From a Letter of The Rev. Edward Sorin, CSC

to the Very Reverend Basil Moreau, CSC

Notre Dame du Lac

December, 5, 1842

Beloved Father,

When we least dreamed of it, we were offered an excellent piece of property, about 640 acres in extent. This land is located in the county of St. ...

The Land

By 1782, more than a century of settlement and eight years of military occupation had left much of the Hudson River’s waterfront deforested. Nevertheless, the Quartermaster Department, responsible for securing the army’s living quarters, found a suitable site for a ...

Dunlawton's Building Blocks

coquina up close

The ruins here include chimneys and other structures made of coquina, Spanish for "tiny shell." Quarried locally (and elsewhere in the Southeast), this native stone contains mollusk shell fragments and quartz sand, bound together by calcium carbonate. Centuries ...

Shiloh Methodist Church

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Shiloh Methodist Church, the outgrowth of the earliest known Methodist place of worship in this community, has had a church building on this site for over 125 years. Originally, services started by a local hermit "who lived by a spring," ...

The Dunlawton Sugar Factory

Great Expectations:

These are the ruins of people's dreams, left by successive landowners, free workers, and slaves. Hoping to make sugar in the nineteenth century, they faced isolation, hurricanes, and dispossessed Seminoles. Some lost money in their ventures, and others lost ...

The Red Brick Schoolhouse

This former one room

Schoolhouse was the

original Ridgewood Grove

School Number 44. Built

in 1846 it was used

until 1894 by Ridgewood

Township. In 1894 the

proposed closing of this

school resulted in the

incorporation of the

Borough of ...

Miami Legend of the Sandhill Crane

Long before settlers appeared on the scene, the American Indian people here used the sandhill crane as a symbol for their tribe. Early British and American officials referred to the people we know as Miami as “Twightwees” in various spellings ...

The Fur Traders and the Military at Fort Wayne

The French built Fort St. Philippe (Fort Miamis) west of this area by 1722, to command the land portage here between the Maumee and Wabash Rivers. It was important to the French to protect the area in their political competition ...

Hopper Homestead

North wing built 1780

by Hendrick H. Hopper

in area then called

“Small Lots”.

Center section erected by

son John, in early 1800’s.

The farmhouse was sold

to the Hillmann family

in 1895, ending

four generations and

115 years of continuous

Hopper ownership.

Marker is at the intersection of Hillman Avenue ...

"The Publick Building Called the Temple"

Chaplain Israel Evans proposed building a “Temple of Virtue” where officers could assemble for meetings and the army could worship together rather than attend separate services around town or ignore the Sabbath completely. To this end, soldiers provided 5,000 feet ...