Manitowoc County Courthouse

Manitowoc County

Courthouse

1010 South Eighth Street

c. 1906

is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

8th Street Historic District

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Marker can be reached from South 8th Street south of Washington Street (U.S. 10), on the right when traveling ...

Sagamore Hill Trail

By looking at the present landscape, one can see into the past. Sagamore Hill is rich in cultural and natural history. What was once a Indian Council gathering place later became a World War II Coastal Military Installation. The land ...

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 ...

The Tioga Inn

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Lincoln Street and Main Street, on the left when traveling north on Lincoln Street.

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 ...

Kemper Street Station

History

The new Kemper Street Station, which opened on October 31, 1912, was one of many improvements made in Lynchburg by Southern Railway to double track its mainline between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. The Rivermont Tunnel, the James River Bridge, and ...

Octave Chanute and the Founding of the Town of Chanute

Chanute - Wright Memorial

In 1873, Octave Chanute collaborated with the four towns of Tioga, Alliance, New Chicago and Chicago Junction to successfully convince the railroad to run a main line through this area.

For his efforts the towns agreed to name ...

Octave Chanute: Engineer

Chanute - Wright Memorial

Born in Paris in 1832, Octave Chanute immigrated to the U.S. at the age of six. Even with no education in engineering, he would become one of the foremost engineers of the 19th Century through involvement in ...