Frank D. Everts

1851

Established first express and mail service from Marysville

1854

Established express office in Rabbit Creek

1855

The addition of banking to the express business

1857

The town is named La Porte after his home town in Indiana

Marker is on Main Street east of Church Street, ...

Eli Lilly and The Civil War ( 1861--1865 )

The year 1861 would prove to be a very eventful year for the young Eli Lilly. On January 31, 1861, a marriage license was issued to the 22-year-old Eli Lilly and his local sweetheart, Emily Lemon. Shortly after his marriage, ...

The Old Bay Road

An ancient Indian trail. The Post Road between Massachusetts Bay and Narragansett Bay.

The first highway in Easton.

The Old Bay Road Historical District

Recorded in the National Register of Historic Places

U.S. Department of Interior

National Park Service

May 22nd 1972

Marker is on ...

Badger State Planing Mill At Lake Hallie

Badger State Lumber Company

This site is near the location of the first sawmill called the "Blue Mills" built just north of Lake Hallie, built over a two year period 1842-1843 by Steven McCann and the brothers Simon and George Randall. ...

Forester A. Sondley

1857 ~ 1931

Historian, lawyer, and

bibliophile. Gave to

Asheville the Sondley

Reference Library. His

home is 2.7 mi. north.

Marker is at the intersection of Tunnel Road (U.S. 70) and Beverly Road, on the right when traveling west on Tunnel Road. ...

Providence (Water Street)

The site of an 18th century seaport village where seafaring merchants participated in the African slave trade. In the 20th century this port was used by Cape Verdeans who came to live in America.

Marker is on South Water Street, on ...

The Puritan and the Indian

Daniel Chester French

Completed 1902

Restored 2002 by Granoff Associates

Daniel Chester French is best known as the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial and Concord's Minute Man. This statuary portrays the two cultures that defined New England history.

Marker is on Dorrance Street, on ...

Thomas A. Doyle

Eighteen years mayor of Providence

Pioneer in Urban Renewal

Marker is on Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Springport (MI) and Vicinity Civl War Memorial

In memory of our soldiers and sailors of Springport and vicinity 1861 - 1865

Erected A.D. 1915

Vicksburg

Shiloh

Antietam

Marker is on Eaton Rapids Road (Michigan Route 99), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Indian Village Site

This spot, in 1833, was the site of an Indian village under the Potawatomi chief Kenozhoym, or “Lake Pickerel.” The village was located near a clear spring, at the foot of a steep bluff, atop which were more wigwams and ...