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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NT_home-of-chief-richardville_Huntington-IN.html
Jean Baptiste Richardville(Pe-she-wah), 1761-1841last great chief of the Miamis, made the forks of the Wabash his principal residence. His mother was the influential Tau-cum-wah sister of Chief Little Turtle.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NS_wabash-and-erie-canal_Delphi-IN.html
Constructed 1832-1853, canal was nation's longest, connecting Lake Erie at Toledo with Ohio River at Evansville. Key portion in Carroll County included Deer Creek Lake Dam, constructed 1838-1840 (1 mile west). Various canal structures are still in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NR_william-holmes-mcguffey_Claysville-PA.html
Educator and author of the famed McGuffey Eclectic Readers for grade schools, was born five miles SW of here, Sept. 23, 1800. First published in 1836, the Readers sold 122 million copies during the next 85 years and were used in some 35 states. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NQ_site-of-cabin-home-gen-samuel-milroy_Delphi-IN.html
Site ofCabin HomeGen.Samuel Milroy1826
On the banks o' Deer Crick
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NP_samuel-milroy_Delphi-IN.html
[front of marker]Samuel Milroy was born 1780 in Pennsylvania and is a "Child of the American Revolution". His father served as a Patriot in the war for Independence. In 1826, at the age of 46, Samuel moved to Carroll County and built a cabin, whic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NO_early-baptists-at-tuckasee-king_Clyo-GA.html
Soon after 1767, the Rev. Benjamin Stirk, who had been baptized at the Orphan House, visited Tuckasee King and, finding a number of Baptists there, began to preach to them. As there was then no Baptist Church in Georgia, an arm of the church at Eu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NN_lamar-stringfield_Raleigh-NC.html
Musician and composer.First conductor of the N.C. Symphony, 1932-38.Boyhood home 3 blks. E.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NM_opening-of-the-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Following its defeat at Fredericksburg in December 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac spent the winter in Stafford County. Across the Rappahannock River, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia kept a defensive position that covered a 25-mile s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NL_monroe-cemetery_Arkdale-WI.html
Ira and Ransom Gleason, father and uncle to Charlotte and Francis Marion Rous set aside the original acre of land for this cemetery, from the land they obtained through the Public Lands Act of 1820. This plaque in memory of Edna Rous Russell and H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NK_roads-through-the-battlefield_Fredericksburg-VA.html
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 antebellum predecessors.
The first im…