The Muskingum River Locks

The Zanesville lock, canal, and dam were part of a series of eleven such built on the Muskingum River from Marietta to Ellis, north of Zanesville, from 1836 to 1841. The improvements made the shallow river navigable by steamboats. The ...

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn at the Foot of Cardiff Hill

(On the left side, when viewed from Main Street): The monument presented to Hannibal

by

Geo. A. Mahan - Ida D. Mahan

and

Dulany Mahan

1925

(On the right side, when viewed from Main Street): Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn at the Foot of Cardiff Hill

Marker ...

Dr. Smither's House

C. 1848

Built by Firman Layman, this house is a prime example of original details from the late 1840's when the Greek Revival architecture was in vogue. Waitman Smithers, the toll collector and later superintendent of the C&D Canal, purchased the ...

Site Of The First Mission In Texas

Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur

Founded in 1682 By Don Antonio de Otermin and Padre

Fray Francisco Ayeta O.F.M.

for the civilizing and Christianizing of the Tigua Indians.

Pueblo Revolt refugees, formally located at La Ysleta,

New Mexico. Building damaged by ...

The Oak Tree Engagement and the Battle of the Short Hills

The Oak Tree Engagement of June 26, 1777 took place in Edison Township near this marker. The engagement was one of four near continuous skirmishes that were known as the Battle of the Short Hills.

In late 1776, the revolutionary forces ...

The Muskingum River Flows North

Thirty-thousand years ago, the streams and rivers in this area flowed north. A ridge extended across what is today the Muskingum-Morgan County line about seven miles south of the Philo Lock. When the Wisconsin Glacier moved down from Canada 25,000 ...

Theresa “Tessie” McNamara

1892 – 1971

In 1915 Tessie McNamara was the first woman hired by the Canadian Car Foundry Co. Ltd., a munitions plant in Kingsland, which is now Lyndhurst, New Jersey. She was hired as a stenographer and telephone switchboard operator, but ...

The Sullivan Campaign

July 31 to October 15, 1779

Congress and General George Washington planned a major offensive campaign against the Seneca, Cayuga, and loyalists in 1779. Washington chose Major General John Sullivan to lead the expedition up the Susquehanna River, while Brigadier General ...

Chase County & The Bluestem Pasture Region of Kansas

The vast prairie which surrounds this site is typical of the Bluestem pasture region more commonly known as the Flint Hills. Named for its predominant grasses, the area extends from Oklahoma almost to Nebraska in a narrow oval two ...

The Wayside Home

Was erected near this spot

by patriotic citizens of this

vicinity for the sick and

wounded soldiers and all

weary and hungry wearers

of the Confederate Grey

Marker is on Cotton Street near Daniel Street, on the right when traveling east.

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