The First Mahkato Memorial Wacipi

This memorial is to honor those Dakota who created the First Mahkato Wacipi in 1972.

The Wacipi is to remember the thirty-eight Dakota executed in Mankato in 1862 and to create a spirit of reconciliation between the people of Mankato and ...

The Sunbury Cemetery

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The plan of Sunbury consisted of three community-owned squares: King's Square, Meeting Square, and Church Square. You are standing in the area that was once

Church Square. This 350 by 350-foot area held the church to the ...

The Trolley Line & Hocker Grove Amusement Park

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

A few years after the closure of Merriam Park, Richard Weaver Hocker developed the second largest amusement park in Merriam. Named Hocker Grove after its founder, the park was established in 1907 and remained in ...

In Memory of the Huntington County Boys who lost their lives in

In Memory of the Huntington County Boys who lost their lives in the Great War.

Charles S. Beard • Homer Glenn Fisher • Elmer Leroy Fysoa • Carl William Grossman • Lewis Alden Haller • Edward Emerson Hasty • Edward D. ...

Founding of the Mission and the Origin of Name

The San Antonio de Padua Mission was founded in San Antonio in 1716 by the Franciscan Father, Antonio Olivares, and after merging with the San Francisco Solano Mission in 1718, it was officially founded as the San Antonio de Valero ...

Library of the American Philosophical Society

Held at Philadelphia

for promoting useful knowledge

begun by Benjamin Franklin 1743

reorganized under its present name

1769

Marker is at the intersection of 5th Street and Chestnut Street on 5th Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Maneuvering to the North Anna River

Unable to defeat Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederates during the Spotsylvania Courthouse battles 8-19 May 1864, Union commander Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's forces maneuvered east and south forcing Lee to abandon his entrenched position. The Confederates moved south along ...

The Commissariat Office

The office for the Commissariat Department was built in 1831 near the government wharf and storehouse. Commissary officials purchased from local contractors the flour, beef, straw and firewood used by troops. They also managed Fort Malden's finances, including the soldiers' ...

The Mississippi River in the Civil War

The Mississippi River in the Civil War

"Whatever nation gets control of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, will control the continent."

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1861

The goal of both the Northern (Federal or Union) and Southern (Confederate) armies was to ...

The American Meridian

To your left is the hemisphere of the Atlantic, the hemisphere of Europe and Africa, of Roman numerals and Indian script, of the Silk Road and the rising sun.

To your right is the hemisphere of the Pacific and ...