, began building westward from Chicago in 1848, through Turner Junction (now West Chicago) to Rockford and Freeport. That railroad later became part of the Chicago & North Western and (in the 1990's) ...

Stede Bonnet / Richard Worley

Near this spot in the autumn of 1718, Stede Bonnet, Notorious "Gentleman Pirate", and twenty nine of his men, captured by Colonel William Rhett, met their just deserts after a trial and charge, famous in American history, by Chief Justice ...

The Elgin & Belvidere Electric Company/Rebirth of the Elgin & Be

Upper:

The Elgin & Belvidere Electric Company

The Elgin & Belvidere interurban line carried passengers and freight between its named endpoints for more than two decades, until growth in private auto ownership, better roads, and the Depression drove the ...

Cold War

World War II ended in 1945 with the surrender of Germany and Japan, but it was an uneasy peace that followed. Although the U.S.S.R. had been America’s ally during the war, after the war, the Soviet Union asserted control over ...