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Mansker's Station

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Tennessee, Sumner County, Goodlettsville
In 1780, a longhunter of German descent named Kasper Mansker, settled in the Goodlettsville area and established his own forted station. It was on the west side of Mansker Creek that he built his first station, which the inhabitants would leave during the winter of 1780-1781 due to increasing attacks from Indians.

Shortly after Mansker left the first station it was burned to the ground. In 1783, Kasper Mansker returned to the area and built a second station on the east bank of Mansker Creek. Here he lived with his wife Elizabeth and others, including Isaac Bledsoe.

Kasper Mansker, like others such as John Donelson, James Robertson, and Isaac Bledsoe, helped form the beginnings of local government. He signed the Cumberland Compact, which provided guidelines for the creation of government in the developing Cumberland region. In 1784, Mansker was elected to serve as the first Captain in Davidson County.

At the age of 62, Kasper Mansker volunteered to serve in the War of 1812, returning home shortly after fighting in the Battle of New Orleans. Mansker lived at his home in Sumner County until his death in 1821 at the age of 75.

Historic Mansker's Station is an authentic reconstruction of a 1779-1790 frontier forted station typical of early Cumberland settlements. While at the fort, you can experience the lifestyles of early settlers through living history demonstrations. (Inscription under the photo in the lower left) "Into the Opening" by David Wright

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Heaton's Station

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
On his bluff in 1780, pioneers who came with James Robertson built Heaton's (also spelled Eaton's) station. It and two other forts (Nashborough and Freeland's) withstood all Indian attacks and saved the Cumberland settlements. On the river below were successively a buffalo ford, ferry, and Lock 1. The home of Amos Heaton stood 100 feet north.

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Temple Cemetery

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
The Temple Cemetery was established in 1851 with the purchase of three acres by the Hebrew Benevolent Burial Association and still serves Nashville's first Jewish congregation, The Temple, Congregation Ohabal Sholom. It blends early urban burial ground practices with picturesque elements of later Victorian garden cemeteries. The Temple Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nashville Sit-Ins

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
Formerly located at his site was First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, headquarters of the 1960s Sit-In Movement, led by Rev. Kelly Miller Smith. Strategy sessions, non-violence workshops, mass meetings, victory celebrations, and administrative offices were here. The well disciplined Nashville Sit-Ins served as a model for civil rights demonstrations throughout the South.

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • Civil Rights) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Original Gas Works

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
The Nashville Gas Light Co., founded Mar. 1850, with General Washington Barrow, President, built first gas works in Tennessee for manufacturing gas from coal. First street lamp was lighted Feb. 13, 1851 at Second Ave. North and Public Square. Natural gas piped from Texas was first used in Nashville on August 5, 1946.

(Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp Maple Swamp

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Ohio, Darke County, Castine
The army of Maj. Gen. Arthur camped on the southern margin of Maple Swamp at the headwaters of Twin Creek. One and a half miles west of this site at noon on October 11, 1791 A.D. on account of the marshy condition of the ground it was necessary to delay the advance until the following afternoon when the army veered to the northeast and struck a well worn Indian path leading through the prairie and avoiding the wet places. The army gained about five and a half miles this day and camped on bottom land along a small stream probably near the large spring at the entrance of Wayne Lakes Park. This was the first recorded entrance of a body of white Americans within the confines of Darke County, Ohio. Distance sixty- two miles from Fort Washington (Cincinnati, Ohio.) Tablet furnished by Mrs. Grace M. Katzenberger member Fort Greenville Chapter D.A.R. Boulder donated by Samuel Routzong A.D. 1936

(Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James K. Polk

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
The house which stood about 100 feet west was built in 1815 by Felix Grundy. James K. Polk bought it while President in 1847. He came home to it on expiration of his term of office and died here, June 15, 1849. His widow occupied it until her death in 1891. It was later owned by Jacob McGavock Dickinson, Secretary of War, 1908-1912, and a descendant of Grundy.

(Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Island Flyer

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Washington, Skagit County, Anacortes


Captain Blackwood's Handsome Launch. Plying Between Bellingham and Anacortes. Two Trips Daily. The Handsomest and Most Commodius and Sea Worthy Boat of the Kind on Puget Sound. 1907

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Causland Park

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Washington, Skagit County, Anacortes


John Bapiste LePage (1857-1939), the French-Canadian artist and architect, designed this unique memorial park and supervised its construction by local volunteers. Great Northern Railroad donated the park site, and costs were paid by contributors and the City of Anacortes. Construction took place from 1919 to 1921.

May 7, 1981

(Entertainment • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Causland Memorial Park

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Washington, Skagit County, Anacortes

One of the one hundred immortals D.S.C. 6795.
This park is dedicated to the honored memory of the brave sons of Fidalgo, Guemes, Decatur and Cypress Islands who at the call of their country entered the service and gave their lives in the Great War for world wide liberty
1917 - 1919

Irving Henry Barbee • Leo Steve Bruett • Charles E. Burch • Arthur Edven Carlson • Harry Leon Causland • Harry Lewis Grimes • Nathaniel Inman Hudson • Thomas Tell Huntley • Earl Chester Jenkins • Carl Harry Johnson • John Morris Jones • Chester Arthur Munks • Frank Robinson Norvell • Robert Frazer Warren

(Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Memorial

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Washington, Skagit County, Anacortes


World War II
Barney Marvin Allen • Phillip Olander Allen • Robert Lee Allen • Rodger D. Andrews • John Walter Barber • Arthur D. Blackrud • Archie Eugene Brown • Kenneth G. Detwiler • William J. Dwelley • Patrick H. George • Albert James Gray • Robert Hammarlund • Clayton G. Kingston • Herbert O. Leckman • Roy Robert McKinley • Kenneth E. Mitchell • Lloyd J. Rodin • Oakley A. Simon • Harding A. Smith • Jay V. Thomson • Richard Bliss White • Lloyd A Wilson

Korea
George Duane Brado • Glenn A. Snider

Vietnam
Darwin Harold Engman • Howard Gulliksen • Russell Cranston Hibler • Gordon Wesley Logan Jr

Dedicated November 11, 1988

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp Mississinewa

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Ohio, Darke County, near Ansonia
The army of Major General Arthur s. Clair advanced from Camp Sulphur Springs on Wednesday Nov. 2nd, 1791 A.D. using where practical the old trail following the higher ground between the marshes, crossed the Stillwater River about noon and were joined by another much more frequented Indian path coming up the valley of the stream. At this camp the troops were drawn up in two parallel lines facing the creek, with the artillery in the center. On Nov. 3rd, the final advance of eight miles was made to the fateful battleground on the bank of the Upper Wabash River present site of Fort Recovery, Ohio. Distance of the camp from Fort Washington. eighty- nine miles by the army survey line. Tablet furnished by Fred D. Coppock 1937 A.D.

(Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pierre Pauquette Ferry

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Wisconsin, Columbia County, Portage
Landing place of the ferry built by Pierre Pauquette and operated by him from about 1828 until his death in 1836. This ferry was in use until the first bridge was built across the Wisconsin River in 1857.

(Bridges & Viaducts • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Fitch Memorial

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Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown

After a fresco in the Capitol at Washington which depicts John Fitch at work on the model of his first steamboat to effect a successful voyage

Beneath this monument are interred the mortal remains of John Fitch, Soldier and Inventor, Born at South Windsor, Connecticut, January 21, 1743: Died at Bardstown, Kentucky, July 2, 1798.

At the outbreak of the American Revolution appointed a Lieutenant of a New Jersey company of the First Regiment, and later employed as Armorer for the troops by the Committee of Safety for the Province of New Jersey. In the fall of 1785 he presented drawings of his proposed steamboat to the American Philosophical Society and endeavored to finance experiments by selling maps of his explorations and by petitioning the assemblies of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania for assistance. On the Delaware River, August 22, 1787, John Fitch launched and successfully operated a steamboat before a distinguished gathering which included the framers of the American Constitution then in session during the years 1786 - 7. Laws granting Fitch exclusive rights to navigate by steam were enacted by several states. On July 26, 1788, he launched another steamboat using a stern paddle wheel and on April 16, 1790, his steamboat established and maintained scheduled sailings on the Delaware. Congress granted John Fitch a patent August 26, 1791 signed by President George Washington. King Louis of France likewise granted the American inventor a patent on November 20th of the same year. In 1796 Fitch constructed still another steamboat using a form of screw propeller. He reaped neither profit nor glory from his inventions, which contributed toward the revolution of navigation.

) Erected A.D. 1927 in compliance with the Act of Congress Approved February 12, 1926.

Reproduction of a model made by John Fitch in 1786, now in the National Museum at Washington

(Industry & Commerce • Science & Medicine • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Driver

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
Born, 1803, in Salem Mass., and sea-captain at 21, he retired in 1837. Coming here for his wife's health, he brought with him the flag given him in 1832, which he had nicknamed "Old Glory," the first known use of the term. This flag was flown from the Capitol when Federal troops took Nashville in 1862. Capt. Driver died in 1883.

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nelson County World War I, World War II, Korean War, & Vietnam War Memorial

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Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown

Dedicated to the Memory of Those who Offered their Lives in the Service of our Country during W.W. I - W.W. II - Korean and These During the Vietnam Conflict.

SP4 Raymond S. Ford Feb. 20, 1966 • CPL William Russell Taylor Aug. 28, 1966 • PVT David Price Mar. 18, 1968 • PFC Albert William Hawkins May 17, 1968 • S.S.G. James Raphael Norris Nov. 3, 1968 • SP4 David Collins June 19, 1969 • SGT Ronald E. Simpson June 19, 1969 • S.S.G. James T. Moore June 24, 1969 • SP4 Barry Neal Thompson June 25, 1969 • SGT Jim Wray July 2, 1969 • SGT Paul Johnson Aug. 4, 1970 • S.S.G. Nicholas Gerald Johnson Sr. Aug. 13, 1970 • SP4 Charles David St. Clair Jan. 16, 1971 • CPT James J. Crawford Feb. 3, 1972

(On the Reverse Side)
In Memory of Those who Served for God and Country

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nashville Plow Works

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
Site of a farm implement factory operated by Messrs. Sharp and Hamilton, previous to the War Between the States. With the outbreak of hostilities they reversed the Biblical injunction and produced swords of excellent quality for the Confederacy. With the coming of the Federal Army, the making of swords was discontinued.

(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Negley

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman’s supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” Hood moved north into Tennessee. Gen. John M. Schofield, detached from Sherman’s army, delayed Hood at Columbia and Spring Hill before falling back to Franklin. The bloodbath here on November 30 crippled the Confederates, but they followed Schofield to the outskirts of Nashville and Union Gen. George H. Thomas’s strong defenses. Hood’s campaign ended when Thomas crushed his army on December 15-16.

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After the Confederate defeat at Fort Donelson in February 1862, Nashville surrendered to Union forces. Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson insisted on the fortification of Nashville, a key transportation and supply hub. On August 6, Union Capt. James St. Clair Morton began implementing an elaborate design that made the capital the most heavily defended Unites States city outside Washington, D.C. More than 2,700 African American laborers constructed Fort Negley, the largest and most complex of Nashville’s five major forts. Soldiers occupied the fort in October while the laborers occupied the slope. The formidable stronghold protected Nashville’s southern approaches and deferred Confederate attacks. On November 5, the fort’s guns helped drive off Confederate forces under Gens. Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Hunt Morgan. The Nashville Banner announced the fort’s completion on November 16.

In spring 1863, Mary Overall, a young Confederate spy, capitalized on amiable relations between civilians and the military while attending a dance party here to gather information. Union Gen. Zebulon B. Tower proposed $20,000 in improvements in October 1864. On December 15-16, two newly installed Parrott guns provided artillery support during the Battle of Nashville, firing at targets more than three miles away. The 12th Indiana Light Artillery, along with soldiers from Illinois, Ohio, and Tennessee, as well as U.S. Colored Troops, occupied Fort Negley. It remained a federal post until 1867.

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In 1928, after recognition of Fort Negley as a national military park failed in Congress, the city took possession. The Works Progress Administration reconstructed the fort between 1936 and 1938, but it subsequently fell into disrepair. The city later reopened the stabilized and interpreted Fort Negley as a Metro Park, and the visitors center was completed in December 2007.

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(lower left) Fort Negley, under construction, 1862 Courtesy Tennessee State Library and Archives
(upper right) View of Nashville from Fort Negley, looking northeast March 1864 Courtesy Library of Congress

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

State Park Movement in Wisconsin

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Wisconsin, Polk County, near St. Croix Falls
In 1878 the Legislature set aside 50,000 acres of “Public Trust Fund Lands” as a “State Park.” These were scattered timbered lands located in Lincoln, Iron, Vilas and Oneida Counties. Because no effort was made to develop these lands, the Legislature of 1897 rescinded its previous actions and during subsequent years the lands were sold.

Many Wisconsin citizens at that time believed that areas of state-wide significance should be acquired for the use and inspiration of the people. Here at the Dalles of the St. Croix this public interest first took form. Harry D. Baker of St. Croix Falls and George H. Hazard of Taylors Falls headed groups from their respective states for acquiring land on both sides of the river for an Interstate Park. In 1895 their efforts caused the Wisconsin Legislature to authorize a “Commission for the Interstate Park at the Dalles of the St. Croix.” Under its direction in 1900, the first land was acquired.

Still dedicated to the original concepts for public use, State Parks have now been developed in all parts of the state. They include sites of historic, archeologic, and geologic values as well as thousands of acres of the finest natural scenery in Wisconsin.

(Charity & Public Work • Environment • Natural Features • Natural Resources) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Wabash River

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Ohio, Mercer County, near Fort Recovery

South Side
“Oubache’ was the French name for the Wabash – an Indian word meaning white. La Salle in 1669, was the first white man to explore this stream. Long it had been a link in a well- used route for red warriors and traders between the Great Lakes and the Ohio. Under French control the route connected settlements which stretched from the Saint Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico.

On the banks of the Wabash George Rogers Clark wrested the Old Northwest from the British when he captured Vincennes. Not far from the Wabash, William Henry Harrison defeated the Prophet in the Battle of Tippecanoe, marking the beginning of the War of 1812. With peace came the building of the Wabash and Erie Canal along the old route. One of the world’s longest canals, it brought prosperity to interior Indiana and Ohio. erected 1958 Fort Recovery Historical Society

North Side
Wabash River One half mile west of here, the Wabash River, famed in song and story, has it’s beginning. After 40 miles of meandering indecision, the willow- lined stream enters Indiana, flows completely across and almost the full length of the Hoosier State, then enters the Ohio River just below Evansville, it passes through 475 miles of one of the richest and most beautiful regions of our country.

At present, Fort Recovery, just north of here, tragedy and victory were the lot of two American armies on the banks of the Wabash. In the Indian Wars, Gen. Arthur St. Clair lost three fourths of his command in 1791 when Little Turtle and his warriors surprised his small and badly equipped army. Three years later, Little Turtle and 2,000 attacked Fort Recovery located on the same site. The Indians were repulsed with great loss by Gen. Anthony Wayne’s soldiers.

A partial reconstruction of the pioneer fort and a towering stone monument in Fort Recovery honor those men who fought and died in these two engagements on the banks of the Wabash.

(Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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