Lester J. and Dellora A. Norris

In grateful appreciation to

Lester J. and Dellora A. Norris

Acquisition of this park was made possible when Lester J. and Dellora A. Norris arranged the purchase of the land on April 24, 1964, through their St. Charles, Illinois charities.

The Board of ...

Stratford Civil War Memorial

[ West Face ]

1776

Dedicated To The

Memory Of

Those Who Fought

For Liberty

And Saved The Union

-------

“Yet Loved Ones Have Fallen

And still where they sleep

A sorrowing nation shall

Silently weep,

and spring’s brightest flowers

with gratitude strew

o’er those who once cherished

the red, ...

Colorado Plateau

From this point, the Colorado Plateau extends across northwestern New Mexico into northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and southwestern Colorado. A colorful landscape of mesas and canyons, it is underlain by natural mineral, oil and gas resources locked within sedimentary strata ...

Lamar Stringfield

Musician and composer.

First conductor of the N.C. Symphony, 1932-38.

Boyhood home 3 blks. E.

Marker is on North Person Street near E. Jones Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brackenridge Hospital

When Edwin Waller surveyed the Austin townsite in 1839, he set aside this block, in what was then the northeast corner of the city, for a hospital. The site lay empty until 1884, when the City of Austin and Travis ...

The Boardman-Webb House

In the 1850s Dr. George T. Boardman (d.1884) came to Austin to practice dentistry. He developed a new process to fill teeth and helped incorporate the American Dental College. He bought this property in 1855 from early Austin merchant John ...

The Sea Wing Disaster

On July 13, 1890, the steamer "Sea Wing", with covered barge alongside, and 215 passengers aboard was returning from a Sunday excursion down the Mississippi River to Lake City. At 8 p.m., Captain D.N. Wethern had guided the steamer 5 ...

Roads Through the Battlefield

Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863

Today, much like it was in the nineteenth century, Spotsylvania County contains very few east-west roads. The few that exist, such as Route 3 before you, are heavily used and follow the same routes as their ...

Confederate Defense Turns to Offense

Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863

Confronted by overwhelming numbers, Confederate forces fell back from Chancellorsville (three and a half miles in front of you) and established a defensive position here on April 30. General Robert E. Lee instructed Richard H. Anderson, ...

Stratford American Revolutionary War Memorial

American

Revolutionary War

1775 –– 1783

Dedicated to the brave Patriots

from Stratford who participated

in the struggle to achieve our

Independence

Killed in battle

Zachariah Blakeman

William Thompson

David Wooster

“We hold these truths to be self evident

That all men are created equal.”

Marker is on Academy Hill ...