Camp at Sanderson

This site was used by both Union and Confederate soldiers as a camp during the campaign of 1864. The camp was used as a Confederate supply depot but it was abandoned on February 9, 1864. From the 9th to the ...

Dean Smith

Emporia, Kansas is Dean Smith's birthplace. After completing school in Emporia and Topeka, he came to the University of Kansas where he played under Coach Phog Allen. Dean played on the National Championship team, the 1952 team which beat St. ...

General Matthew D. Ector

Ector County

County Named for Texas Confederate

General Matthew D. Ector

1822-1879

Enlisted 1861. Lieutenant 3rd Texas Cavalry. Fought in Arkansas, Missouri and Indian territory. As colonel led 14th Texas Cavalry Kentucky invasion. Made brigadier general 1862 to command famed Ector's brigade in Tennessee ...

Potawatomi ‘Trail of Death’ Route

Indiana to Kansas, September 4 - November 4, 1838

The 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe on this site was decisive, leading to the loss of their homelands and the removal of Indians from Indiana.

At Gunpoint, about 850 Potawatomi passed this location on ...

Where Rochambeau Crossed the Housatonic River

1781 * 1954

Near this point

Le Comte de Rochambeau

crossed the Housatonic River

leading the French Army

enroute to victory at Yorktown.

Marker is on Interstate 84 (Interstate 84), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Michigan Colored Regiment

The First Michigan Colored Regiment was organized at Camp Ward, which originally stood at this location. Formed from August through October 1863, a year of draft riots and protests against the war, this Negro regiment consisted entirely of volunteers. During ...

The North Church / An Teampall Thuaidh

A 13th century reconstruction on the foundations of an earlier monastic building, used as a small parochial church after the monastery at Monasterboice had come to an end. It remains little of architectural interest. The east windows and most of ...

McCormick County Confederate Monument

1861-1865

[East]:

In Honor of the

Confederate Soldiers

from

McCormick County

This monument perpetuates

the memory of those who,

true to the instincts of

their birth, faithful to the

teachings of their fathers,

constant in their love for

the South, offered their

lives and fortunes in the

performance of their duty.

[West]:

Presented by

McCormick County Historical

Society ...

Round Tower / An Cloigtheach

Round Tower

The round tower was the Irish reaction to the Norse raids on monasteries in the 10th/11th century A.D. These tapering buildings, over 100 feet high, served as watch-towers, belfries, repositories for church valuables and as refuges for the community. ...

The Residents of White Springs

Florida's native Timucuan Indians lived for hundreds of generations in what is now north Florida and southeast Georgia. Beginning in the 1580s, they were organized into mission villages by Spanish Franciscan priests. While exploitation and epidemics caused native populations to ...