Highlanders Decline Combat

The Battle of Monmouth

“What a pity it is to throw away such men as these” Captain – Lieutenant John Peebles, Royal Highland Regiment

Here, in what was Derick Sutfin’s cider orchard, 300 Royal Highlanders found themselves in an awkward position. ...

Howard M. Temin

1934-1994

This path is dedicated to the memory of

Howard M. Temin

1934-1994

Distinguished Professor of Oncology (1960-1994)

Eminent Virologist at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)

National Medal of Science, USA (1992)

Exceptional seeker of truth in ...

Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

This monument, dedicated July 4, 1894, honors Cuyahoga County men and women, who performed military and patriotic duties during the Civil War (1861-1865). William J. Gleason (1846-1905), army veteran and local businessman, proposed its creation in 1879. Captain Levi Tucker ...

Second Courthouse

First courthouse at Wilmington, 1824~32. Second courthouse, a two story brick structure, 36 feet square, built near here at a cost of $3,049, on land given by Gen. William Clark, founder of Paducah. Courthouse also provided meeting place for various ...

Proposed First University in English America

A "University and College" was authorized by the Virginia Company charter of 1618 at Henrico Town but never opened. Some 10,000 acres on the James River upstream from the new town were to provide agricultural income for the school. The ...

Raymond C. Schultz Park

This riverfront park is dedicated to Raymond C. Schultz, celebrated public official who served as McCracken County Judge Executive from 1974 to 1985. An Ohio county native, Judge Schultz was born July 8, 1911. He was a graduate and lecture ...

City of San Antonio, Florida

Judge Edmund F. Dunne, ex-Chief Justice of Arizona, founded the Catholic Colony of San Antonio, Florida in 1881. Judge Dunne was a distinguished Catholic layman, a famous jurist, an editor, linguist, horticulturist, world traveler, and life long scholar and educator.

Iron Made in Kentucky / Grand River Furnace

Iron Made in Kentucky

A Major producer since 1791, Ky ranked 3rd in US in 1830s, 11th in limestone supplied material for numerous furnaces making pig iron, utensils, munitions in the Hanging Rock, Red River, Between Rivers, Rolling Fork, Green River ...

43rd New York Infantry

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):43d New York Infantry,

3d Brig. 2d Div. 6th Corps.

Arrived on field 4 p.m. July 2d 1863.

Held this position from the morning

of July 3d until close of battle.

(Back):The State of New York ...

The Arcade

An Historic Landmark in Architecture

Designed by John M. Eisemann and George H. Smith as a big city mercantile center. The five-story galleries connect the ten story towers facing the city's two main thoroughfares. Of unique architectural design and of ...