Illumination History of the Aerial Lift Bridge

The first lighting was on November 20, 1970, made possible through the contributions of Duluth school children, citizens, business people and visitors.

The present dramatic lighting, first seen on July 4, 1987, is made possible through a generous gift from the ...

Unknown Soldiers of the Continental Army

In memory of the

many unknown soldiers

of the

Continental Army

who died from sickness and

exposure while encamped in

these fields before the

Battle of Trenton and were

buried at this spot

Christmas Day 1776.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Bascom Affair / Bascom-Cochise Meeting Site

The Bascom Affair

On February 4, 1861, 2nd Lt. George Bascom, and his detachment of 54 men encamped two hundred yards east of here. Bascom’s mission was to find Cochise, recover a kidnapped boy and return livestock assumed taken by the ...

Trunk of the Three Mile Oak

Upper Plaque: This oak tree planted in 1967 perpetuates the memory of the original Three Mile Oak which stood nearby as explained in the marker below.

Lower Plaque: Trunk of the Three Mile Oak

Under this tree passed General George Washington December ...

The Moses Carver Farm

The farm on which George Washington Carver grew up was owned by Moses and Susan Carver. While George’s path in life took him far from here, he considered this farm his first home.

In the 1830s, Moses and Susan Carver moved ...

End of the Campaign

Here Stonewall Jackson, retreating up the Valley before the converging columns of Fremont and Shields, turned at bay, June 1862. A mile southeast Jackson’s cavalry commander, Ashby, was killed, June 6. At Cross Keys, six miles southeast, Ewell of Jackson’s ...

Site of Propagation of the Thompson Seedless Grape

William Thompson, an Englishman, and his family settled here in 1863. In 1872 he sent to New York for three cuttings called Lady de Coverly of which only one survived. The grape, first publicly displayed in Marysville in 1875, became ...

The Mississippi River

"The Father of Water" has provided means of travel and commerce since early days. Indians, explorers, priests, traders, and settlers plied its current in canoes, dugouts, flatboats, keelboats, packets, and towboats.

Until the Civil War, Cape Girardeau thrived as a river ...

Sacred to the Memory of Baron de Kalb

Knight of the Royal Order of Military Merit, Brigadier of the Armies of France and Major General in service of the United States of America.

Having served with honor and reputation for three years, he gave a last and glorious proof ...

Quantico Marine Athletes of the Sixties

This monument is donated by the Quantico Marine Athletes of the Sixties in honor of their teammates who gave their lives in Vietnam

2LT Tyrone S. Pannell Nov. 30, 1965

2Lt John B. Capel May 12, 1966

2LT Gene S. ...