The Old Connecticut Path

1630 - 1930

An Indian trail before 1630 left the road here to go over Fay Mountain.

Marker is on Ruggles Street.

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Historic Kolb Studio

Established in 1904 by the Kolb Brothers as a photographic studio and operated by Emery Kolb until his death in 1976. Kolb is now operated as a book store and information center by the Grand Canyon Association, a non-profit organization. ...

The Wading Place

1630 - 1930

Site of the ford or wading place where the Indian trail from Plymouth to "Middleberry" (Middleborough) crossed the Nemasket River. When the town was established, 1669, its southern boundary was described as extending "Six mile from the ...

Lookout Studio

The Fred Harvey Company built Lookout Studio in 1914, in part to compete with the Kolb Brothers Studio located slightly west along the rim. Called "The Lookout," Fred Harvey's studio offered telescopic views, photographs, and books about the canyon.

Designed by ...

The Camellia Garden

The South Carolina Botanical Garden began in 1958 when a camellia collection on the Clemson University campus was moved to make way for construction. Since that time, many others have been added, and the collection now contains more than 300 ...

Alexis De Tocqueville

Alexis De Tocqueville

The 25 year-old French aristocrat

and author of Democracy In America

visited this area

during his 1831 - 1832 tour of America

Placed by C-Span and the cable television industry

while retracing the tour in 1997 - ...

Old Maanexit Ford

1630 - 1930

From this ford branched trails to Woodstock, Brookfield and Sturbridge. This way ran the Post Route established in 1672 "to goe monthly" from New York to Boston. Here, June 5, 1676, Major Talcott's Connecticut troops passed to join ...

Senator Daniel Webster

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable,” Senator Daniel Webster, January 1830.

Senator Daniel Webster, eloquent advocate for the preservation of the Union and a political giant in pre-Civil War America, lived and ...

Nicolet Landing

1634-1909

Commemorating the discovery of Wisconsin in 1634 by Jean Nicolet, Emissary of Governor Champlain of New France. In this vicinity Nicolet first met the

Winnebago Indians.

Marker is on Benderville Road 0.2 miles from Nicolet Drive.

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Monumental Building

Ohio's most important Civil War building was the first of 14 constructed. The cornerstone was laid in June 1875 to honor 320 fallen comrades. The placement of Sgt. Baker in 1900 facing Ohio Avenue completed the building. An opera hall, ...