First Settlement in DeKalb County Indiana 1828

First Settlement in DeKalb County Indiana 1828

Marker is at the intersection of Indiana Route 1 and DeKalb County Road 68 (County Route 68), on the right when traveling north on State Route 1.

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Site of Opera House

c. 1879 – c. 1933

Here in 1916 Gov. Martin H. Glynn

gave his famed speech

“He kept us out of war”

This slogan re-elected Wilson.

Marker is on Upper Main Street (County Route 28A), on the left when traveling ...

Fort Drummond

[English Text]: Fort Drummond

This small redoubt, or square fortification, and the U-shaped advance battery, named in honour of Sir Gordon Drummond, were built in the late spring of 1814 to defend the main portage road from Chippawa to Queenston. ...

Rollestown

Site of the colony of Denys Rolle, English philanthropist. The settlement, composed of 200 indentured servants from the streets of London, was founded in 1767. It did not prosper and the settlers scattered. Negro slaves were imported to tend cattle, ...

Lower Marlboro

Calvert County

Before the American Revolution, Lower Marlborough (the spelling officially changed to Marlboro in the 19th century) was a thriving port town with large homes, inns, stores, warehouses, a sawmill, a tobacco inspection station, and the British tariff office.

As sails ...

Post Road - 1772

Albany to New York. Weekly

mail service established

on horseback. Passenger

service by covered wagons

and four horses in 1786.

Marker is on New York Route 9H south of Hudson Avenue (County Route 21), on the right when traveling north.

Port Wine

Port Wine had its beginning in early 1850. By 1851 surface mining had declined, but hydraulic mining instilled new life into the area. Port Wine was described as a religious and sober town in 1863. There was a post office ...

Sincerity Lodge 132 F. and A.M.

This historic building was built in 1878 by John McBeth and D.D. Compton, merchants, for use as a warehouse. As such it played an important role when Greenville’s two foundries, flour mill, sarsaparilla works, brickyard, wagon shop, and sawmill supplied ...

Taylorsville Cemetery

This picturesque cemetery dates to the 1850s. Within it’s hallowed grounds sleep many pioneers of Plumas County and particularly Indian Valley, some of whom are:

Jobe Terrill Taylor, founder of Taylorsville; Abbie Fort, African-American beekeeper and land owner; Dennis & Jerome ...

Alexander Abbott House

C. 1830

Dr. Abbott (1812 – 1884)

Major textile and paper

manufacturer as well as

dedicated citizen

Marker is on Kinderhook Street (U.S. 9), on the right when traveling north.

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