Jesse Lee Jackson

1917 - 2005

Jesse Lee Jackson was born on January 20, 1917, in Tennessee Colony, Texas. He moved with his family to Chanute at the age of 5. He graduated from Chanute High School and attended Chanute Junior College.

Jesse's dedication to ...

Lee's School

1846-1879

A school for boys,

conducted by Stephen Lee,

West Point graduate,

Confederate colonel,

stood 1/2 mile north.

P-29 North Carolina Office of Archives and History (Replacing 1951) 2007

Marker is at the intersection of Tunnel Road (U.S. 70 / 74) and Chunn's ...

Sherrill's Inn

Established in 1834 to

serve travelers crossing

Hickory Nut Gap. In

continuous service until

1909. House stands 300

yards south.

Marker is on Charlotte Highway (U.S. 74) near Ager Lane, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Warren Wilson College

Founded in 1894 by the

Presbyterian Church as

Asheville Farm School.

A four-year college

since 1966. 1 1/2 mi. E.

Marker is on Tunnel Road (U.S. 70) near Warren Wilson Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Octave Chanute's Progress in Flying Machines

Chanute - Wright Memorial

Mr. Chanute's 1891 book "Progress in Flying Machines" made him the world's first aviation historian, but, more importantly, for the first time experimenters could read of work done before them and not waste time by repetition.

His 1896 ...

Octave Chanute and "The Problem of The Ages"

Chanute - Wright Memorial

Mr. Chanute moved to Chicago in 1889 and began working on solving "the problem of the ages" - heavier-than-air flight.

Chanute corresponded with men all over the world interested in flight. He gathered all the information he could ...

Chanute Announces Wright Brothers' Flight

Chanute - Wright Memorial

The Wright Brothers received their copy of Mr. Chanute's book personally from the author, who became both their friend and advisor.

Mr. Chanute visited the Wrights at Dayton, Oh. and Kitty Hawk, N.C.. Illness caused Mr. Chanute to ...

Thoughts on a Successful Flying Machine

Chanute - Wright Memorial

"Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world, that it shall abridge distance, make all parts ...

County Hospital Cemetery

This publicly-owned cemetery contains the burials of 162 patients from the Manitowoc County Asylum for the Insane and the Manitowoc County Hospital who died between the years 1917 and 1974. The names of all, but two, are known.

The Manitowoc County ...

Potter's Field Cemetery

The land was originally part of 80 acres owned by Jacob W. Conroe who built a sawmill at Manitowoc Rapids in 1856. In 1914 the farmland was purchased by Manitowoc County and the ground set aside as a free burial ...