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[Potawatomi] Trail of Death
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville The removal of the Potawatomi Indians from northern Indiana to Kansas took place Sept. - Nov. 1838. Nearly 900 Indians were rounded up by soldiers and marched at...
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St. Philippine Duchesne Memorial and Historical Park
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville This is the Memorial and Historical Park dedicated to St. Philippine Duchesne and the Big Sugar/St. Mary Indian Mission, established 1838 to 1848. The official...
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"Quah-Kah-Ka-Num-Ad"
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville This memorial is dedicated to: "Quah-Kah-Ka-Num-Ad" Potawatomie for "Woman Who Prays Always". Rose Philippine Duchesnewas a nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart...
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Camp Nelson Refugee Camp / Conditions at Refugee Camp
Kentucky, Jessamine County, Nicholasville(obverse) Camp Nelson Refugee Camp Established in 1863 to house families of African American soldiers, Camp Nelson became the chief center issuing emancipation...
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Father Petit and the Trail of Death
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville Father Benjamin Marie Petit, a missionary to the Potawatomi in northern Indiana, accompanied them on the forced removal in 1838. He ministered to their needs, both...
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Priests House
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville Some of the Jesuit priests who lived and served here Fr. Christian Hoecken • Fr. Francis Renaud • Fr. Felix Vanquickenborne • Fr. Peter John Verhaegen • Fr. Peter...
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Log Convent
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville On this site stood a five room log convent completed mid March 1842 (Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes...
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Log Cabin School
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville On this site a log cabin with stone foundation was built for St. Philippine Duchesne and two other nuns. The work was done by the Pottawatomie Indians under the...
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Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Onkweonweke Katsitsiio Teotsitsianekaron
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville Kateri was an Indian princess. Her father Kenneronkwa was a chief of the Mohawk-Iroquois (Turtle Clan). Her mother was Kahenta of the Algonquin tribe. This young...
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Veterans Memorial
Minnesota, Redwood County, Morgan To Honor and Remember All Veterans who Served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America Army • Navy Air Force • Marines Coast Guard Erected and Presented to...
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9th Kentucky Infantry
Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga9th Kentucky Infantry. Gen. S. Beatty's Brigade. Col. George H. Cram. Nov. 25, 1863. 5 Killed; 30 Wounded. (War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4...
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Ireland's - Third Brigade
Georgia, Catoosa County, RinggoldText on Front Side of Marker: 60th New York Infantry 102nd New York Infantry 137th New York Infantry 149th New York Infantry Ireland's - Third Brigade Geary's - Second...
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Old Plauche Place / Ducournau Plantation
Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, near Natchez(side 1) This c. 1836 center hill Creole cottage is of poteaux sur sole, (hand-hewn pegged cypress sills on brick piers)and bousillage construction on the...
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Camp Nelson National Cemetery
Kentucky, Jessamine County, Nicholasville(obverse) One of 40 burial grounds listed by Congress in 1866 to become National Cemetery sites. Although no battles were fought in immediate area, a large camp...
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Father Petit and the Potawatomi 'Trail of Death'
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville Rev. Benjamin Marie Petit, of the City of Rennes, France, arrived as the Catholic missionary to the Potawatomi Indians in northern Indiana in November 1837. By...
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Potawatomi "Trail of Death" march & death of Fr. Petit
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville [Map] Designates 1838 'Trail of Death' route from Indiana to present day Osawatomie, Kans. In September 1838 over 850 Potawatomi Indian people were rounded up and...
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Potawatomi Burial Ground
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville This place is in memory of more than 600 Catholic Potawatomi Indians buried in this field and down by the river far from their ancestral home of the Great Lakes...
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Daily Offering
Kansas, Linn County, near Centerville This granite depiction of St. Philippine and two American Indians is an enlarged copy of a 3" x 5" sketch done by an unknown nun of St. Charles, Mo. Lawrence...
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Wawona Hotel
California, Mariposa County, WawonaAfter several pioneer lodging structures were destroyed by fire, Henry Washburn and John Bruce had this building, opened in April, 1879, erected. Bruce died in it in...
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Joseph LaFramboise -
Minnesota, Nicollet County, near Fairfax 1826 Licensed U.S. fur buyer with H. H. Sibley. 1834 Owned Little Rock Trading Post on the Minnesota River. 1837 Interpreter for Indian Treaty at Fort...
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