Traveling Circus Posters

The traveling circus was "here today and gone tomorrow". The one day stop included two performances. Circus management sent an advance crew two weeks ahead of time to let everyone know that the show was coming. The posters were 28" ...

103rd Illinois

2nd Brigade - 4th Division

[Front Side]:

Illinois

103rd Infantry,

2nd Brigade - Corse,

4th Division - Ewing,

15th Army Corps - Blair.

[Back Side]:

The metal plaque is missing

Marker can be reached from North Crest Road north of Lightfoot Mill Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Caney War Memorial

To Our Defenders

1775 – 1918

This monument sponsored by

Ernest Brown Post 138 American Legion,

was erected by the

patriotic organizations and

citizens of Caney

Dedicated to the memory

of these Caney men,

who in World War Two,

made the Supreme Sacrifice.

Lester J. Peasall, Jr. · John D. Ewers ...

Richard Colbert Mason

Engineer · Scientist · Inventor

Library registered of 19 United States Patents, Inventor of many devises [sic] for the oil industry. Engineer for the U.S.A. during the World War-2. He conceived the idea of Christ’s statue atop Devils Tower which he ...

Summit County Courthouse

Breckenridge Historic District

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Summit County Courthouse

Cornerstone laid in 1909 on the "Most Beautiful spot in Summit County." Dedicated St. Patrick's Day, 1910.

This Corner Stone was rededicated by the Masonic Grand ...

Tri-State Business Center

Quincy's brewers and brick makers, contractors and coopers, foundry and factory workers, and diverse other tradesmen made this Mississippi River community an important center of commerce in Lincoln's day. Quincy's businessmen, whose enterprises attracted business from Missouri, a slave state ...

Steamboats and Railroads

Lincoln traveled to Quincy by stagecoach in 1854 after crossing the Illinois River at Naples. Lincoln's first documented visit was to support the Congressional candidacy of Archibald Williams and to attack the Kansas- Nebraska Act and its author, Stephen A. ...

Captain Richard C. Mason

PeaRidge Battlefield Arkansas 1862

Near this monument March 8, 1862, Captain Richard C. Mason of the 16th Arkansas Cavalry and [sic] was severly [sic] wounded and his horse killed. Mason was rescued by Frank Colbert a Chickasaw. Mason served for the ...

Fishers

For centuries Indians used the trail that later became

old Evergreen Highway. Where each creek entered the Columbia River the Indians made camp.

In 1805 Lewis & Clark and their expedition camped on Government Island, a haven for waterfowl. The Army ...

Lincoln's Carthage Speech

Abraham Lincoln defended himself against political attacks during much of the speech he delivered here on the courthouse grounds on October 22, 1858. Stephen A. Douglas, who had spoken here eleven days earlier, had accused Lincoln of being too cozy ...