The Amistad Incident

Galvanizing Abolitionists

In the summer of 1839, the Amistad, a Spanish coastal schooner with 39 kidnapped Africans aboard, was found in Long Island Sound and brought to New London. The captives, who had been sold into slavery in Cuba, had taken ...

A Memorial To The Soldiers Who Served

[ east side ]

A Memorial

To The Soldiers Who Served

Faithfully and Honorably

In The Civil War

1861 – 1865

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Erected by a Comrade

Major Walter Burnham

[ west side ]

Buried In This Cemetery

Burnham Walter • Barden Jesse A. • Bolles Andrew J. • Brague Edward ...

Mother Seton's Rock

1809 - 1821

Here on Sunday afternoons Mother Seton "seated on a rock known as Hers," taught Christian Doctrine to the children of The Mountain Parish.

"They that instruct many to Justice shall Shine as the Stars for all Eternity." - Daniel ...

Site of the Hiram S. Allen Home

This Columbia Street site was the location of the ornate pioneer mansion built by Hiram Stores Allen. Called the founder of Chippewa Falls, Hiram built the first grist-mill, the first flour-mill, and the first hotel in Chippewa Falls. He operated ...

Site of the Home of William Hugh Smith

Legislator, Governor

An opponent of secession, he fled north in 1862. Returning after the Civil War, he was elected first governor under the Constitution of 1868 and served one two-year term. He was one of three Republican governors.

Marker is at the ...

The First Milwaukeeans

Indian villagers are credited with giving Milwaukee its name, which may have derived from Mahnawauk, Meolaki or Milwacky. Those words may be references to the Milwaukee River or a medicinal plant, but the most common translation is "good land."

Beatrice's Own - Civil War and the Spanish-American War

We Answered the Call

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter, South Carolina was fired on by Rebel forces. On the 18th of May, Nebraska Territory Governor Alvin Saunders issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to either answer the call from President Lincoln ...

The Ice King, the Castle Captain, and the She-Merchant

Located against the back fence of the burying ground is the Tudor family tomb, marked by a gravestone for John Tudor, Esquire (1709-1795),. The Tudor family legacy began with John Tudor, a baker and deacon of Second Church, who chronicled ...

The Marion Engineer Depot

Side A:

Early in 1942, during World War II, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired 640 acres along two miles of U. S. Route 30 South (now State Route 309) from ten landowners. By June 11 of that year, ...

The Matton Shipyard

The Matton Shipyard

John E. Matton built his shipyard here on Van Schaick Island in 1916, shortly after the new Barge Canal opened. Besides building barges and tugboats, the shipyard serviced and repaired the boats that travelled both the Erie ...