The Death of Marshal Suverkrubbe

About 3 a.m. on December 5, 1932, Fort Calhoun marshal Albert Suverkrubbe was shot while trying to apprehend two men fleeing Kruse's Red and White Grocery at 106 S. Fourteenth Street. Suverkrubbe died from his wounds nine days later, leaving ...

Carlisle First World War Memorial

Erected by Carlisle Civic Club

in memory of the men who lost

their lives in the First World War

1917 - 1918

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Jacob M. Bonner •

Abram DeWalt •

John G. Gutshall •

Samuel J. Harris •

Wilson E. Hench •

Charles J. Hoffsass ...

João Cândido Felisberto Memorial

"O Almirante Negro"

[Panel 1]

João Cândido Felisberto nasceu em 1880, na Vila Sâo José, Encruzilhada do Sul, Distrito de Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul.

De 22 a 26 de Novembro do 1910 liderou a Revolta Dos Marinheiros contra as péssimas condiçôes ...

Centenary Building

Walking Tour Stop 14

In 1827, a German Reformed congregation built a stone church at this location. At the time, a Methodist congregation was housed in a church on Church Alley. The location was not ideal due to boisterous behavior in ...

Washington Camp Ground

Dedicated a historic site in 1889 by citizens of the community to memorialize the encampment of Washington’s Army in 1777 and from Nov. 1778 to June 1779.

The Middlebrook encampment in New Jersey entered the National Register of Historic Places July ...

Maria Montoya Martinez, (Povika, Pond Lily)

(ca. 1886-1980)

Maria Martinez was a self-taught potter who helped elevate Pueblo pottery to a respected art form. She and her husband Julian were successful polychrome potters and together revived black pottery. Their work improved the economic conditions of the community. ...

Bean-Roulston Graveyard

Seven miles west are buried soldiers who took part in every war beginning with the Revolution. Among these is Capt. Robert Bean, credited with significant action at the Battle of King's Mountain.

Marker is on North Cedar Avenue (U.S. 72) south ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Not So "Lucky" Swedes

The Lucky Swede and Pearson Mining Companies used this siding to bring in mining equipment and hopefully, send out copper ore…

According to old-timer Harold Theriault,

“The lucky Swede Mine was a fairly large company, but only on paper. It had a ...

Richmond Battlefields

Parker's Battery Trail

McClellan’s Federals attacked in 1862, then Grant in ’64, while Joseph E. Johnston and then Robert E. Lee defended. The two major assaults on the Confederate capital fanned out in a series of battles, skirmishers and marches.

Tour the ...

Battle of Boundbrook

[Front of monument]:

This stone marks the site of the Battle of Boundbrook, fought April 13, 1777, between 500 American soldiers under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln and 4,000 British troops under Lord Cornwallis.

[Back of monument]:

Boundbrook Battle Monument

Marker is on E High Street, ...