Canadian Airmen Monument

Panel 1:

Per Arua Ad Astra

In Memory of our Canadian

Airmen who fought in the

Skies to preserve freedom

and order in the world.

Panel 2:

Canadian Airmen Awarded the Victoria Cross

World War I:

William Avery Bishop

Alan Arnett McLeod

William George Barker

World War II:

Andrew Charles Mynarski

David Ernest Hornell

Ian ...

Hayden Hotel

Callahan Ranch Stage Station

Oregon Trail

1852 - 1887

Marker is on State Highway 3, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Richard Colbert Mason

Engineer · Scientist · Inventor

Library registered of 19 United States Patents, Inventor of many devises [sic] for the oil industry. Engineer for the U.S.A. during the World War-2. He conceived the idea of Christ’s statue atop Devils Tower which he ...

Steamboats and Railroads

Lincoln traveled to Quincy by stagecoach in 1854 after crossing the Illinois River at Naples. Lincoln's first documented visit was to support the Congressional candidacy of Archibald Williams and to attack the Kansas- Nebraska Act and its author, Stephen A. ...

Captain Richard C. Mason

PeaRidge Battlefield Arkansas 1862

Near this monument March 8, 1862, Captain Richard C. Mason of the 16th Arkansas Cavalry and [sic] was severly [sic] wounded and his horse killed. Mason was rescued by Frank Colbert a Chickasaw. Mason served for the ...

Caney High School Stadium

Constructed by

The United States Government

Works Progress Administration

August 1938 – October 1939

First Night Game September 29, 1939

Caney 39 Altoona 0

Stadium Dedication October 27, 1939

Caney 19 Sedan 0

Attendance 1600

Total Cost $52,370.64

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Sponsored by

The Board of Education

A Works Progress Administration Project

1938

Marker is on 9th ...

Lincoln and Agriculture

Agricultural life has defined the very essence of Hancock County from the earliest days of its Anglo-American settlement. Lincoln, however, seemed indifferent to agriculture. Once he left his father's home, Lincoln never farmed again. But he came to respect the ...

The "Old Jail"

In the old Carthage jail which stands one block south of here, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Prophet and Patriarch of the Mormon Church were killed by a mob on June 27, 1844. Two years later the Mormons withdrew from Illinois, ...

Holsey Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Side 1:

In 1884, a group of black citizens banded together to organize a church. They appealed to the Commissioners of Columbus, Georgia, and obtained a lot on Eighth Street. The first church was completed in 1886 and called ...

Traveling to Beardstown

Travel in Abraham Lincoln's time was time-consuming, dirty, and usually downright uncomfortable. On many of his trips, Lincoln traveled by train to Meredosia. From there he had the choice of a steamboat or a bone-jarring ride in a carriage over ...