Military Road

Side A

1852Congress appropriated $20,000 for a military road from Fort Steilacoom to Fort Walla Walla. The road was made passable 1885.

Side B

Supplementing the appropriation made by congress citizens helped build the military road through the Nachess pass to Walla Walla ...

Great Branch School and Teacherage

(Front text)

The Great Branch School, which stood here from 1918 to the early 1960s, was one of the first Rosenwald schools in S.C. A two-room frame school built in 1917-18, it was typical of the rural black schools funded ...

St. Andrew's Church

Side A

Reverend Andrew Fowler was elected rector of Christ Church in 1828. He bought a village home on Whilden Street where he held services for 40 people from June to Advent to avoid the malaria-plagued sickly season. Services ...

Boom Town Historic District

Around 1889-1891 Fort Payne experienced a great industrial boom due to promotion by New England investors who speculated greatly on the area’s mineral deposits. During this period several highly ornate commercial and civic buildings, along with the planned park, were ...

Woodford County Courthouse

On this courthouse square in 1790 Jesse Graddy built, of logs, first of county's four courthouses. Total cost was $22.50. James and Henry Thompkins completed second one, of stone, 1794. Third hall of justice, built of brick in 1812-13, cupola ...

Topeka Tornado Victims

In Memory

This memorial is given as a

tribute for those who worked

unselfishly in restoring our

city to normalcy, and as

a memorial to those who

lost their lives in the

tornado of June 8, 1966.

Lisle Grauer • Mary Beasley

Craig Beymer • Calvin Wolfe

John Wells • ...

Patterson & Western Railroad

The narrow gauge railroad winding some 25 miles from Patterson through Del Puerto Canyon operated from Sept. 20, 1916 to August 14, 1920. During World War I, the railroad brought the much needed minerals of magnesite, manganese chrome and quicksilver ...

Ball’s Battlefield

Major Ball’s Squadron 2nd Light Dragoons U.S. Army while escorting Col. Wells 17th U.S. Infantry from Major General Harrison’s headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stephenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate ...

Point Plantation / Richmond Plantation

Point Plantation

In 1715, John Vanderhorst purchased 540 acres known as the Point for ?360. So began a long line of ownership by this well-known Colonial family. By 1740, John’s son Joseph and 29 slaves lived at the Point ...

Pierre Esprit Radisson and Medard Groseilliers

These brothers-in-law during the winter of 1659-60 camped with the Ottawa Indians two miles upstream from this point on Lac Court Oreilles (meaning "Lake of the Short Ears" in French). Early French explorers called the Ottawa Indians "Court Oreilles." Radisson's ...