The Liberty Landing

The Liberty Landing, also known as Baxter’s Landing, located at the base of the bluffs one half mile west of Missouri 291 Highway, played a significant role in the history and development of Liberty, Missouri as well as Clay County. ...

The Great Sea Island Storm

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On the night of August 27, 1893, a

huge "tropical cyclone," the largest

and most powerful storm to hit S.C.

until Hurricane Hugo in 1989, made

landfall just E of Savannah, Ga.

With gusts as high as 120 mph and a

storm surge ...

The Land

By 1782, more than a century of settlement and eight years of military occupation had left much of the Hudson River’s waterfront deforested. Nevertheless, the Quartermaster Department, responsible for securing the army’s living quarters, found a suitable site for a ...

The Underground Railroad on University Land

Along Lake Erie, Toledo, Sandusky, Cleveland, Fairport Harbor, and Ashtabula Harbor were major routes from slavery to freedom in Canada. Even though African Americans lived throughout the state, Ohio itself was not really safe. Slavery was sanctioned across the United ...

The Underground Railroad on University Land

Joseph Sullivant, a member of the first Board of Trustees of Ohio State, was known as a “friend of the colored race.” He grew up in Kentucky but developed a distaste for slavery after witnessing a slave auction. Another Ohio ...

The Underground Railroad on University Land

Along Lake Erie, Toledo, Sandusky, Cleveland, Fairport Harbor, and Ashtabula Harbor were major routes from slavery to freedom in Canada. Even though African Americans lived throughout the state, Ohio itself was not really safe. Slavery was sanctioned across the United ...

Theodore A. Penland Rose Garden

This rose garden is dedicated

to the memory of

Theodore A. Penland

1849 – 1950

last Commander-in-Chief of

the Grand Army of the Republic

Plaque presented by The Daughters of Union Veterans and the Woman’s Relief Corps, Auxiliary to

the G.A.R. of Clark County, Washington

Marker is ...

The Badlands

The "badlands," the lower end of Main Street in front of you, earned its reputation through its saloons, brothels, theaters, gambling halls, and opium houses, which provided rowdy entertainment for the largely male population. Out of this district came many ...

The Rock Landing

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Five miles south of this point is the Rock Landing at the head of navigation on the Oconee River and at the junction of the old Indian trading paths leading westward. In 1789 Pres. Washington sent Gen. Benjamin Lincoln here ...

The Land Upon Which We Pray

This property granted for church purposes

by the Lord Proprietors of East Jersey

294 years ago, in the year 1682.

Provision was made in the grant for a

triangle or “gore” for the church.

The first church building, “Old First”

Dutch Reformed Church, was erected in ...