West Settlement and Abolition Lane

Side A:

Augustus West, an African American, was born in Madison County, Virginia on March 20, 1814, and moved to Ohio in 1837. Legend has it that West was a runaway slave and worked as a farm laborer before designing a ...

Boston Post Road

68 Miles from Boston

This road is the first mail route in North America, established in 1673 by King Charles II of England.

In 1767, while Benjamin Franklin was Postmaster General, mileage was marked out with stone markers from Boston to New ...

Boston Post Road

This section of the old Boston Post Road – Washington Street to Southbridge Road – was probably named for General George Washington who traveled this way en route to Boston to take command of the American troops in 1775. He ...

Ralph Louis Engelstad

January 28, 1930 – November 26, 2002

With gratitude to the Engelstad Family Foundation for its generous contribution to this Liberty Bell monument, and in recognition of the life and achievements of Ralph Louis Engelstad who personified the highest qualities of ...

Service Star Legion World War I Memorial

To the memory of those

who served

1917-1918

Marker is at the intersection of Prospect Avenue and Mason Street, on the right when traveling north on Prospect Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Millpond

1636

Used for water, fish, power

and skating lay south and west

of this spot. April 19, 1775

British troops dumped captured

cannon shot, musket balls and

barrels of flour into the pond.

The militia later recovered most

of the ammunition and a good part

of the flour from ...

Theodore Roosevelt / William Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt

Former President Theodore Roosevelt

addressed a large crowd from

these steps on May 16, 1912.

He was introduced by C. B. De Weese.

William Howard Taft

President William Howard Taft

was the first sitting President to

visit Sidney. He spoke from this

location on May 23, 1912.

Taft ...

Trades along the Battle Road

Minute Man Nat’l Hist Park, Mass

In 1775, the house before you was the home of Job and Anna Brooks, and their children Asa and Anna. Across the street was the home of cousin Joshua Brooks and his family.

From the late ...

Site of Old Swan Tavern

Site of old Swan Tavern where lived and died Jack Jouett, whose heroic ride saved Mr. Jefferson, the Governor, and the Virginia Assembly from capture by Tarleton June 1781.

Marker is on Park Street north of Jefferson Street, on the right ...

County Named, 1842

For Capt. Bland Ballard, 1759-1853. Born in Va. Came to Ky. in 1779. Devoted life protecting frontier. Scout for George Rogers Clark's Ohio expedition, 1780. '82; Wabash campaign 1786. In the battles of Fallen Timbers, 1793; Tippecanoe, 1811; River Raisin, ...