Duck Creek Aqueduct

An aqueduct is a bridge carrying one body of water over another. The Duck Creek Aqueduct was originally built in 1843 to convey the canal over Duck Creek 16 feet below. Flood waters in 1847 destroyed the aqueduct, which was ...

The Story of This Land

In 1895, the year of Grayslake's incorporation, Charles F. Kuebker bought the land that encompasses Central Park from Charles Whitehead. He brought his wife and young son to Grayslake the following year. They tilled the soil and raised animals. In ...

St. Andrew Church Bell

Bell History

The original bell from St. Andrew Episcopal church heralded many events in the life of the church and community. Usually an altar boy would be assigned the task of pulling the long rope. It was rung before regular services. ...

Fort Clark Historic District

Established 1852

Fort Clark Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior listed December 6, 1979

Marker is at the intersection of Fort Clark Road and Mackenzie Road, on the ...

Zelda Fitzgerald

1900-1948

Writer, artist, Jazz Age

icon; wife of F. Scott

Fitzgerald. On Mar. 10,

1948, died in Highland

Hospital fire, ¼ mi. S.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (North Carolina Route 1791) and WT Weaver Blvd, on the right when ...

Trackside Buildings

This 1870s view of Horseshoe Curve looks north past the rubble-strewn trackside area where you are standing, to show a coal hopper and a track along the hillside. These are evidence of coal mining activity along Kittanning Run. The shanty ...

Washington Afro-American Newspaper Office Building

1800 11th Street, NW

The independent weekly Afro-American, one of the most enduring Black newspapers in the country was founded in Baltimore in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr. The Washington Afro-American began publication in 1932, and operated from this ...

The Road to Fort Duquesne

This memorial was erected in 1907

by the Society of Colonial Wars

in the District of Columbia

to mark the road over which

on April 14, 1755

a division of the British Army

under General Braddock

marched on its ...

The Line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection

The line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection formed after the British Troops landed on the seventeenth of June extended in this direction to Mystic River

Marker is on Bunker Hill St just west of Polk St, on the right when ...

The Builders, the Captains and the Seamen of Thomaston Ships

This flagpole was erected

as a memorial to the

Builders, the Captains and

the Seamen of

Thomaston Ships

by those who take pride

in their accomplishments

Dedicated July 4, 1950

Marker is at the intersection of Knox Street and Main Street (U.S. 1), in the median on Knox ...