Centerville United Methodist Church

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Ben Johnson and his wife, "Miss Ellie," attended the DuBose Methodist Church located six miles away until they were caught in a rainstorm that frightened

their horse. In an attempt to get a church nearer home, Ben Johnson and Dick ...

Walnut Street Bridge

This bridge, completed in 1890, is the oldest surviving structure to have spanned the Susquehanna River and is one of the largest multi-span, truss bridges ever fabricated by the nationally significant Phoenix Bridge Company. It is also the oldest metal ...

The People’s Bridge

Landmark Era - Since 1972

Built to pre-automobile specifications before the turn of the 20th Century, the People's Bridge by mid century earned the nickname, "Old Shakey," because of the noisy vibrations of its cast-iron superstructure under an ever-increasing volume of ...

Prairie Des Mascoutins / Damascus

Front Text : "Prairie Des Mascoutins"

In 1742, a tribe of Kickapoo requested permission from Montreal's Governor to move to a Mascoutin village on both sides of the river here. French "Coureurs de Bois" traders named the wide floodplain "La Prairie ...

Miss Doherty's College Preparatory School for Girls

Mary Harlan Doherty was born in 1862 in the Dayton Street neighborhood of Cincinnati. She graduated from Woodward High School in 1880 at a time when women were not expected to go to college, but rather to marry, raise ...

Grant County (Indiana) Vietnam War Memorial

Erected for Grant County

Vietnam Veterans

[obelisk front]

Grant County KIA’s

William McKinley Berry • Mark Ryan Black • Ralph W. Blackerby • Rollie Lee Bolden • Emmett Lee Booth • Steve Brandenburg • William F. Clover, Jr. • Dale William Coldiron • Donald ...

Salmon Portland Chase

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Salmon Portland Chase, a renowned lawyer and statesman, was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 13, 1808. He came to Ohio in 1820 and attended Cincinnati College (1822-23). Chase returned to New Hampshire and graduated from ...

Historic Scajaquada Creek

In the old navy yard at the mouth of this stream five vessels were reconditioned for Commodore Perry's fleet during 1813

Marker can be reached from Nottingham Court.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hasty Additions in Wartime

When World War II began in Europe in 1939, the U.S. Army numbered 175,000 men. By the time of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the army had swelled to over 1.5 million. To accommodate this influx, temporary wooden “mobilization” building ...

The Stoneman Raid

In July, 1864, Union forces under Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, closed in on Atlanta. Finding its fortifications “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest,” Sherman sought to force its evacuation by sending Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman, with ...