Laura Secord

[Front Side of the Monument]:

To perpetuate

the name and fame of

Laura Secord

who walked alone nearly 20

miles by a circuitous difficult

and perilous route, through woods

and swamps and over miry roads

to warn a British outpost at

DeCew’s Falls of an intended attack

and thereby enabled ...

Holding the High Ground

Early on the morning of July 26th, 1814, Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Drummond awaited another attack on the Lundy's Lane hill near Niagara Falls. Throughout the previous night, this hill had been taken and retaken in the bloodiest, most hard fought ...

The Town Square

Reserved for public use in the original 1809 town plan, the public square was also used to establish the early town limits, first drawn as a half-mile radius (1822) and then as a mile radius (1849). This method formed circular ...

Hastings Spiral Bridge

Erected 1895 • Demolished 1951

Hastings Spiral Bridge Only One of Its Kind in America

April 27 1895 eight thousand people commemorated the opening of the new "High Wagon Bridge" across the Mississippi River.

It was built in seven months at a cost ...

Chinese Immigrants

Chinese Immigrants came to Deadwood to make their fortune. After burial in Mt. Moriah, with appropriate ceremonies, the remains were removed for reburial in their home village in China. Not more than two bodies remain in the Chinese Section.

Marker can ...

The Presidential District

History Link: A Trail to Deadwood’s Past

As South Deadwood expanded along Sherman Street in early 1876, log cabins and small frame houses appeared on the hillsides above the mining camp. A cemetery was quickly established on a hill deemed too ...

Sherman Street and the East Side

Deadwood developed along both sides of Whitewood Creek, forming the two main thoroughfares of Main and Sherman Street. In the 1880s the firms on Sherman tended to be small retail and service businesses.

With the arrival of the railroads in the ...

Quaker Burying Ground

Near here was the Meeting House built by the Quakers on four acres of land leased to them by Samuel Wyly on Sept. 6, 1759, for the term of 999 years at a yearly rental of one Pepper Corn, if ...

The Most Reverend Emmet Michael Walsh

Sixth Bishop of Charleston, S.C.

Born in Beaufort South Carolina

March 6, 1892

Consecrated Bishop of Charleston

September 8, 1927

Installed as Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio

November 9, 1949

Died in Youngstown, Ohio

March 16, 1968

I I I    I ...

Church of the Incarnation

Protestant Episcopal

Incorporated in 1871.church was admitted into union. Heirs of John Bach donated the present site. In 1872, the Rev. Herman Cope Duncan, missionary to the area, made first rector.

Marker is on Olive Street.

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