Beecher Hall

Illinois College, founded in 1829, was one of the first institutions of higher learning chartered in Illinois. Before the Civil War, Illinois College was a center for the antislavery movement in the state. Beecher Hall, the original building of ...

Dr. Richard Eells House

Dr. Richard Eells built this home, now located within the Downtown Quincy Historic District, in 1835. Eells built only the front portion of the house as it stands today, four blocks from the Mississippi River. He lived here until ...

John Hossack House

The John Hossack House was built in 1854 for businessman John Hossack. A Scottish born immigrant, Hossack came to Ottawa from Chicago, where he had done contract work on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In Ottawa, Hossack was engaged ...

Jordan House

James Cunningham Jordan, one of Iowa’s most influential early settlers built this house, probably in phases, between 1850 and 1870. Jordan was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 1813 to John and Agnes Cunningham Jordan. He began raising ...

Tabor Antislavery Historic District

The town of Tabor in southwestern Iowa played a significant role in the 1850s as a center for the western antislavery movement. Tabor found itself in a strategic position to impact the future of slavery in the West. The ...

John Brown Cabin

John Brown (1800--1859) came to Osawatomie from his farm in upstate New York in October 1855 after three of his sons, who had arrived earlier in the year, appealed to him for help against proslavery forces in the area. ...

Lewis and Clark Pass

On June 30^th, 1806, Lewis and Clark stopped at Traveler’s Rest while on their eastward journey home. The leaders had agreed to split the expedition at this point in order to maximize the range of their return explorations.

Captain Lewis traveled ...

Camp Disappointment

In early July 1806, the Corps of Discovery split into two main groups at Traveler’s Rest, near Missoula, Montana. Captain Meriwether Lewis’ main mission was to determine the northern reaches of the Marias River. Lewis and his detachment ...

Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail-Trail

Just west of bustling downtown Jacksonville, the Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail-Trail, one of north Florida's oldest, traverses a rural setting of hardwood uplands, wetlands and pine flatwoods. A dense tree canopy shelters much of the nearly 15-mile paved path, providing habitat for ...

The Metaline Mining District

The Metaline Mining District, or Metalines for short, is located in northeastern Washington along the Pend Oreille River. Although the district’s existence was always based on the rich ores—quartz, lead, silver—found there in the late nineteenth century, its mid-twentieth-century transformation ...