Mount Independence
Across Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, this site was originally called East Point or Rattlesnake Hill until the Declaration of Independence was...
Topeka Cemetery
The Topeka Cemetery, spanning 80 acres and founded in 1859, holds the distinction of being the oldest chartered burial ground in Kansas. Medal of...
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Square (2nd Debate)
Site of the second Lincoln-Douglas senatorial debate on August 27, 1858.
Colonization, African School & Happy Hill
After the Civil War, African Americans built a school and free community on farmland held by the Salem Moravian Congregation where enslaved people had...
Mile Post #42
The railroad found here follows the route of a vital U.S. Army rail line which African Americans constructed and guarded during the Civil War.
State v. Will
Here in 1834, at what was then known as Walnut Creek, a plantation owned by James Battle, acts of resistance and violence led to legal action...