Battery Park Hotel

The 14-story Battery Park Hotel stands as an architectural and historic monument to Asheville's tourism and development boom of the 1920s. The hotel was erected in 1924 by Edwin W. Grove "as a capstone of his excavation and leveling of ...

Tatham Mound

When Spanish forces invaded Florida early in the 16th century, they left behind an abundance of shiny objects and a trail of death; especially in Florida’s big bend.

Two huge Spanish expeditions led by Narváez in 1528 and Soto in ...

Tri-State Business Center

Quincy's brewers and brick makers, contractors and coopers, foundry and factory workers, and diverse other tradesmen made this Mississippi River community an important center of commerce in Lincoln's day. Quincy's businessmen, whose enterprises attracted business from Missouri, a slave state ...

Steamboats and Railroads

Lincoln traveled to Quincy by stagecoach in 1854 after crossing the Illinois River at Naples. Lincoln's first documented visit was to support the Congressional candidacy of Archibald Williams and to attack the Kansas- Nebraska Act and its author, Stephen A. ...

Lincoln the Candidate

People in Cass County knew Abraham Lincoln not only as a lawyer but also as a candidate for the Illinois legislature and U.S. Congress. Those earlier campaigns allowed Lincoln to hone his political skills for the 1858 senatorial content that ...

1st Missouri, Battery D

Battery D. 1st Mo.

Light Artillery

U.S.A.

Was In Action 1200 Yds.

Northwest Of This Point

Nov. 25, 1863

Marker is on North Crest Road north of Lightfoot Mill Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Washburn Historic Waterfront

Bigelow / Hines Railroad Trestle

In the early days of Washburn, the waterfront was filled with saw mills. The A.A. Bigelow Mill (1887-1902), later to become the Hines Mill, was the largest of three major sawmills in Washburn. It rested on ...

Bayfield Historic Waterfront

Eastern Waterfront / Ferry Dock

Bayfield’s history has been powerfully shaped by its location. Situated on the shores of a deep, natural harbor, the city is sheltered from Lake Superior’s notorious storms by the outlying Apostle Islands. Lighthouses, shipwrecks, and a ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church

Was built on land donated by Thomas Woods & consecrated on August 7, 1900. Father Vincent Arcese, Rector of Saint Josephs' Convent & Sanatorium served as pastor from 1900 until his death in 1946. Humphrey Toomey and Michael Galligan served ...

Here Stood one of the Stage Coach Stations

Here stood one of the stage coach stations placed at regular intervals for the exchange of teams on Mount Hope-Lumberland Turnpike. Chartered 1812 to run from Mount Hope to the Delaware

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 48 ...