Wisconsin Lead Region

Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties were once the center of a lead-mining boom. Indians had sold lead to early traders, but there were few white miners here in 1820. Mining brought in a large part of the 37,000 population credited ...

“On the Shoulders of Giants”

This memorial garden was commissioned the 14th of April, 1998

and is dedicated to our African American ancestors who

have constructed, educated, served and contributed to

the University of Maryland. African Americans – both enslaved

and free – were a critical ...

Edwardsville

Home of Five Illinois Governors

Edward Coles 1822-1826

Ninian Edwards 1826-1830

John Reynolds 1830-1834

Thomas Ford 1842-1846

Charles S. Deneen 1905-1913

Marker is at the intersection of St Louis Street and Randle Street, on the left when traveling east on St Louis Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Redan Battery

Near this spot Lieut-Col. John MacDonnell Attorney General of Upper Canada was mortally wounded 13th October 1812.

Marker can be reached from Niagara Parkway 0.4 kilometers east of York Street (Local Route 81), on the right when traveling west.

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Gainesville's Railroads / Past Railroads of Gainesville

Gainesville's Railroads

The coming of the Florida Railroad opened up the interior of Florida for both settlement and trading and helped establish Gainesville. On February 1, 1859 the Florida Railroad entered town and connected Fernandina Beach with Cedar Key by ...

New Cavalry Barracks

The earliest quarters for soldiers at Fort Clark were tents along Las Moras creek near the spring. During the fort’s 1870s building boom, three cavalry barracks were constructed, but by the late 1920s they had become too deteriorated for continued ...

3. The Capture of the Redan and the Death of Brock

On the river banks below here, the Americans were trapped. To the right the Americans scaled the river cliff and seized the Heights above. To the left the British held the Village of Queenston. A British 18-pounder cannon situated here ...

2. The Treacherous River Cliff

The Battle of Queenston Heights Walking Tour

"An unguarded trail up this steep cliff was the only route which the Americans had to the heights of Queenston. The trail was to your right but does not exist any longer. Trapped on ...

The River Lines

The Delta King and the Delta Queen

San Francisco - Daily - Sacramento

Leave 6:30 P.M. Arrive 5:30 A.M.

Marker 2:

June 1, 1927: The Delta King and Delta Queen begin the first of many two-day voyages between San Francisco ...

Old Chinatown District--Circa 1890

In the 1850s, Chinese came to California, a land they called Gum Shan, meaning Mountain of Gold, for the same reason as other nationalities: to seek their fortune. As the placer gold played out, Chinese took jobs building railroads, dams, ...