Home of Governor James Duane Doty

(1799-1865)

The home of James Duane Doty, oldest residence in Fond du Lac County, was built in 1839. Doty served as Federal Judge, Congressman, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was Governor of Utah when ...

Emigrant Indians In Kansas

As the nation pushed west, Indian tribes were removed from their lands. Between 1825 and 1850, 25 tribes were relocated to Kansas. Two tiny strips of land in extreme northeast Kansas were set aside for the Iowa and the Sac ...

72-74 Tradd Street

Fotheringham-McNeil Tenements

circa 1740

Local merchant James Matthews constructed this three-story over raised basement, double tenement building circa 1740. The house features a Flemish bond brick pattern and nine over nine light windows. The gambrel roof with a jerkin-head gable ...

Thomas F. Wood

1841-1892

Organizer & Sec.-Treas. of State Board of Health, 1877-1892. Founded N.C. Medical Journal in 1878. Home was 1 block west.

Marker is on North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles north of Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Cudworth House

1636 — 1976

Home of the Scituate Historical Society on land granted to Richard Garrett prior to 1646. Zephanian Cudworth built the present house in 1797 around the original chimney.

Marker is on First Parish Road just from Central Park Drive, on ...

14th Illinois - 25th Indiana

Veatch's Brigade - Hurlbut's Division

U.S.

14th Illinois, 25th Indiana,

Veatch's (2d) Brig., Hurlbut's (4th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

These regiments, in order as above, were engaged at 4:30 P.M. April 6, 1862 and assisted in repelling the charge of Pond's Brigade.

Marker is on ...

Lyles Station, Indiana

1886 --- Lyles Station, Indiana --- 1986

Dedicated to preserve the memory of Joshua Lyles

Lyles Station, Indiana, the State’s only remaining black-named community, was settled more than one hundred years ago by Joshua Lyles, a Freed Slave from Tennessee.

He encouraged other ...

Founding Family Memorial Statue

"The Homecoming"

On March 30, 1734, Benjamin Chambers, a Scots-Irish immigrant and millwright was granted a Blunston License by the Penn family to develop a 400-acre plantation and gristmill for the first Franklin County settlement, named the Falling Spring Settlement.

In the ...

18th Lousiana - Orleans Guard - 16th Louisiana

Pond's Brigade - Ruggles' Division - Bragg's Corps

C.S.

18th La., Orleans Guard, 16th La.,

Pond's (3rd) Brig., Ruggles' (1st) Div., Bragg's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi

These regiments formed on echelon, left in front, charged the Union line in their front at 4.30 p.m. ...

The Greatest Sacrifice / Prelude to Gettysburg

The price of war is devastation. Franklin County paid the price when its county seat, Chambersburg, was burned to the ground in 1864. Invaded in 1862, 1863, and 1864 by Confederate forces, Franklin County has the distinction of suffering more ...