Dahlgren's Cavalry Raid

In February 1864 a young Union officer, Col. Ulric Dahlgren, joined with Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick to raid Richmond and free Federal prisoners of war. They planned for Kilpatrick's men to attack the city's northern defenses while Dahlgren would ...

Isaac E. Crary House

Michigan's first congressman lived here from the early 1840s until his death in 1854. Located on lots one and two, original plat, lower village, the house was a wedding gift from his father-in-law, Judge Abner Pratt. Arriving here in 1831, ...

Isaac E. Crary and John D. Pierce / State School System

(Front)

When attorney Isaac E. Crary came to Marshall in 1832 from Connecticut, he became fast friends with another transplanted easterner, the Reverend John D. Pierce. Interested in government and education, these two men in 1834-35 planned Michigan's public ...

Dahlgren's Raid

Here Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, Union cavalryman, coming from the north, turned east. Dahlgren, who acted in concert with Kilpatrick, left Stevensburg, Culpeper County, on February 28, 1864, and moved toward the James River, tearing up the Virginia Central Railroad near ...

Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company

The Waukegan Works and North Chicago

The Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company of Worcester, MA. established a wire mill – The Waukegan Works – east of this location along Lake Michigan. The land for its Illinois operation was purchased January 16, ...

The Court House

Powhatan County, Powhatan, Virginia

This Court House

1848-1849 was erected by order of court

in quarterly session entered on

the 6th day of March 1848

whereby for that purpose were appointed commissioners

John W. Nash - Wm. S. Dance

R.F. Graves - Philip St. George Cocke

The First ...

Howard F. Young / Postmasters

(Front)

Howard F. Young (1889-1934), a native of Allegan, designed this Marshall post office building in 1932. Young studied engineering at the University of Michigan and was involved in construction work in Albany, New York, Detroit and Kalamazoo. His ...

Original Architectural Design

Great Lakes History Trail Stop 3

Unlike many military complexes where troops occupied the site before construction, the Great Lakes project was designed and built before training operations began. The architect, Jarvis Hunt of Chicago, varied the design of individual buildings ...

Civil War and Spanish War Memorial

Soldiers

of the Civil War 1861-1865

[and]

Spanish War, 1898-1901.

[Honor Roll of Names]

Rawlins Post No. 35.

Department of Nebraska

Grand Army of the Republic

Organized in

Fraternity, Charity & Loyalty

A.D. 1879

Rawlins Relief Corps No. 92

Auziliary

Grand Army of the Republic

Organized in

Fraternity, Charity & Loyalty

A.D. 1889

Marker is on Grant ...

Katharine Drexel

(1858 - 1955)

Catholic religious founder and missionary. She used her family’s fortune to fund mission schools and churches for Native and African Americans. She professed her vows in 1891, founded her own order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, ...