Welcome to the Prairie

You have arrived at the only unit in the National Park Service dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Tallgrass prairie once covered a vast region that stretched from Mexico into Canada. Today, only a small fraction - perhaps less than ...

Little Barn on the Prairie

Upon completion, ranch owner Stephen F. Jones learned that his barn was one of the largest barns in the state of Kansas at the time.

Like most of the buildings on the ranch, the Spring Hill barn was built of limestone ...

Spring Hill Ranch

has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses

national significance in

commemorating the history

of the United States of America

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Anderson Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Anderson Presbyterian

Church Cemetery

Founded 1837

Land Given by

Judge J.N. Whitner

Used as the First

Public Burial Ground

For the Village

Marker can be reached from West Whitner Street (State Highway 24).

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Westview Cemetery World War Memorial

In Memory of World War Casualties

War No. I

Thomas Adjer

Scott Hill

Ollie Rutledge

War No. II

James Joyner

Johnnie M. Leroy

Frank Lewis

John M. McBride

Mayor

Richard A. Shirley

City Manager

John R. Moore, Jr.

Public Works Director

M. Anthony Norris

City Council Members

Beatrice R. Thompson

Thomas W. Dunaway III

James A. Stewart

Dennis H. McKee

Blake ...

Ebenezer AME Church

This church is part of the African Methodist Episcopal congregation, the oldest independent black institution in the country. The origins of the A.M.E. church date back to the late 18th century, when blacks withdrew from the parent Methodist Church in ...

Happy Home Baptist Church

(Front text)

This church, founded soon after the Civil War, held its first services in a brush arbor in the Woods community of what was then Barnwell County. It built its first permanent church, a frame building, in the ...

Spanish American War Monument

Dedicated

to the

United

Spanish War Veterans

1898 - 1902

Marker is at the intersection of Lafayette Street and N. Lakewood Avenue on Lafayette Street.

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Brock's Cenotaph

[Text on North Side of Marker]:

Near the spot

Major-General

Sir Isaac Brock, K.C.B.

Provisional Lieutenant

Governor of Upper Canada

fell on 13 - October, 1812

while advancing to repel

the invading enemy.

[Text on South Side of Marker]:

This stone

Was placed by His Royal Highness

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

on ...

Brown's Point

Brown's Point

Here Gen. Sir Isaac Brock

called out on his way to

Queenston Heights

13th October 1812

"Push On

York Volunteers."

Marker is on Niagara Parkway just south of Brown's Point Circle, on the left when traveling south.

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