Soviet War Memorial

Tiergarten

1941 – 1945

English text:

Eternal Glory to the heroes who fell in the struggle against the German fascist invaders for the freedom and independence of the Soviet Union. 1941 - 1945

Marker is on Straße des 17. Juni ...

Forest Fire

1885 - 1935

During October 1908 DeBar Mt. was burned over by a forest fire that extended to 6,000 acres. Prevent forest fires.

Marker is on New York Route 30 0.6 miles north of McCollums Rd., on the left when ...

Franklin Co. Fair

Held here since 1852 and described by L.I. Wilder in Farmer Boy. Marshalling site for two Irish Fenian invasions of Canada.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main St. and Raymond St. on East Main St..

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Fox-Watson Theatre

1931

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Kansas Preservation Alliance

Award For Excellence

Marker is at the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and Walnut Street, on the right when traveling north on Santa Fe Avenue. ...

Gold Furnace

A gold furnace was commonly used to separate mercury from the gold. In gold placer mining, in which small specks and veins of gold were often found in quartz, mercury was used to separate the gold from the quartz. This ...

Bedford Street

Once a dirt country trail designed as an access to Christopher Street. A popular village thoroughfare. Having been mapped prior to 1799, Bedford Street is one of the earliest recorded streets in Greenwich Village. This street is named after Bedford ...

Leeds Historic CCC Camp

In the depression year of 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program provided much needed employment for the nation's youth 18-25 years old. The men had to complete the 8th grade, and have 3-4 family ...

Lincoln-Era Fire Companies

Lincoln's Springfield was vulnerable to fire, Crowded wood-frame buildings, open flames in stoves, fireplaces, candles, and primitive gas lighting ineffective alarms, muddy streets, and inadequate water supplies---all combined to make fires potentially devastating. Springfield had its share of fires. In ...

Barrow Street

Named after Thomas Barrow, an artist who in 1807 drew a picture of Trinity Church that received wide circulation as a print. Trinity Church was a large landowner of property in Greenwich Village due to a land grant from Queen ...

Lincoln's Carriage Maker

Lincoln brought his buggy to Obed Lewis for servicing at his shop on the north side of Monroe Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets.

When Lincoln first arrived in Springfield riding a borrowed horse he wondered at the "great deal of ...