1914 United Confederate Veterans Reunion

On these grounds, May 6-9, 1914, the United Confederate Veterans celebrated their 24th annual reunion. Expecting no more than 25,000 reunion goers, the city was nearly overwhelmed when an estimated 70,000 visitors including 8,000 Veterans converged on Jacksonville. The average ...

"The Great Endurance Run"

On November 24, 1909 the "Autoist" participating in "The Great Endurance Run" reached the "Turn Around Checkpoint" at the Jacksonville City Hall which was located at this exact site. The location marked the halfway point for the "Drivers and Observers" ...

Boys Town Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to Boys Town's

sons & daughters who

have served their country in the

Armed Forces

July 1991

Honoring

Boys Town Alumni

who gave the

Ultimate Sacrifice

Ask not what your country can do for you

ask what you can do for your country

Marker is at the intersection of Flanagan ...

McAllister State Graded School

The term “graded school” was used to refer to any school that had more than one room and therefore contained more than one grade level of pupils. The McAllister State Graded School was built in 1914 and added to in ...

Johnson - Joss Memorial Park

Alexander Johnson donated the land for the first High School, City Park and the Catholic Church.

Leonard Joss, naturalist, landscaped the first city park, planted diverse flora all around Etna.

In honor of their generosity we dedicated this park in their memory, ...

North and South Redoubts

In 1779, Major General Heath supervised construction of South (Middle) and North Redoubts (located across the river and east of the Town of Garrison). Both were designed to prevent British control of eastern approaches to West Point and Constitution ...

Discovering the Colorful History of Columbus

Commemorating Columbus’ Sesquicentennial 1856-2006

The mural reveals important moments in the city’s development by “peeling through” eight of the numerous layers of time from the present to the past.

An aspect of the mural is the transition of color through the piece. ...

Glur's Tavern

National Historic Site

Nebraska's Oldest Tavern

Circa 1876

Oldest Tavern in the West

Marker is at the intersection of 11th Street and 23rd Avenue, on the left when traveling west on 11th Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Arnold

Fort Arnold was renamed Fort Clinton following Benedict Arnold’s treason. It was the main fortification at West Point. Situated at the tip of the Plain overlooking the Hudson River, Fort Arnold, containing 12 cannon, 11 mortars and supported by ...

Philip Murray

1886 - - - - - 1952

President

United Steelworkers of America

1936 - 1952

Congress of Industrial Organization

1940 - 1952

Philip Murray went into the coal mines as a boy of 16. By 1916 he had risen through the ...