To
Dade County's Soldiers
of
The Last War
(Charity & Public Work • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
World War I Memorial
Veterans Memorial
[Side A]
Dedicated in honor and memory of all veterans of Dade County, past and present, especially to those who gave their lives in the service of this great country.
[Side B]
To those who have fought and died.
We pray that your sacrifice will not have been in vain.
(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Dade County
[Side A]
Encompassing 504 sq. miles of the west slope of Missouri's Ozarks, Dade County was organized in 1841 and named for Maj. Francis L. Dade killed in Florida War with Seminoles in 1835. In territory ceded by Osage tribes in 1808, the county was early settled by Southern pioneers.
Greenfield, the county seat, laid out 1841, is on a plateau above nearby Turnback Creek. The town site, with rolling prairies on the west and wooded hills on the east, was given by Matthias and Mary Allison. Here was Ozark (Presby.) College, 1881-1903, founded as an academy, 1870. In Ebenezer Presbyterian Church (built in 1854, rebuilt 1884) was organized the Ozark Presbytery, including 25 counties in 1870.
A divided county in the Civil War, Dade suffered guerrilla raids, troop movement, and skirmishes. In Oct., 1863, Union soldiers stationed in Greenfield withdrew at the approach of Confederate General Joseph O. Shelby's troops who burned the courthouse. Rebuilt 1867, the courthouse was replaced in 1934. In 1881, the Kansas City & Memphis R.R. (Frisco) was built through the county.
(See other side)
[Side B]
(Continued from other side)
Dade County, dairy, livestock, grain, and fruit farming area, was briefly mined for coal, zinc, iron, and more extensively for lead. In 1874, discovery of a 50,000 lbs. lead boulder brought the opening of Corry Mine and founding of the one-time boom town of Corry. Other mines were worked before lead mining stopped in the early 1900's.
Dadeville, once known as Crisp Prairie and Mellville, was settled by Redden and John Crisp about 1818. Burned in the Civil War, it was rebuilt and renamed. Arcola was laid out, 1880; Crisp became a post office in 1890's; and South Greenfield, Everton, and Lockwood were laid out along the railroad in 1881. In the 1880's a number of Germans settled in and around Lockwood.
In Dye Park at Everton is the William Penn log cabin, first building to serve as a courthouse. Near there is Dilday Mill; near Greenfield is so-called Spanish Fort built by prehistoric Indians; and near Lockwood is the interdenominational Sinners Union Church. In adjacent Cedar County is site of Stockton Dam impounding the waters of the Sac River in Cedar and Dade Counties.
(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Veterans Memorial
A memorial to all deceased
military personnel interred
in Gum Springs Cemetery
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Bernadotte Lutheran Church
Organized 4 May 1866 at Magnus Peterson home, Pastor John Pehrson, by Swedish settlers, 21 charter families, 104 families by 1870. Commemorated on native stone, set in 1937.
First worship in homes, in school-house No. 26; first church built by Fredrick Webster, 1872, Pastor C. M. Ryden; present sanctuary 1897, Pastor N. O. Grunden.
The name Bernadotte is of French origin, King Charles XIV, ruling house in Sweden since 1810. Visit here by Count and Countess Folke Bernadotte 1933.
Centennial observed year-long 1966.
Placed in Gratitude to God and Memorial to Walter Wass, 3rd Generation
(Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
War Memorial
In honored memory of those from Cedar County who lost their lives in World War One, World War Two, the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts. These Heroes live beyond the tomb.
[Roll of Honored Dead]
And to all those who fought valiantly for
Liberty, Freedom and Justice.
Dedicated November 11, 1977
(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
First Post Road
The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.
(Colonial Era • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Our Confederate Dead
Gashed with honorable scars
low in glory's lap they lie,
though they fell, they fell like stars,
streaming splendour through the sky.
(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Manteo Weather Tower
The US Weather Bureau once used Coastal Warning Display towers such as this one to fly signal flags to warn mariners of wind shifts or approaching storms.
On November 10, 1904, the Weather Bureau established the Manteo Weather Station with Alpheus W. Drinkwater in charge. The Manteo Chamber of Commerce requested that the bureau be given permission to place a tower on the grounds of the Dare County Courthouse.
Since weather news was transmitted by telegraph, Drinkwater, in his role as telegraph operator, was a logical choice for the weatherman. He also is noted for sending news of the Wright Brothers’ flight tests to news agencies across the country.
Beyond the symbolic colors and shapes that foretold a rainy day or a flood tide on a northwesterly wind, weather flags, when flown in various combinations of shapes and colors, signaled that it was time to take in the laundry or to set the fishing nets, part of everyday life in Manteo. At night, two red and one white signal lights signaled storm warnings.
The tower was later moved near its present location on the waterfront and then to Drinkwater’s home on Ananias Dare (old Main) street. Upon inquiry by the Manteo Board of Commissioners, the John Booth family gave permission for the tower to be moved to town property, and provided the original signal lights.
In 2005, the Town of Manteo had the tower refurbished and moved to this site so that the weather signal flags could once again fly on the Manteo waterfront. The Manteo Weather Tower is believed to be one of only five towers still in use, and may be the only one with all of its original signal lights affixed.
(Communications • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Reid's Grove School
Still on its original site, the Reid's Grove School educated African American students in the Gatesville area. Completed on November 5, 1927 and closed in 1951, it was one of seven schools in Gates County (and one of over 800 in North Carolina) financed by Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, to educate blacks students during segregation. The building later housed the local North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service office for African Americans and was renamed the Mitchell Building in honor of the Howard Mitchell, the state's first black extension agent.
The building was entered in the National Register of Historic Places, August 30, 2011
(African Americans • Agriculture • Education) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Tau Eta Gamma (local)
Founded February 7, 1961
in Fairbanks Hall Kitchen
Then Phi Kappa Sigma (national)
Beta Kappa Chapter
1961-1983
(Education • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Fairbanks Hall
Erected in 1876, stood 15 feet from this site until 1978. The hall was given to Drury by Mr. Charles Fairbanks of Tunbridge Wells, England as a memorial to his son, Walter. Fairbanks served Drury proudly as a home for over two thousand Drury students and several faculty members for 102 years.
(Education • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Indian Mounds
[Side A]
These mounds mark the site of pre-historic Indian homes. They are believed to represent the remains of thatch-roofed circular adobe huts, similar to those now built by the Mandan Indians. Thousands of similar mounds are widely scattered in groups throughout the Ozarks, but are being rapidly destroyed by agricultural agencies. Their builders antedated the Osages. Meager evidence indicates a non-warlike and agricultural race, probably effaced either by pestilence or by warlike enemy tribes.
[Side B]
100 feet east was the Old St. Louis Road, which once ran diagonally through Drury College campus from southwest to northeast. Remains of the earthworks thrown up to fortify this road in the early days of the Civil War can still be obscurely seen on the southwest corner of the campus.
(Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
[Plaque] Presented to the Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery
(Arts, Letters, Music • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Birthplace of Moses Fleetwood Walker
October 7, 1857
Mount Pleasant, Ohio
Birthplace of
Moses Fleetwood Walker
(1857-1924)
Civil Rights Pioneer
First African American Major League Baseball Player
(career 1883-1889)
(African Americans • Civil Rights • Sports) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Battle of Springfield
Across from this site stood Fort No. 5, the second largest of five forts built around Springfield. By January 8, 1863, the fort was only partially finished. It served only as a rallying point during the battle. From this point and along St. Louis Street, Union soldiers from the 3rd and 14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry engaged in several skirmishes with Maj. Ben Elliott's battalion of scouts. In one brief encounter, two companies of the 14th MSM, commanded by Lt. Col. Pound and Capt. Milton Burch, clashed with Lt. William H. Gregg and Quantrill's Confederate company, resulting in a number of casualties to the Union forces. From this position on the morning of January 9, the weary Union defenders watched as the Confederates disengaged their battle lines and withdrew east along St. Louis St., the road to St. Louis. The battle was over. Both sides suffered casualties in excess of 12%.
(Forts, Castles • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Elizabeth House Mansion
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Wintersville
While en route to Wintersville on July 25, 1863, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his Confederate raiders stopped at the farm of Mrs. John Hanna for a short nap and meal.
Working their way toward Wintersville through the area south of here, the Confederates ran into the scouts of the Jefferson County militia. Several volleys were exchanged, leaving a militiaman dead and a local woman wounded. The Confederates quickly passed through Wintersville on the way to Richmond. Morgan's men advised inhabitants to take cover from the impending fight.
Here, at the Two Ridges Church, regular Union forces under Major William B. Way caught up with Morgan's rear units. Several of Way's troopers were wounded in the skirmish. As the militia commanded by Colonel James Collier came up the hill from the east toward the church, their view was obstructed by dust raised by Morgan's troops.
At the same time, the Union forces under General Shackelford were advancing from the south. The militia filled their artillery piece with scrap iron and fired it, but they mistakenly raked the Union line. The confusion was soon straightened out, but it gave Morgan and his men a lead to the north.
(Churches, Etc. • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Bernadotte Lutheran Church Monument
This Monument Erected by the Bernadotte Lutheran Church in memory of pioneers who settled here by and before 1870, and who organized and became members of same. Church was organized May 4, 1866.
——— The first resident pastor Rev. C. M. Ryden arrived in 1872. ——— Charter Members Families of : Mrs. Katrina Anderson • Johannes Beck (single) • Carl Bondeson • Sven Peter Eld • Johan Engelbrektson • Johannes Fredrikson • Anders Gustafson • Gustaf Hall • Lars Hank • Johannes Hed • Jonas Johnson • Jonas Johanson • Lars Johnson (single) • Mrs Eva Nelson • Jonas Olson • Magnus Peterson • Johannes Schulz • Gustaf Smedberg • Johannes Smedberg • A. P. Swenson • Anders Wass
Joined Later Anders Abrahamson • N. P. Abrahamson • Adolf Anderson • Andrew Anderson • C. W. Anderson • Gabriel Anderson • Lars Anderson • Swen Anderson • Johannes Apelgren • Fredrick Bengtson • Swen Bengtson • John Bolin • Peter Brown • Andrew Chellstrom • Gustaf Carlson • Per Carlson • Swen Eckberg • Johan Ekstrom • Anders Erickson • Johannes Erickson • Per Erickson • Olof Erson • C. J. Essling • Peter Flygare • Anders Friskupp • P. M. Fritiof • Anders Gundberg • Johannes Gundberg • C. J. Gustafson • Anders Holberg • Per Holmquist • Johannes Jacobson • Josef Jacobson • Jons Jern • Johannes Johanson • A. P. Johnson • Bengt Johnson • C. H. Johnson • Gabrial Johnson • Nels Johnson • Pete Johnson • S. J. Johnson • Olof Johnson • Johan Jonson (single) • Johannes Jonson • Swen Kulander • Swen Kyrklund • Anders Langer • C. J. Larson • Gustaf Larson • Jonas Larson • Peter Larson • August Liljegren • Jan Lindberg • Anders Lundgren • Anders Malmberg • John Malmberg • Elias Mattson • J. P. Moller • Johannes Morshare • Carl Nelson • C. C. Nelson (single) • Jonas Nilson • Erik Olson • Per Olofson • A. M. Olson • Anders Olson • Erik Ohlson • Fredrick Olson • Ola Olson • Olof Olson • Per Olson • HMdb.org • Johannes Ostberg • Anders Pehrson • Andreas Person • Simon Person • Lars Rod • Johannes Revalj • Lars Ruda • Swen Ryden • August Sandquist • C. J. Schoberg (single) • Johannes Sjoberg • Gustav Sjostrom • Carl Soderquist • Per Sten • Johan Stenberg • Johannes Stenberg • Johan Stenstrom • Andrew Swenson • C. A. Swenson • Carl August Swenson • Frederick Swenson • Jonas Swenson • Lars Swenson • Mons Swenson • Peter Tern • Anders Thor (single) • Fredrick Torgeson • Fredrick Webster • Nils Wilander • Anders Wilson • John Youngblom • Israel Zakariason
(Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Harrisville
Confederate Brigadier John Hunt Morgan and about 500 remaining raiders had narrowly escaped pursuing Union forces under Brigadier General James M. Shackelford and had survived their artillery barrage near Georgetown.
The Union troops and horses were played out. Morgan's Raiders had been able to draft fresh animals as they rode across eastern Ohio, but the following Union troops had been left the Confederates' exhausted mounts. Althought he had Morgan in his sights, Shackelford had to rest his forces for several hours.
Morgan and his men entered Harrisville around 6:45 am on July 25, 1863. Morgan needed to stay ahead of Shackelford's forces and keep them guessing, so he could not delay.
The citizens of this typical Ohio small town had prepared meals for the approaching Union troops. Morgan's men rounded up nine horses from the townspeople and helped themselves to the food intended for their pursuers. After a quick meal, the Confederates headed east out of Harrisville.
(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.