Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park

This park, the gift of a grateful people

is dedicated

to the memory of

Theodore Roosevelt

twenty-sixth President of the United States

Born New York City 1858 – Died Oyster Bay 1919

“We here in America hold in our hands

the hope of the world the ...

The Nelson Column, Montreal

North face :

In memory of the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Nelson Duke of Bronte who terminated his career of Naval Glory in the memorable Battle of Trafalgar on the 21st of Oct 1806 after inculcating by signal a maxim that ...

The Blowing Engine Room

Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark

The blast furnace required a tremendous amount of air - about two tons for every ton of iron produced. These three rooms, known collectively as the blower building, house the equipment used to pump air to ...

The Dam

As a boat approached the canal traveling south on the Catawba River, the patroon, or river boat pilot, first saw the diversion dam. The dam consisted of piles of loose stone on the river bottom. The dam projected from the ...

The Mississippi River Parkway:

First Project

The first 5-mile-long section of the Great River Road project, or the Mississippi River Parkway as it was originally named, was built near here in 1953 and extend­ed east across the Black River. Eventually, the Great River Road would ...

The Depot at Beaver Dam

The first railroad depot at Beaver Dam was built ca. 1840 to serve the farmers of Hanover and Louisa counties. Its strategic location during the Civil War made it a target of many Union raids. The July 20, 1862, raid ...

Sounds of the byway...moccasins and tears.

Frontier Military Scenic Byway

Potawatomi Tribal members were marched from Indiana in 1838 to be relocated on Indian Territory lands. The march was long and arduous. Many Potawatomi, especially children and the elderly, died of illness along the way. Those who ...

The Hampton Roads Golf And Country Club

First in Virginia & One of the First 100 in the Country

The Hampton Roads Golf and Country Club was established in 1893 on undeveloped land purchased for speculation by Mary Frances Armstrong in 1888. This site today would extend from ...

Sounds from the past...hoof beats and heartbeats.

Frontier Military Scenic Byway

Pro- and anti-slavery forces made their way to this area on horseback and on foot in the fight over whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. Skirmishes, scuffles and screams could be heard ...

Luther Parker Cemetery

Dedicated to Muskego’s most illustrious pioneer and first European settler, Luther Parker, who brought his wife Alletta and five children to Muskego by horse and wagon in 1836. Luther Parker was one of several responsible for secession of Waukesha County ...