Duck Creek: Early Industry and Business Development

Fort Wayne business had a start on Duck Street, named for the 19th century Duck Creek that drained the area from the higher ground near Superior Street into the St. Mary’s River. Along Duck Creek in the 1840s and 50s ...

Earliest Railroad

The Wabash & Erie Canal was instrumental in the construction of the first railways in Fort Wayne, which quickly became a railroading center in the Midwest. In 1852, along the canal at the present-day railroad elevation that borders the south ...

First State Bank of Girard

First Brick Bldg.

in Crawford Co.

Erected by Franklin Playter

1870

Owned by

state's first woman banker

Sarah A. Haldeman

1905 - 1915

First home of

Mr. and Mrs. E Haldeman-Julius

1915 - 1918

Marker is on Prairie Street near Summit Street (Kansas Route 7), on the right when traveling east. ...

Columbia United Methodist Church

This congregation traces its history to early Methodist missionary activity during Texas' years as a republic in 1839. The Rev. Isaac L. G. Strickland was assigned to the Brazoria Circuit and organized a Methodist Church in Columbia (now West Columbia), ...

In Honor of the Students of

Wellford-Lyman-Tucapau High School

Who served in the Armed Forces

of there Country in World War II

and in loving memory of those who gave their lives

1941-1945

In Memoriam

James Redmond Barry • Lethco Augustus Groce, Jr.•

Lee Earl Brown Daniel Carey Morgan

Ellis Perry Bruce • Thomas ...

The Builders were Human

In 1682, a new engineer found that this bastion had been built 3 feet too low! By 1686, such mistakes were corrected. Labor for the fort included 100 Indians and Spaniards, plus a few convicts and slaves. Indian laborers got ...

Old Military Road

You are traveling the route of the Old Military Road, built in 1835-36, to connect Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien and Fort Howard at Green Bay, via Fort Winnebago at "The Portage" between the Fox-Wisconsin rivers. The section from ...

Site of the Surrender of Columbia, SC

Erected

Feb. 17, 1914

by

Wade Hampton Chapter, U.D.C.

On the spot where

Mayor T.J. Goodwyn

surrendered the city of Columbia

to

Gen. W.T. Sherman

Feb. 17, 1865

Councilmen

O.Z. Bates • Samuel Leapheart

John Stork • John McKenzie

W.B. Stanley • Clark Waring

Marker is at the intersection of River Drive and Beaufort ...

Old Military Road - 100 Mile Point

In July, 1833, Lt. Alexander Center blazed a nearby oak, marking the 100-mile point of a military road he and James Doty were surveying. The Old Military Road, built from 1835 to 1837, connected Ft. Crawford at Prairie du Chien, ...

Old Columbia Cemetery

Site given by Josiah H. Bell family out of their grant, the first deeded to one of "Old 300" in colony of Stephen F. Austin. Has graves of many heroes of Texas Revolution of 1836.

Deeded in 1852 to Bethel ...