Racine County Historical Museum

Erected in 1904 with a Carnegie grant and the efforts of dedicated local people, this Bedford stone structure was Racine’s first specifically designed library building. The architect was John Mauran of St. Louis and the builder was A.H. Harcus of ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In a log cabin which stood here, Frances Eliza Hodgson, newly from England with her family, spent the winter of 1865. She helped support her family with music lessons, also opened a "Select Seminary for Young People." Here she met ...

Blind Rock

Legendary place of Native American

rendezvous and ambushes

English-French frontier boundry

colonial landmark and crossroads.

Marker is at the intersection of Lake George Road (U.S. 9) and Montray Road, on the right when traveling north on Lake George Road.

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The River Batteries

C.S.A.

The River Batteries

Captain Joseph Dixon (Killed)

Captain Jacob Culbertson

CommanderThe lower water battery established at this point mounted eight 32-pounder guns and one 10-inch columbiad. Company A, 50th Tennessee, under Captain T.W. Beaumont, manned the four guns on the right, and Company ...

Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse

Foster & Granger, architects

Chicago Landmark

The Powerhouse is the best-surviving building associated with the Chicago and North Western Railway, one of the city’s most prominent historic railroads. While a utilitarian building, this grandly-scaled example of the Beaux-Arts architectural style ...

Madonna of the Trail

(East Face) N.S.D.A.R. Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days.

(North Face) This the first military road in America beginning at Rock Creek and Potomac River, Georgetown, Maryland, leading our pioneers across this continent to the Pacific.

"Little Lord Fauntleroy"

The author of this book, probably the most famous of her several works, spent her first winter in the United States in a small house which stood about 250 yards south. Besides this juvenile work, she was the author of ...

Reconstructed Powder Magazine

The original magazine was a one room, double-wall building constructed of logs. It was made bombproof by a thick earth covering. The inner space was about 11 feet square. It held 1000 rounds for the guns of the Lower River ...

Five Mile Run

In French and Indian War

this run was avoided

because of fear of attack

by hidden Indians. Name

changed to Meadow Run 1808.

Marker is on Lake George Road (U.S. 9), on the right when traveling south.

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Kenosha Veterans Memorial

For God and Country

Dedicated

in grateful tribute to

those who served in the

Armed Forces of the

United States

"Greater love hath

no man than this.

That a man lay

down his life

for his friends"

John 15:13

Duties are ours

Events are God's

May 30, 1955

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