Thar’s Gold in Them Hills!

You might think the discovery of gold led to instant success, but that was not the case.

Early miners lacked the capital to develop the mines. The Sierra Buttes Gold Mining Co. Ltd. bought the mines in the 1860’s and developed ...

Keen Kutter Building

Built 1905 - 1906

Built as Wholesale Hardware Building

at a cost of $250,000

for Morton-Simmons Hardware Co.

featuring Keen Kutter Tools

and Equipment

Architect: Mauran, Russell and Garden,

St. Louis, Missouri

Builder: Wurster Construction Company,

St. Louis, Missouri

Renovated: 1996 as Hotel at OldTown

Historic and Current Address:

830 East First

Marker ...

Coleman Co. Inc. Factory Building

Built 1936 - 1937

Housed Coleman's Machine Shop

Historic Address: 253 N. Mead

Current Address: 255 N. Mead

Marker is on Mead Street near 2nd Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Redoubt Number Four

Built 1778 - 1779

This redoubt, with battery No. 1, was constructed to command the heights above and around the main work at West Point, Fort Putnam, during the American Revolution.

Marker can be reached from Patrick Trail, on the ...

St. Norbert College and The Packers

Packers Heritage Trail

St. Norbert College became the training camp of the Packers in 1958 in an agreement that would become the longest such partnership in NFL history. Father Dennis M. Burke, then president of the college, suggested the arrangement ...

Minshall Laboratory, DePauw University

The early 1930's was a time for great chemical research productivity at DePauw. It was to this decade that William M. Blanchard, Dean of the University, hired Percy Julian as a research fellow. Blanchard had been Julian’s mentor during his ...

Indiana Asbury - - DePauw University

DePauw University was first named Indiana Asbury University. Within two decades after the founding of Greencastle, the Indiana Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church decided that the time had arrived to establish an institution of higher learning in Indiana. In competition ...

Coleman Lamp and Stove Building

Built 1945 - 1950

Built For Shear Department

Historic Address: 233 Moore Avenue

Current Address: 213 N. Mead

Marker is on Mead Street near 2nd Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Superintendant's Quarters

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior.

Marker is on Washington Road, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

National Historic Landmark - Kolomoki Mounds State Park

Memorializing Prehistoric Georgia Civilization

A large Indian mound complex built about A.D. 200-600 is the centerpiece of Kolomoki Mounds State Park. The largest mound is 325 feet long, 200 feet wide and 57 feet high. This ceremonial area was at the ...