Cypress-Davis Methodist Episcopal Church

Named for Cypress Creek and at other times called Davis for the pioneer Davis family, ancestors of the Emerson family of Somerville, this church stood in the Center Point community on land owned now (1996) by James H. Shelton, great-great-grandson ...

Saint Peter's Catholic Church

In the early 1850's, settlers from Rhine, Bavaria, Bohemia, and Luxembourg came to this part of Wisconsin now known as Tilden Township. They vowed to build a church in honor of the "Blessed Virgin Mother of God" giving thanks for ...

St. Johns River and Lake Monroe

Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe in the middle basin of the St. Johns River. The river rises in the marshes of Indian River County and flows slowly north 310 miles to Jacksonville and the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Chapman Park

Dedicated to Rockland Patrolman

John D. Chapman

Law Enforcement Officer

Killed in the Line of Duty

at this location on February 16, 1938

Marker is at the intersection of Park Street (U.S. 1) and Main Street, on the right when traveling east on Park Street. ...

Civil War and Edwin Libby Post No. 16, G.A.R. Memorial

To the memory of those men who claiming Rockland

by birth or by adoption as their home

served in the Army & Navy of the United States

War of 1861-1865

Here stood for many years the home of

Edwin Libby Post No. 16

Grand Army of ...

Palmyra Confederate Monument

Erected to the memory of

Capt. Thomas A. Sidenor

Willis T. Baker

Thomas Humston

Morgan Bixler

John Y. Mc Pheeters

Hiram T. Smith

Herbert Hudson

John M. Wade

Francis M. Lear

Eleazer Lake

Marker is on South Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Palmyra

Side A:

Palmyra, founded in 1819, was for many years the northernmost town on the Salt River Trail from St. Charles to the Des Moines River. A Federal Land Office for the Salt River area located here, 1824 – 58, led ...

Palmyra Massacre

A State Divided

The Palmyra Massacre

The Palmyra Massacre was a grim ending to Confederate Col. Joseph Porter's 1862 recruiting campaign in northeast Missouri. Besides recruiting local men for the Confederate army, Porter attacked Union outposts and patrols all summer long. In ...

Sanford's First Residents

Over 1,000 years ago, the Timucua (tee-MOO-quo) people established villages in this area. They fished, hunted, and grew crops such as maize, squash, and beans.

By the 1700s, the Timucuans began to disappear as they succumbed to war and disease ...

The Firehouse Museum

This building was erected in 1889 as the

town’s first fire department.

It served as a working fire station

from that date until 1923.

Subsequent usage included:

Utilization as a meeting hall for the Mayor and City Council of Ellicott City; Offices of the Howard ...