Planted in Memory of Theodore Roosevelt

Planted in Memory Of

Theodore Roosevelt

On the 100th Anniversary Of

His Birth October 27, 1958

Capt. David Hawley Society C.A.R.

Marker is on Academy Hill 0.1 miles east of Main Street (Route 113), on the left when traveling ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

A Fruitless Campaign

“In the fight of Johnson’s Division on last Friday I was under as warm a musketry fire as I have experienced for a good while—certainly worse than I have been in since Sharpsburg.” — Let. Col. Alexander S. ...

Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary

Here in 1830, in the house of Colonel John Eigleberger, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina and Adjacent States opened a seminary which grew into the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary now located in Columbia, S.C.

Marker is on US Highway ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

The Confederate Wheel

“Several efforts were made to charge the hostile line, but as these attempts were made by single brigades, without proper deliberation and without co-operation on the part of the other forces to the right and left, they naturally ...

Historic Northern Iowa / Carrie Lane Chapman Catt - (1859 - 1947

Side A

Northern Iowa landforms result from the action of 3 separate glacial ice sheets. Clear Lake, south of here, is one of the many Iowa lakes formed by glacial action. Pilot Knob, a glacially formed hill west of ...

The Seedling Mile

Here is a section of an original Seedling Mile on the Lincoln Highway. It was completed November 3, 1915. Grand Island was the second city in the United States to build such an example of concrete roadway. The original Seedling ...

The Mormon Trail

For thousands of Mormons, the great pioneer trail along the north bank of the Platte which paralleled the river about a mile south of here was an avenue of escape from persecution and a roadway to a new life.

Brigham Young ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

The Stonewall Brigade

“We soon struck the Yankee skirmishers and drove them back through the woods to an open field, where we ran into French’s entire corps and into about the hottest place that could be imagined.” — Capt. William B. ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

The Worm Fence

“We gained a slight rise in the land behind an old worm fence. The enemy had fallen back under cover of a piece of woods well in our front. Soon they came out in splendid battle array, with ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

Baptism of Fire

“[It was] … as warm a contest as this regiment was ever engaged in. … It seemed as if the enemy was throwing minie-balls upon us by the bucket-full, when the battle got fairly under way.” — Member ...