North Lake Methodist Church

The Reverend Charles Glenn organized the first Methodist class here in 1836, and for the next ten years the group met in the home of his brother, John. In 1846 the brothers presented the congregation with a building which served ...

Adjutant's Quarters (Quarters #20)

Erected during the 1873-1875 expansion of Fort Clark to accommodate and support an entire regiment, this structure differs from other quarters on the line in that it is a single dwelling rather than a duplex. The Fifth Regiment of the ...

National Association for Music Education

MENC: The National Association for Music Education was founded on this corner in the Westminster Presbyterian Church on April 12, 1907, during a meeting of music supervisors from fourteen states. The meeting was organized by Philip Cady Hayden, Music Supervisor ...

Fort Clark Guardhouse

Established in 1852, Fort Clark was manned by varying troop strengths over the years. This guardhouse was built in the 1870s during a period of fort expansion. A new stockade was built in 1942 to relieve overcrowding, and the guardhouse ...

Dutch in Michigan

On February 9, 1847, the Reverend Albertus C. Van Raalte and a band of Hollanders founded the city of Holland. Within two years the other four original colonies--Graafschap, Zeeland, Vriesland, Overisel--had also been established. Plagued by illness and not accustomed ...

The Island / The Flamingo Club

(side one)

The Island

The Island, once accessible only by footbridges, was the center of life at Idlewild from the 1910s into the 1960s. Early advertisements for the resort described Island Park as having a beautiful bathing beach and a ...

Cypress-Davis Methodist Episcopal Church

Named for Cypress Creek and at other times called Davis for the pioneer Davis family, ancestors of the Emerson family of Somerville, this church stood in the Center Point community on land owned now (1996) by James H. Shelton, great-great-grandson ...

St. Johns River and Lake Monroe

Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe in the middle basin of the St. Johns River. The river rises in the marshes of Indian River County and flows slowly north 310 miles to Jacksonville and the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Civil War and Edwin Libby Post No. 16, G.A.R. Memorial

To the memory of those men who claiming Rockland

by birth or by adoption as their home

served in the Army & Navy of the United States

War of 1861-1865

Here stood for many years the home of

Edwin Libby Post No. 16

Grand Army of ...

Palmyra Confederate Monument

Erected to the memory of

Capt. Thomas A. Sidenor

Willis T. Baker

Thomas Humston

Morgan Bixler

John Y. Mc Pheeters

Hiram T. Smith

Herbert Hudson

John M. Wade

Francis M. Lear

Eleazer Lake

Marker is on South Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

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