The First Dance

Bascom Hill Historic District

When the University of Wisconsin started the country's first college dance program in 1926, the goal was to teach more than dance. The program's founder, Margaret H'Doubler, wanted the women's physical education program to be "worth a ...

Near this site Fort Huntington was Erected

Near this site

Fort Huntington was erected

by Captain Stanton Sholes' Company

May, 1813.

On June 19, 1813, a part of the British flee appeared off the fort but was driven away by a storm and no attack made. General ...

Boothill Graveyard

1878-1884

This Tombstone Cemetery gives mute testimony to the hardships of Western frontier life. The people buried here were housewives, painted ladies, outlaws, gamblers, miners, business men and women, blacksmiths, cowboys and those "who died with their boots on". Among its ...

Reed Bingham State Park Bridge

This bridge, which connects the Cook County side of Reed Bingham State Park with the Colquitt County side, was completed in 1974 and was dedicated on July 13, 1974 by Governor Jimmy Carter.

Serving as an outstanding state park facility for ...

Corydon Convention Of Freemasons

In the home of Reuben W. Nelson two blocks east of here, eleven Master Masons representing the nine lodges of Indiana assembled Dec. 3, 1817 and called a meeting at Madison to organize a Grand Lodge.

Marker is on North Elm ...

Studebaker

On this site in 1835 John Studebaker erected his home and shop with this legend over the door:

"Owe no man anything but love one another"

Here were born three of his sons who later founded the Studebaker institution in South Bend, ...

Erected to the Memory of the Pioneers of the Millerton Area Whos

Winchell Cove Cemetery

The site of Fort Miller (1851-1866) lies about one mile north and that of the pioneer town of Millerton (1851-1874) about one and one-half miles northwest on the then Visalia - Stockton Road. Both sites are now covered ...

Third Brigade

Second Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps Second Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Neill

7th Maine (6 cos.) 43d. 49th. 77th. New York

61st. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 2 Arrived after a march of 33 miles from Manchester Md. and about 6 ...

The Old Stone Church

Religious worship began on this site in 1820 as a Plan of the Union Sunday School with ministers recruited by the Connecticut Home Missionary Society. Its first stone church, officially known as the First Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, was built ...

Pendleton

On April 8, 1790, the Justices of the Peace for Pendleton County purchased this land to establish the courthouse town of Pendleton. Once Cherokee Indian land, the town became the judicial, social and commercial center for what now are Anderson, ...