Site of the Haymarket Tragedy

(plaque 1)

On the evening of May 4th, 1886, a tragedy of international significance unfolded on this site in Chicago’s Haymarket produce district. An outdoor meeting had been hastily organized by anarchist activists to protest the violent death of workers during ...

Meigs County Fairgrounds

Situated in an agriculturally rich area, county fairs have long been a significant tradition and event in Meigs County. The Meigs County Agricultural Society held its first fair on October 22, 1851, in Middleport and its second at the Rock-Spring ...

Riverside Beach / White's Paridise

Riverside Beach

Riverside Beach, developed by the Cooper River Bridge Company, opened in 1930 as the first black beach in the area. It was sold to the County in 1941. The site featured a dance pavilion, boardwalk, bath house, playground ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In a log cabin which stood here, Frances Eliza Hodgson, newly from England with her family, spent the winter of 1865. She helped support her family with music lessons, also opened a "Select Seminary for Young People." Here she met ...

Madonna of the Trail

(East Face) N.S.D.A.R. Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days.

(North Face) This the first military road in America beginning at Rock Creek and Potomac River, Georgetown, Maryland, leading our pioneers across this continent to the Pacific.

"Little Lord Fauntleroy"

The author of this book, probably the most famous of her several works, spent her first winter in the United States in a small house which stood about 250 yards south. Besides this juvenile work, she was the author of ...

Reconstructed Powder Magazine

The original magazine was a one room, double-wall building constructed of logs. It was made bombproof by a thick earth covering. The inner space was about 11 feet square. It held 1000 rounds for the guns of the Lower River ...

Ethan Allen tour boat tragedy

We hear from the misty troubled shore

the voice of those gone before

drawing the soul to it's anchorage

Bret Harte

This memorial is dedicated to the twenty men and women who tragically perished when the Ethan Allen tour ...

With Admirable Precision

This is the smallest of the two river batteries built by Confederates in 1861 to protect the Cumberland River, a strategic transportation and supply route to Clarksville and Nashville. Semicircular in design and set some 30 feet above the river, ...

McDonnell-Douglas F-4D Phantom II

Brigadier General Edward Cherry, USAF

General Cherry was born in Youngstown, OH, on March 4, 1939 and moved to Bowling Green, KY as an infant. He and his family lived here until his father Henry Hardin Cherry Jr., began his career ...