"My Western Home" or "Home on the Range"

On this site circa 1873

Dr. Brewster M. Higley

wrote the words to

"Home on the Range"

Adopted as official

State Song of Kansas

June 30, 1947

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In 1873 Dr. Brewster Higley wrote the words, Dan Kelley supplied the music, and the Harlan Brothers Orchestra started the ...

The Howard Cemetery

Thomas Howard, aged 66, a Revolutionary War Veteran, arrived at the head of the great rapids of the Maumee from New York State in 1822. Three cabins were erected for his family and the families of his two sons Edward ...

Draining the Great Black Swamp

The landscape of northwest Ohio was formed by melting ice and glacial lakes left behind in its wake. Because of the low gradient (3 feet fall per mile) to the northeast, the flat lacustrine plain evolved into a large swamp. ...

Woodville “The Lime Center of the World” / Maumee and Western Re

Woodville “The Lime Center of the World.” Woodville and the surrounding area is situated in the center of a huge deposit of some of the purest dolomitic limestone in the world. The absence of cracks in the rock stratum and ...

The Union Army Escapes

After dark, May 5, 1863, Union soldiers left their trenches and began making their way toward U.S. Ford. A cold rain drenched the soldiers to the skin and turned the woodland roads to mud. At the ford, the Rappahannock River ...

To the American Soldier

Presented to the Corp of Cadets

The lives and destinies of valiant Americans are entrusted to your care and leadership.

Class of 1935 Class of 1936

Felix de Weldon sculptor 1980

Marker is at the intersection of Mills Road and Schoefield Place, on the ...

New Market in the Civil War

This area was patrolled by Confederate troops under the command of Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee at the time of General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland in September 1862.

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and his Confederate cavalry escaping from Union forces ...

New Market in the Civil War

This area was patrolled by Confederate troops under the command of Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee at the time of General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland in September 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of Old National Road / West ...

John G. Matthews House

After coming to Texas with his parents in 1840, John G. Matthews (1824-1903) joined a Ranger company and fought in the Mexican War (1846-48). He married Nancy Leanorah Carothers (1838-93) and in 1872 built this hand-hewn native limestone house, which ...

Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi and International Expositi

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody held the first official performance of his Wild West show just half a mile northeast of here on May 19, 1883. Eight thousand people attended the premiere at the Omaha Driving Park near Eighteenth and ...