Frances Rappaport Horwich

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Frances Rappaport Horwich was born in Ottawa on July 16, 1907, the daughter of Sam Rappaport, an Austrian immigrant who operated a general store, and Rosa Gratz Rappaport, a Russian immigrant. The youngest of six children, she attended the ...

McCurdy - Sears Building

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Built in 1920 for financier and philanthropist William H. McCurdy (1853-1930), president of Old National Bank. Constructed of reinforced concrete with poured concrete floors, employing architectural developments newly pioneered for industrial buildings. Building leased by Sears, Roebuck and Company ...

Trades along the Battle Road

Minute Man Nat’l Hist Park, Mass

In 1775, the house before you was the home of Job and Anna Brooks, and their children Asa and Anna. Across the street was the home of cousin Joshua Brooks and his family.

From the late ...

Passenger Pigeon Monument

Dedicated to the last Wisconsin Passenger Pigeon shot at Babcock, Sept. 1899. This species became extinct through the avarice and the thoughtlessness of man.

Marker can be reached from Long Valley Road ½ mile west of State Park Lane.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Old Swan Tavern

Site of old Swan Tavern where lived and died Jack Jouett, whose heroic ride saved Mr. Jefferson, the Governor, and the Virginia Assembly from capture by Tarleton June 1781.

Marker is on Park Street north of Jefferson Street, on the right ...

Graves' Battery

The Confederate outer defenses, in February 1862, formed a 3-mile broken line around Fort Donelson and Dover. The Confederates cut trees in front of the entrenchments to construct an abitis, a formidable obstacle to the enemy. Field artillery batteries took ...

Sheriff's Residence and Jail

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Vanderburgh County formed, Evansville named county seat 1818. This castle-like structure was completed 1890 for county’s fourth jail and second sheriff’s residence. Stone exterior has step-gables, projecting turrets, crenellated roof lines, simulated portcullis, and central, rounded tower. Tunnel ...

57th Illinois Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

57th Illinois Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was in reserve here from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 6, 1862. It then moved to the left and was engaged ...

Columbus Grove Municipal Pool

The construction of Putnam County's first public swimming pool helped Columbus Grove weather the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Village of Columbus Grove planned the pool to provide much-needed jobs ...

Stone's Battery

Battery K, 1st Missouri Lt. Art. - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

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Stone's Battery

"K" 1st MO. Lt. Art., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, with two 10 pdr. and two 20 pdr. Parrott guns, was in action here from 9 a.m. ...