Flambeau Trail – Turtle Flambeau Flowage Dam

Iron County Heritage Area

The Turtle Flambeau Flowage was born in 1926, when the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company built a dam on the Flambeau River, downstream from its confluence with the Turtle River improving its usefulness for power-generating and papermaking ...

The Mammoth Consolidated Gold Mine

Mammoth’s famous gold mining boom began in 1877 and ended abruptly in 1881 when the Mammoth Mining Company’s property was sold at a sheriff’s sale. Miners have contributed to prospect and mine Red Mountain on a small scale to this ...

Snowfield Monument

"Franciscan Fathers"

October 13, 1776: "We set out southward from the small river and campsite of Nuestra Senora del Pilar ("Our Lady of the Pillar" – Kolob Canyon of Zion Canyon National Park)…" and…"We traveled a league and a half to ...

Old Sterrett Cemetery

“Cedars of Beulah Land Burial Ground”

This cemetery was established around 1841. The oldest marked grave is for Polly Webster (1822-May 3, 1841), daughter of Beulah Land founder Henley Webster, born February 5, 1805 in Anderson County, SC and died February ...

Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham

The City and County

of Effingham

erect and dedicate

this monument to the

memory of

Lord Thomas Howard

Earl of Effingham

who with courage and loyalty

to his principles

of freedom and justice

resigned his commission as

deputy marshal of

His Majesty George III

of England

rather than draw his sword

against the American Colonies

in ...

Dr. Charles M. Wright House

Built in 1889

has been entered in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Jackson Street and Main Street, on the right when traveling west on Jackson Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Baird’s Div., 14th A.C.

Aug. 30, 1864. Davis’ 14th A. C. [US], having moved from Red Oak to Shoal Creek Ch., was divided into 2 columns when marching therefrom to the Fayetteville Rd. (Highway 139). Morgan’s & Carlin’s divs. went S. E. by a ...

Convict Camp and Wagon Road

In 1915 prisoners from the Utah State Prison camped here among these very rocks. They were detailed to build a wagon road up the fault, directly east from here. Remnants of the road can still bee seen with its lava ...

"The Cradle"

Building in which in 1891 Misses Betty Ballinger and Hally Bryan founded the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a society for historical preservation.

This Victorian structure was then library of "The Oaks," family home of the founders, who were ...

Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey

This is the birthplace and early home of Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, South Haven's most distinguished son.

As a very young man he became interested in plants and trees. This interest and knowledge constantly grew until he became the nation's highest ...