Old Federal Road

Burnt Corn

Burnt Corn, Monroe County's earliest settlement, became the crossroads of the Great Pensacola Trading Path and The Federal Road. Settler Jim Cornells returned from Pensacola in 1813, finding his home destroyed and his wife kidnapped by a Creek Indian ...

Site of Recruiting Tent

Site Of

Recruiting Tent

For

19th Conn

Vol. Infy

August 1862

Marker is at the intersection of East Street (Connecticut Route 202) and North Street (Connecticut Route 63), on the left when traveling west on East Street.

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Fort McArthur

About 3 miles west - site of

Erected 1812, by Colonel Duncan McArthur, as one of the forts along the line of General Hull's march against the British headquarters at Detroit.

Marker is on North Detroit Street (U.S. 68) near East Franklin ...

Port Chester World War I Monument

In Everlasting

Memory Of The

Living And The

Dead Who Served

Their Country

In The World War

[ Five benches surround the monument. A total of 1,021 names ares listed on the bronze plaques. The following 25 names have a ...

Mary Kate Patterson Davis Hill Kyle

(1844-1931)

Heroine of the South, worked with Coleman's Scouts and Sam Davis to spy in the LaVergne-Nolensville-Nashville area. When a teenager, she smuggled vital information and supplies through Union lines. Mrs. Kyle was buried in the Confederate Circle in Mt. Olivet ...

Astronauts of the Shuttle Columbia

In honor of these

astronauts who perished

serving their country in space

on the Shuttle Columbia,

February 1, 2003

Rick D. Husband, Commander

Wiliam C. McCool, Pilot

Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialist

David Brown, Mission Specialist

Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist

Laurel Blair Salton Clark,

Mission Specialist

Ilan Ramon (Israel), Mission Specialist

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Santa Rita Copper Mines

Copper has been mined here since 1804. For five years, development by Francisco Manuel Elguea resulted in some 6,000,000 pounds of copper being transported annually to Mexico City by mule train. Brief periods of activity were halted by Apache opposition ...

Chicago River

This river originally flowing eastward from the prairie home lands of the Potawatomi and other Indian tribes into Lack Michigan, linked the waters of the Atlantic, the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes with those of the Illinois, the Mississippi ...

The Lost Order

Shrouded in a Cloak of Mystery

After crossing the Potomac River early in September 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee reorganized the Army of Northern Virginia into three separate wings. On September 9, he promulgated his campaign strategy - to divide ...

Furnace Hill

Center of Industry for new town of Sheffield. Five blast furnaces with 75 ft stacks build 1886~1895 1/2 mile west. Promoted by E. W. Cole and E. Ensley. Iron ore and limestone from Franklin Co., coke from Walker Co. and ...