Charles Lee Moore

Recipient of 1989 of the first Kodack Award for Photojournalism, Charles Moore chronicled such major events as the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's South, political violence in Haiti, and the air war in Vietnam.

Marker is on Hightower Place, on ...

Stewart Ernest Cink

Winner of both national and international golfing championships, in 2009 Stewart Clink became the first native Alabamian to claim the coveted claret jug as the champion of the British Open in Turnberry, Scotland.

Marker is on Hightower Place, on the left ...

Frank Perron Achorn

In 1947 Frank Achorn began his successful work as a chemical engineer in 45 states and 40 countries to feed the hungry of the world through increased crop yields. He later secured eight patents related to the fertilizer industry.

Marker is ...

Women in Greencastle History

The Post-Civil War years in Greencastle were significant for women. Because they had proved themselves so capable at filling jobs usually held by men, new doors opened for them. In 1867 Indiana Asbury University (later renamed DePauw University) admitted four ...

Hotel Northland

Packers Heritage Trail

The Hotel Northland was the social hub of Green Bay and more specifically the city's nerve center during football weekends and other Packer events from shortly after it opened in 1924 through the 1960s.

Vince Lombardi's introductory press conference ...

La Porte – Quincy Wagon Road

On May 1, 1866 a special election was held in Plumas County to issue bonds in the sum of $20,000 for the construction of the La Porte – Quincy Wagon Road. The 34-1/2 mile road was completed in 1867 under ...

Benjamin W. Barnes

“Pappy”

“Barnes Spring” established as La Portes water supply 1858. For his efforts our citizens will forever by indebted.

Marker can be reached from Church Street.

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“Quick Silver Charley”

Charles W. Hendel

Snow-shoe Race beginning 1854

Sierra County Surveyor 1870

Deputy U.S. Surveyor 1871

Plumas County Surveyor 1879

Plumas County Supervisor 1910

Snow-shoed to Quincy for meetings

past the age of 80

Marker can be reached from Church Street.

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Black Pioneers Cemetery

Circa 1830 – 1900

333 marked graves in 2001

Jim Scott 1871

Hett Powell 1890

Marker is on Covered Bridge Road SW ¼ mile south of Euharlee Road SW, on the right when traveling north.

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John Dillinger Was Here

On October 23, 1933, the nation’s Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger and some of his gang (Harry Pierpont, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Walter Dietrich, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, and George “Baby Face” Nelson) drove to the Central National ...