Forest Hill Confederate Memorial

(Front):

In memory of our Confederate Dead

(Reverse):

To the brave soldiers who fell in the Battle of Westport October 23, 1864.

Marker can be reached from Troost Avenue 0.3 miles north of 71st Street.

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First Complete Service of Christian Divine Worship

This bluff (commonly called "Grandad Bluff") was the site of the first complete service of Christian Divine Worship to be conducted in La Crosse. The Reverend Father James Lloyd Breck and his company of pioneer missionaries, on the morning of ...

Alabama’s Constitution And Statehood

Before statehood, the Alabama Territory had only limited rights of self government. Between July 5 and August 2, 1819, forty-four delegates from across the Territory convened in Huntsville to draft a constitution for statehood. Lawyers, merchants, ministers, planters, farmers, and ...

Alabama River: The Grand Avenue

Twelve miles above Montgomery the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers unite to form the Alabama which meanders over four hundred miles on its way to Mobile Bay. This river has played major role in region's history, being a thoroughfare for Native ...

Captain Frederick Pabst

(1836 – 1904)

Of German birth, Pabst became a ship's captain in the 1850s and moved to Milwaukee in the 1860s. He later joined his father-in-law's brewery (founded 1844), which was renamed the Pabst Brewery in 1889. By the 1890s ...

The Old Academy

The Old Academy

Erected 1801 – 1804 by the first school society to further the cause of higher education; Daniel Buck, Levi Churchill, Stephen Chester, committee. The school herein established was later greatly helped by income from funds donated by the ...

Wethersfield

Wethersfield

First Settled 1634

As a Trading Post

By John Oldham

And Associates

Marker is at the intersection of Wells Road and Spring Street, on the right when traveling east on Wells Road.

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Newington World War I Monument

1917 1918

In Honor Of

The Citizens Of Newington

Who Served In The World War

And In Memory

Of Those Who Made The

Supreme Sacrifice

Abucewicz, Charles • Anderson, Frederick • Backus, Charles L. Jr. • Banford, Laurie B. • Baukat, James G. • Belfiori, Samuel • ...

Confederate Memorial

North Side

"Lest We Forget." This shaft is erected to honor and perpetuate the memory and valor of our Confederate Soldiers.

West Side

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

South Side

Comrades

Soldiers of Pike, ...

Hastings Cutoff - Muddy Creek

"At three o'clock p.m. we crossed Muddy Creek, a beautiful clear stream of water with a pebbly bottom, and camped on the west side after traveling 3 miles during the day ... we had a pretty campground... The brethren sang ...