Minnesota, Brown County, New Ulm
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Brown County, an historic gateway on the Minnesota River, opened the fertile prairie lands of the Great Plains to the northern hardwoods of a continental divide. The U.S. Territorial Legislature organized the county in 1856 from lands ceded by the Treaty of Traverse de' Sioux (1851), named the county after territorial councilor Joseph R. Brown and designated New Ulm as the county seat.
Originally extending west to the Missouri River, Brown County included lands reserved for Dakota tribes. A cultural clash between the Dakota nation, new immigrants and government policies sparked the tragic Dakota Conflict (1862) in areas of Brown County. By 1865 the State of Minnesota narrowed the county to its present size.
Earliest pioneers, mainly Germans, claimed lands adjacent to the Minnesota and Cottonwood Rivers. Norwegians settled the lake country around Lake Hanska. English, Irish and Danes helped to populate the county, particularly along the Cottonwood River and in the western parts. The coming of the railroad (1870s) shaped the townships and helped to make New Ulm, Sleepy Eye and Springfield into chief commercial and industrial centers that served the county's historic agricultural base.
(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Brown County, an historic gateway on the Minnesota River, opened the fertile prairie lands of the Great Plains to the northern hardwoods of a continental divide. The U.S. Territorial Legislature organized the county in 1856 from lands ceded by the Treaty of Traverse de' Sioux (1851), named the county after territorial councilor Joseph R. Brown and designated New Ulm as the county seat.
Originally extending west to the Missouri River, Brown County included lands reserved for Dakota tribes. A cultural clash between the Dakota nation, new immigrants and government policies sparked the tragic Dakota Conflict (1862) in areas of Brown County. By 1865 the State of Minnesota narrowed the county to its present size.
Earliest pioneers, mainly Germans, claimed lands adjacent to the Minnesota and Cottonwood Rivers. Norwegians settled the lake country around Lake Hanska. English, Irish and Danes helped to populate the county, particularly along the Cottonwood River and in the western parts. The coming of the railroad (1870s) shaped the townships and helped to make New Ulm, Sleepy Eye and Springfield into chief commercial and industrial centers that served the county's historic agricultural base.
(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Boarded by two rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay, Dorchester County is graced with expansive marshes, fertile farmland, and scented pine forests. Here on the south shore of the Choptank River, the county seat of Cambridge boasts the only deep water port on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. 
Take a stroll along our one mile waterfront trail. This boardwalk stretches from the Franklin Street boat ramp, near Governor’s Hall, to the end of the Choptank River fishing pier. 
Larger cannon -- and more cannon -- came to Fort McHenry during the Civil War period. To provide safe storage for the additional gunpowder and ammunition, the Army built this magazine in 1864.
Colonial home of Colonel Robert Palmer, Surveyor-General of North Carolina 1753-1771 and Collector of Customs for the Port of Bath. Built c. 1744, probably by Michael Coutanche, it is one of the oldest surviving dwelling-houses in the State. Governor William Tryon described Palmer’s home as “a very excellent house . . . at Bath which I often resided in with my family, being Hospitably entertained.” After Colonel Palmer left for England in 1771, his son lived in the house until the mid 1780’s. In the 19th Century it was the home of the Jonathan Marsh family, shipowners and merchants, originally from Rhode Island.
Beginning in the late 17th century, large waves of European settlers flooded into William Penn's colony in pursuit of opportunity and religious freedom. By the early 19th century, American Lutheran leaders realized that an institution dedicated to the training of pastors would be needed to address the spiritual needs of growing congregations in the expanding settlements of the country. 
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg held its inaugural session in 1826 with one professor, eight students, a small collection of books, and less than $1700. Seminarians adhered to a rigid schedule. The day started with a 5:00 a.m. worship service, followed by classes and study hours.
The Seminary constructed this large Romanesque Revival building in 1894-95 as the Seminary's "Recitation Hall." Architect John Dempwolf designed the structure and its counterpart on the Gettysburg College campus which can be seen to the Northeast. The building was designed to serve all the main functions, of classrooms, library, faculty offices and dormitory rooms for students. Its construction marked a period of steady physical expansion which began under Milton Valentine, for whom it is named, a distinguished Lutheran theologian and fourth president of the seminary. Extensively renovated for the seminary's 175th anniversary in 2001, the building now features an expanded facade and state of the art classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, an auditorium, and bookstore. Continuing its pioneering role in theological education, this building hosted the first female faculty member, Bertha Paulssen, a refugee from Nazi Germany who introduced sociology and psychology to the curriculum in the mid 20th Century.
Newell Avery Eddy Jr., who built the Presque Isle Lodge, was born in Bay City in 1880 to a lumbering family that had relocated from Maine to Michigan's Saginaw Valley in the early 1850s. In addition to the Eddy Brothers and Company lumber operation, the family's business interests included Michigan mines and Great Lakes shipping. Eddy believed this lodge, constructed without the aid of electricity, exemplified the "pioneer spirit and artistic taste" of his New England ancestors. The resort's furnishings were built exclusively for the lodge in a small shop to its rear. They were so popular with guests that shortly after the lodge opened Eddy formed Habitant Shops, Inc. to meet the demand for the knotty pine furniture.
In 1824, settler Simon Covert led Thomas Henderson to Big Spring. A church, school and cemetery were envisioned to the south. Henderson outwitted a man seeking this spring site for a whiskey distillery. His family, vanguard of anti-slavery Kentuckians, arriving late Saturday, Sept. 1825, reverently observed Sunday, unloading their wagons Monday.
