Running Water Creek Bridge

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Bridge over Running Water Creek was a vital link in the rail connection between Nashville and Chattanooga. The retreating Confederate Army destroyed it in the summer of 1863.

The pursuing Federal Army expected ...

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

Lt. Col. Richard Keirn

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

Marker is at the intersection of 6th Street NW and Paige Avenue, on the right when traveling north on 6th Street ...

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

Kenneth Cordier

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

Marker is at the intersection of 6th Street NW and Paige Avenue, on the right when traveling north on 6th Street NW.

Courtesy ...

Sidney and Shelby County Millenium Monument

This sculpture celebrates [Agriculture/Civic Life/Education/Industry] in Sidney and Shelby County at the turn of the Millenium. [These] four pieces representing important aspects of local life, [were] donated by the Sidney/Shelby Public Art Foundation as part of the Millenium Monument project. ...

Edwin McMasters Stanton

Edwin McMasters Stanton

Born in this city December 19, 1814

U S Attorney General

1862 — 1861

Secretary of War

1862 — 1868

Justice U S Supreme Court

1869

Died December 24, 1869

Marker is at the intersection of North 3rd Street (Ohio Route 822) and Market Street, on ...

Pierce Memorial Methodist Church

The first regular appointment for Sparta as a preaching place on a circuit was in 1799 with George Dougherty, one of the great preachers of the period as pastor. In 1802, Bishop Francis Asbury preached in the courthouse.

In 1806, the ...

Henry Jerome Stockard

Poet, author of "Fugitive Lines" and other works; lifelong educator; president of Peace Institute, 1907-12. Home stood here.

Marker is at the intersection of North Church Street and Graham-Hopedale Road on North Church Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Toledo Zoo / The New Deal in Toledo

Side 1:

The Toledo Zoo

Now ranked among the country's finest, the zoo began in 1900 with one large woodchuck in a box at Walbridge Park. After the organization of the Toledo Zoological Society, 1905-10, the zoo began its steady growth, particularly ...

Capt. Charles F. Rand

In Memory of

A native Batavian who once lived at No. 4 Liberty Street. Charles Franklin Rand is officially recognized by the Congress of the United States as the first person to answer President Lincoln's appeal for volunteers in the ...

Joshua Speed's Store

There was a housing shortage in Springfield when 28 year old Abraham Lincoln---riding a borrowed horse---moved here from New Salem in April 1837. Builders couldn't keep up with the newly designated state capital. One of Lincoln's first stops was at ...