Fort Omaha Quartermaster Depot

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Even after the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Army relied on mules and wagons to outfit its isolated posts. The Department of the Platte, headquartered at Fort Omaha, paid over $700,000 to acquire and transport ...

Fort Omaha Headquarters Building

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Constructed in 1906, this double barracks building housed noncommissioned officers of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which had reactivated Fort Omaha in 1905. During World War I, this building served as South Post Headquarters for the Army’s ...

Durham-Perry Farmstead

Durham-Perry Farmstead is located on the Perry Farm. It is maintained and operated as an historic site by the Bourbonnais Township Park District.

This plan shows the farmstead as it is today. The drawing is not the scale. The farmstead occupies ...

New-York Historical Society

The New-York Historical Society, founded in 1804 in Manhattan, is New York's oldest museum. The museum presents exhibitions, public programs and related to the history of New York and its relationship to the United States as a whole and holds ...

The Stewart Building

Julius Kauffman (1856-1935) and Julius Runge (1851-1906), second generation owners of a commission firm established in 1842, had architect Eugene T. Heiner design this renaissance revival building in the north Italian mode. Contractor Robert Palisser completed the structure in 1882. ...

On This Site South Bend Was Founded

On this site

South Bend

was founded

as a fur trading post in 1823

by

Alexis Coquillard,

who came here from

Detroit, Michigan,

representing the

American Fur Company.

Marker is at the intersection of North Michigan Street (Indiana Route 933) and East LaSalle Street, on the right when traveling north ...

Site of the Home of Michel Branamour Menard

1805 - 1856

A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Founder of the city of Galveston. Member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas.

Marker is at the intersection of 33rd Street and Avenue N 1/2, on the ...

Williams-Tucker House, 1837-40

Built by Samuel May Williams, a founder of Galveston, secretary to Stephen F. Austin, postmaster and land agent of Austin colony. Organized first Texas bank, was father of Texas navy and shipping industry. As envoy to the U. S., failed ...

Samuel May Williams

(1795 - 1858)

Born the son of a ship captain in Rhode Island, Samuel Williams was apprenticed to his uncle in Baltimore after 1810 to learn business skills. After 1816 he lived in Buenos Aires, where he learned Spanish and ...

The Headmaster's House and the Monroe Academy

This brick building at 3045 East Henrietta Road was built in 1826 for the headmaster of "The Monroe Academy", a secondary boarding school located across the street.

The academy, built 1826 from bricks from the Deming Brickyard, was an impressive ...