Illinois State Register

November 1858 Register notices published on Election Day and the day after---documenting the end of the heated and hectic Lincoln-Douglas Senatorial contest.When the seat of government left Vandalia in 1839, the former capital;s Democratic newspaper---the Illinois State Register---followed. Its offices ...

Loantaka Trail

The Morris County Park Commission dedicates this recreation trail to the greater environmental enjoyment of its citizens. Made possible by the generous donation of lands by Dr. and Mrs. Adrian T. Platt and Family.

Marker can be reached from Loantaka Way, ...

Ohio Columbus Barber

1891

Founder

City of Barberton

Sculptors, Virgil and Zak Villers

Dedicated September 29, 2007

Marker is at the intersection of Lake Avenue and 3rd Street NW, on the left when traveling west on Lake Avenue.

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Capt. Charles F. Rand

In Memory of

A native Batavian who once lived at No. 4 Liberty Street. Charles Franklin Rand is officially recognized by the Congress of the United States as the first person to answer President Lincoln's appeal for volunteers in the ...

Centennial Park

Commemorating One Hundred Years

of educating blind students in

Batavia at the New York State

School for the Blind - First Opened

in September of 1868

Marker is on Richmond Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

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Joshua Speed's Store

There was a housing shortage in Springfield when 28 year old Abraham Lincoln---riding a borrowed horse---moved here from New Salem in April 1837. Builders couldn't keep up with the newly designated state capital. One of Lincoln's first stops was at ...

Staff Sergeant Howard E. Woodford

June 21 1921 - June 7, 1945

Third Battalion, 130th Infantry

33rd Division, Army of the United States

Posthumously Awarded the

Congressional Medal of Honor

By his daring, skillful, and inspiring leadership, as well as by his gallant determination to search out and kill the ...

Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Wilderness Area

You are about to enter the Wilderness Area of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Designated by Congress in 1968, this area is part of the 100-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System. It is distinguished in being the first designated Wilderness ...

Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum

Civil War to Civil Rights

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington

“The neighborhood was our whole life.” Albert Small, born in the neighborhood in 1902.

This is the oldest surviving synagogue building in Washington. Constructed in 1875 by Adas Israel Congregation, and ...

Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site

Welcome to Historic Camden

Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site is located at the original site of Camden, the oldest inland town in South Carolina. Established in 1733, colonial Camden emerged as the trade center of the backcountry by the 1760s.

On ...