First Soil Conservation District Plan

On February 4, 1938, Mrs. Ploma M. Adams, owner of this farm, assisted by the Upper Savannah Soil Conservation District, initiated the first Farm-Conservation Plan of any district in America.

Marker is on West South 4th Street, on the left when ...

The Meade Pyramid

The Battle of Fredericksburg

Usually thought of as a Union monument, the large pyramid in front of you was in fact erected by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. In 1897, the society contacted Virginia railroad executives asking them to erect markers ...

Race to the Clouds

Can you imagine racing up a mountain that has 1,000 foot drop-offs? That’s exactly what daring drivers have been doing since 1916. That was the year mining magnate Spencer Penrose announced the first Pikes Peak National Hill Climbing Contest to ...

Courthouse Burned

[ Side One ]

Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during Civil War, nineteen in last fifteen months: twelve by Confederates, eight by guerrillas, two by Union accident.

See map on reverse side.

The courthouse at Hodgenville was burned by guerrillas Feb. 21, 1865. ...

Engines of Destruction

The Battle of Fredericksburg

On December 13, 1862, nine Confederate cannon on this knoll helped repulse one of two major Union attacks against Jackson's front. At noon, Union infantry crashed into the Confederate infantry line to your right-front. Captain Greenlee Davidson's ...

13th Troop Carrier Squadron

1940 - 1946

In honor of the men who served the

13th Troop Carrier Squadron

who flew with pride and served with honor in WWII

Four years in the

South and Southwest Pacific

Guadalcanal to the Philippines

A Job Needed to Be Done - We Did It

“The ...

Rockport World War I & II Memorial

These Our Dead In Honored Glory Rest

World War I

1917   1918

James E. Bryan R.C.A.

John A. Carlson U.S.A.

Dwight P. Dutton U.S.M.C.

Edward R. Everett U.S.A.

Harold T. Grover U.S.A.

Edward Peterson U.S.A.

World War II

1941 ...

Stricken Down in the Performance of Duty

In tribute to Major Joseph Hamilton Daviess, Grand Master of Masons in Kentucky, who fell in battle here, and to the many Freemasons of General Harrison's command whose valor is held in grateful remembrance.

Marker is on Battleground Avenue near North ...

Second Schweinfurt Memorial

Second Schweinfurt

Memorial Association

presents and dedicates this memorial

to the memory of the airmen of the

United States Army 8th Air Force

who against overwhelming odds

and savage defiance

attacked and destroyed

the ball bearing factories in

Schweinfurt, Germany

14 October 1943

Officially known as

Mission No. 115

Known by those who ...

Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery.

4-3 inch Rifles.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Capt. Hiram M. Bledsoe, Commanding.

1st Lieut. R. L. Wood.

1st Lieut. C. W. Higgins.

2d Lieut. E. W. Anderson.

2d Lieut. L. L. Maughas.

2d Lieut. J. S. Wheatley.

Nov. 25, 1863.

The battery came into ...