Prairie View Cemetery

Pioneer settlers in this vicinity met together for worship services in the Gum Springs Schoolhouse until 1892, when Stephen Taylor deeded land at this site for church and cemetery purposes. This historic cemetery began in the churchyard of the First ...

Site of Prairie Point Community

Anglo settlement of this part of Burnet County began in the 1850s. By the 1870s settlers had established cattle and sheep ranches as well as a number of family farms. A community school opened in 1882 and remained in operation ...

The Prairie

A Sea of Grass

In its early days Fort Snelling was surrounded by a sea of head-high grass. The vast Minnesota prairie was broken only by small groves of trees—willows, cottonwoods, and oaks that grew near creeks, lakes, and marshes.

Early soldiers ...

Tallgrass Prairie Trail

"The immediate site of the post...opens out rapidly to the south in a beautifully undulating prairie."

Assistant Surgeon Joseph K. Barnes, describing the Fort Scott landscape in 1862.

Walk this short trail and imagine "the most magnificent prairie of the country," as ...

The Pawnee: Prairie Town Builders, Pawnee History

The Pawnee: Prairie Town Builders, Pawnee History

The Pawnee migrated from the Southwest and lived in the Platte and Loup Village areas for more than seven centuries.

The Pawnee were the most influential and populous of the native peoples of Nebraska. They ...

The Dead of Prairie Grove

The men who died on this field on December 7, 1862 are buried in the soldier cemeteries in Fayetteville. 700 unknown Confederate soldiers are in the cemetery maintained by the Southern Memorial Association on East Mountain. The Union dead are ...

Battle of Prairie Grove

December 7, 1862

The battle on this field was fought between the Confederate army of General T.C. Hindman (Arkansas) and Federal forces commanded by Generals James G. Blunt (Kansas) and F.J. Herron (Iowa). Battlefield Park occupies the approximate center of the ...

Prairie Des Mascoutins / Damascus

Front Text : "Prairie Des Mascoutins"

In 1742, a tribe of Kickapoo requested permission from Montreal's Governor to move to a Mascoutin village on both sides of the river here. French "Coureurs de Bois" traders named the wide floodplain "La Prairie ...

Not So Little A Farm On the Prairie...

The agricultural censuses for 1860, 1865, and 1870 make it clear that J.B. Mahaffie had one of the most valuable farming operations in the township.

In 1865, J.B. owned 570 acres of land, with 240 of them enclosed by fence. The ...

Prairie du Chien

In prehistoric times water from melting glaciers cut a wide valley between the bluffs of the Mississippi River to form a broad flood plain. On it French explorers, traders and missionaries found a large and well-established Fox Indian village. The ...