In honor of
Major Charles L. Kelly, MSC, U.S. Army
1925 - 1964
Dust-Off Pilot Extraordinary
Killed in action by small arms fire
while attempting to approach a hot LZ
near Vinh Long, Viet Nam on 1 July 1964
after . . . — — Map (db m96555) WM
"It is for us the living, rather, to
be dedicated here...
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, . . . — — Map (db m75613) WM
In honor of
1Lt Sharon A. Lane, ANC, U.S. Army
1943 - 1969
FAMC Staff Nurse, 1968 - 1969
Killed by enemy mortar round while
serving with honor
312th Evac Hospital, Chu Lai, Viet Nam
Only ANC Officer to die as a result . . . — — Map (db m96560) WM
1917 1918
In Memory
of the
Officers Nurses
and Enlisted Men
of the
Medical Department
United States Army
Who Lost Their Lives
During the
World War
This Tablet is Erected
by their Coworkers of
the Medical Department . . . — — Map (db m96553) WM
The Rocky Mountains proved a formidable barrier to early aviation, leaving Colorado in a familiar position: bypassed. As with the railroads fifty years earlier, transcontinental air traffic went through Wyoming; Colorado had to make do with a . . . — — Map (db m70525) HM
Historic City Hall was initially built as the first permanent Adams County Courthouse. The courthouse was designed in 1904 by architect John James Huddart, who also designed the Brighton Armory. In 1906, builder A.B. McDonald completed the . . . — — Map (db m203311) HM
In honor of
1Lt John Harold Buckley (1896-1918)
Longmont, Colorado
Lost his life in World War I,
on a mission behind German lines.
Buckley Field 1942-1947
Denver Naval Air Station
1947-1959
Buckley Air National Guard Base . . . — — Map (db m75593) HM WM
Early Years of Statehood
In the early years of statehood, silver strikes at Leadville and Aspen brought settlers and money into Colorado. Rail lines, smelters, and refineries were built, and large coalfields were opened up.
The High . . . — — Map (db m119387) HM
Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
Located just eleven miles northeast of downtown Denver, the Refuge is the largest contiguous open space in the Denver metropolitan area. A major environmental restoration program will be . . . — — Map (db m119390) HM
This Headquarters area is dedicated in honor of all the Rocky Mountain Arsenal employees who accomplished the production, demilitarization, and environmental restoration at the Arsenal from 1942 until 2012 — — Map (db m162066) HM WM
As the focus changed to environmental cleanup, Building 111 became the headquarters of this new mission-and of a public-private partnership among the U.S. Army, Shell Oil Co. and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Years of
Partnership Called . . . — — Map (db m163885) HM
Arsenal Beginnings
Building 111, also known as the “White House, "was located north of the flagpole area. The building was the U.S. Army's headquarters
from the time the Arsenal was established in 1942 until the building was . . . — — Map (db m163883) HM
In 1942, women and men of the U.S. Army built this Arsenal that helped achieve victory in WWII and the Cold War. With thanks to our partners, the U.S. Army, Shell Oil Company and their contractors, we dedicate this flagpole to the employees of . . . — — Map (db m119380) HM
Above this sign, a mile away, 230 buildings once stood. The U.S. Army constructed South Plants in 1942 to produce chemical weapons for World War II — — Map (db m156147) HM
The Fourteeners
There are 58 peaks in the Colorado Rocky Mountains that are above 14,000 feet in height. While 54 are generally acknowledged to be "14ers", most people who want to climb them want to climb all 58. They are contained in six . . . — — Map (db m119395) HM
Commerce City
Commerce City was incorporated as Commerce Town in 1952 and became Commerce City in 1970. In 2004 the Prairie Gateway, a 917-acre parcel of land located along the western edge of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife . . . — — Map (db m119381) HM
Dedicated Veterans Day 2003 Artist: Hai Ying Wu
Veterans and the American Flag symbolize our nation's strength and unity, and continue to be a source of pride and inspiration for millions of Americans.
This Memorial serves to honor and . . . — — Map (db m202817) WM
Ma Barker's infamous son, Lloyd "Red" Barker traded in a life of crime for a life in Westminster in the 1940s. Lloyd grew up as part of the Barker Gang, described by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as "the toughest gang of hoodlums the FBI has ever . . . — — Map (db m69547) HM
The value of one's life can be measured by how he or she has added value to the lives of others. In 2003 this statue was dedicated to those who gave freely of their time to serve Westminster Citizens through the fire service and community activities. — — Map (db m4648) HM
An ambitious railroad project to a high Seven Devils copper mine (elevation 6800 ft.) created a lot of excitement here in 1898-1899.
This would have been Idaho's highest mountain railroad if funding had been available to complete it. Construction . . . — — Map (db m23226) HM
John Welch -- always known as Packer John -- hauled supplies from Lewiston to Idaho City during a major Boise Basin gold rush of 1863-1864.
He built a cabin (1/4 mile north of here) that immediately became an historic Idaho landmark. Territorial . . . — — Map (db m37957) HM
For more than half a century, after 1910, an apple orchard of nearly 1400 acres, thought to be the largest in the United States under one management, covered this area.
Investors, mostly from the eastern U.S., bought 10-acre shares to finance the . . . — — Map (db m23222) HM
In 1946 Jack Morgan and his brother Ed purchased the logging division at New Meadows, Idaho, from Boise Payette Lumber Company.
The new company was called
J. I. Morgan, Inc.
In the years that followed, the company was . . . — — Map (db m110379) HM
Oct. 6, Day 33 of the forced march from their Indiana homeland, 850 Potawatomi Indians camped nearby after traveling 18 miles that day. As the barren land only allowed one choice for encampment, it was named "Hobson's Choice". Water on route was . . . — — Map (db m181376) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. . . . — — Map (db m181389) HM
Singleton had succumbed "Hook and Line" to the Democrats, stated Lincoln in 1854. He and Quincyan James W. Singleton had been fellow Whigs and disciples of Henry Clay. They had campaigned together in 1848 during Whig Zachary Taylor's . . . — — Map (db m150599) HM
Woodland Cemetery—The necropolis that in life (Cornelius Volk) did so much to beaut(ify) and make attractive" (Quincy Daily-Herald, 1898). Among significant historical Woodland memorials are the gravestones of Orville and . . . — — Map (db m150258) HM
Warmer climate ends the Ice Age and encourages the growth of different plants. Deciduous trees replace open spruce woodlands. Many Ice Age animals become extinct, and woodland animals such as white-tailed deer are more common. About 7,000 years ago . . . — — Map (db m150277) HM
Father Tolton, the first negro priest in the United States, was born of slave parents in Brush Creek, Missouri, in 1854. Educated at Quincy schools, he returned to this city after his ordination in Rome, Italy, in 1886. He celebrated his first . . . — — Map (db m58799) HM
Lincoln: ". . . I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. And I have no inclination to do so."
Douglas: ". . . Mr. . . . — — Map (db m156831) HM
Style: Italianate
Date: 1856-1857
Builder: George Baughman
Nominated by the Quincy Preservation Commission.
Approved by the Quincy City County, December 27, 1989.
Verne W. Hagstrom, Mayor — — Map (db m156867) HM
On an August night in 1842, Dr. Richard Eells, an active Quincy Abolitionist in the 1830-40's, was transporting a runaway slave named Charley to a safer location when his carriage was stopped near this spot by a posse searching for Charley. . . . — — Map (db m156857) HM
First United Presbyterian Church, 1879
8th & Broadway
Gothic Revival Style
Robert Bunce, Architect
Churches usually have an elaborate entrance or portico
to mark the transition into a religious dwelling.
The three portals symbolize the . . . — — Map (db m156776) HM
"I regard (Richardson) as one of the truest men that ever lived; he 'sticks to judge Douglas through thick and thin" (A. Lincoln, 1860). Douglas composed the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. William A. Richardson, another Quincyan and Douglas' . . . — — Map (db m58760) HM
Sixteen days of rain had laid a coat of mud over the macadam streets that wrapped the city's square. Called the "Model City" because of its beautiful setting on the bluffs, Quincy in 1858 occupied about five square miles within . . . — — Map (db m58759) HM
Distinguished naturalist and educator, friend of birds and young people, a lifelong resident of Quincy, "T. E." was loved by all those who shared his knowledge, enthusiasm and concern for wildlife.
He founded the "Bluebird Trails" to erect and . . . — — Map (db m156860) HM
Lincoln: We oppose the Dred Scott Decision, . . . because we think that it lays the foundation not merely of enlarging and spreading that evil [slavery] but that it lays the foundation of spreading that evil into the states themselves . . . . . . — — Map (db m156830) HM
Style: Prairie
Date: 1911-1912
Architect: Ernest M. Wood
Nominated by the Quincy Preservation Commission.
Approved by the Quincy City Council, December 27, 1989
Verne W. Hagstrom, Mayor — — Map (db m156841) HM
"Here, too, the father of the town, with other men of large renown, are gathered by that reaper stern, who cuts down each and all in turn" (Henry Asbury, Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois". Referring to the leaders from an earlier . . . — — Map (db m150257) HM
This Greek Revival style mansion was built in 1835 by John Wood, Quincy's first settler, who erected a log cabin in 1822 at Front and Delaware Streets. The Society was formed in 1896, acquired the mansion in 1907, and maintains museum displays, loan . . . — — Map (db m187255) HM
Inscription - North Side of Monument
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow'd mold,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than . . . — — Map (db m150044) HM
In honor of those who gave the Ultimate Sacrifice in service to the United States of America and the families they left behind. The sacrifice will not be forgotten. — — Map (db m181390) WM
From October 8-10, 1838, more than 800 Potawatomi Indians were encamped here in Quincy, Illinois and directly across the Mississippi River in Missouri. They were being forced to march from Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana to Eastern Kansas . . . — — Map (db m150021) HM
In 1888, the Quincy Boulevard & Park Association was created to determine the location of parks and to develop beautiful boulevards. As early as 1894, E.J. Parker, the Association's president, began discussions with the city to acquire land where . . . — — Map (db m150072) HM
From 1818 through 1851 groups of American Indians were forcibly removed from states on the east side of the Mississippi River to territories on the west side. One of these removals was the Potawatomi Trail of Death, conducted by William Polke, . . . — — Map (db m181375) HM
In 1846, a majestic white oak stood on a Mississippi River Bluff on property owned by Quincy founder John Wood. It towered over the trees that surrounded it. When Wood began to plat Woodland, he chose this oak as the point around which the . . . — — Map (db m150048) HM
First United Presbyterian Church, 1879
8th & Broadway
Gothic Revival Style
Robert Bunce, Architect
The majority of churches built in Quincy in the 19th century revived a European Gothic style with pointed arches over the entrance and . . . — — Map (db m150586) HM
"The points you propose to press upon Douglas, he will be very hard to get up to" ):Lincoln letter to Henry Asbury, 1858). Originally a Kentucky Whig, Henry Asbury was one of the founders of the Republican Party in Illinois along with . . . — — Map (db m58753) HM
"You are one of my most valued friends" (Lincoln letter to Abraham Jonas, 1860). Their friendship began in 1843 in Springfield when Lincoln and Jonas served together in the Illinois House of Representatives. Jonas became an early and . . . — — Map (db m58764) HM
Lincoln Was Exhausted
after the debate with Douglas.
"I tell you, I'm mighty nigh petered out; I reckon I'll have to quit and give up the race."
That was Lincoln's comment on October 13, 1858; he was in a "state of . . . — — Map (db m156849) HM
On October 13 1858, two candidates for U.S. Senate met in this public square for a sixth debate. Quincy, in the west-central portion of the state, was a true battleground area where both candidates saw reasonable prospects of victory. . . . — — Map (db m58781) HM
On November 1, 1854 an incensed Lincoln attacked the immorality of slavery in a speech at Kendall Hall. Lincoln was awakened from a five-bear political slumber by Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act, attacking it in a series of speeches in . . . — — Map (db m149831) HM
Quincy's Eliza Caldwell Browning and Abraham Lincoln first met in 1836. She was a new bride, and he had just received his law license. When Eliza discovered Lincoln's "great merits," the two established an easy rapport. Their . . . — — Map (db m58739) HM
Quincy lawyer and newspaper editor Andrew Johnston became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature when Lincoln served as representative and Johnson as assistant clerk. Like Lincoln, a Whig, Johnston was a law partner . . . — — Map (db m58795) HM
"Archie Williams was one of the strongest-minded and clearest-minded men in Illinois" (A. Lincoln). Lincoln and his friend Archibald Williams had much in common. Both were born in Kentucky and moved to Illinois. Williams coming to Quincy . . . — — Map (db m58790) HM
With a population of nearly 13,000 in 1858, Quincy was the Adams County seat and the third largest city in Illinois. Quincy boasted a strong, growing economy based on its transportation, milling, pork packing, and light industry. In 1853 . . . — — Map (db m58755) HM
Best remembered for his spectacular fountains, Lorado Taft was the creator of some of our nation's outstanding monuments. Some of his most significant include Blackhawk (Oregon, IL, 1911), The Columbus Memorial (Washington, D.C., . . . — — Map (db m58782) HM
This property was purchased by the city of Quincy in 1837 for use as a cemetery known as Madison Square. Among those who were buried here are the Mormons who died in 1838-1839 while in Quincy seeking asylum from persecution in Missouri. In 1857 . . . — — Map (db m156862) HM
In AD 1673, Pere Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, Louis Jolliet, a mapmaker, and a small party of Frenchmen explore the Mississippi River by canoe. In eastern Missouri they find a village of the Peoria, one of the tribes that speaks the . . . — — Map (db m150074) HM
Farming changes almost every part of life and leads to the development of Mississippian culture. Mississippian farmers grow corn, squash, beans, and some native plants. They also hunt, gather, and fish, producing enough food to feed towns and . . . — — Map (db m150286) HM
Lincoln: ". . . reduced to its lowest element, slavery is no other than that between the man that thinks slavery is wrong and those who do not think it wrong. . . . We think it is a moral, a social, and a political wrong. . . . [Douglas] has, . . . — — Map (db m156822) HM
On this site stood the U.S. Naval Reserve Training Center of Quincy. Built in the late 1940's, it had 3 Quonset huts, office building, and surface division 9-29(m) with up to 120 personnel. Many were veterans of W.W. II, Korea and Vietnam. Others . . . — — Map (db m150027) HM
On this exact spot, the corner stone placed in 1910 for the construction of one of the finest; best commercial buildings in this entire area.
Through the years, many very successful businesses were housed here. In later years several very . . . — — Map (db m150028) HM
On this corner, in 1859, the Franciscan Fathers founded St. Francis Solanus College. In September of 1860, the College was relocated on Allstynes Prairie (the present site) at 19th and College Avenue. The charter was granted by the State of Illinois . . . — — Map (db m150020) HM
Founded in 1839 to serve the Irish Catholics of Quincy. Here runaway slave Augustine Tolton attended school, was confirmed and worked until he entered the seminary and became the first negro priest in the United States. — — Map (db m150019) HM
People arrive in North America from Asia more than 14,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age. The formation of glaciers lowers sea level and exposes a wide land bridge connecting Asia and North America where the Bering Sea is today.
In . . . — — Map (db m150287) HM
Douglas: "Let each state mind its own business, and let its neighbors alone - then there will be no trouble on this question. . . . If we will stand by that great principle, then Mr. Lincoln will find that this Republic can exist forever . . . — — Map (db m156824) HM
Abraham Lincoln and John Wood shared similar political views, Both were members of the Whig Party and were strongly allied against slavery. Lincoln and Wood worked to establish the Republican Party, and each campaigned for the other's . . . — — Map (db m58737) HM
Quincy was in a festive mood for the all-day event with bands, banners, and thousands of people in attendance. Historian E.B. Long said, "It was a carnival time in Illinois. Mobs of thousands journeyed by wagon, horseback, boat and . . . — — Map (db m150023) HM
On October 7, 1838 nearly 850 Potawatomi Indians camped near here on Mill Creek on the forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. The diary records that they traveled 12 miles that day A child died. — — Map (db m181377) HM
In 1804, the Sac and Fox cede their land between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to the United States. Nine years later, General Howard and 1,400 mounted rangers burn a Sac village near the future site of Quincy. Legend has it that the . . . — — Map (db m150073) HM
Civil War Quincy
Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861. Three days later, President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to suppress the rebellion. Men in Quincy, Illinois, rushed to volunteer for . . . — — Map (db m181384) HM
12th & Maine
Romanesque Revival Style
Harvey Chatten, Arthitect
———————————
Pilasters
Students entered the school through
a monumental arched entrance facing
on Maine . . . — — Map (db m156773) HM
Timbered hills, tall
prairie grasses, ravines, creeks,
and springs were prominent features of Quincy in Lincoln's
time. Originally called "Bluffs," the town grew along the Mississippi's east bank and on the heights . . . — — Map (db m156922) HM
Began in 1829 with Michael Mast, from Forchheim, Baden. In the early 1830s many immigrants from that area settled here, followed closely by the Hessians. In the 1840s and '50s our ancestors were pouring in mainly from Westphalia and Hanover. Soon . . . — — Map (db m181391) HM
"His name fills the nation; and is not unknown, even in foreign lands" (A. Lincoln, 1856). Stephen A. Douglas, a Jacksonian Democrat, arrived in Quincy in 1841, at twenty-seven the youngest Supreme Court Judge in Illinois history. In . . . — — Map (db m150024) HM
Lincoln: ". . . there is no reason in the world why the Negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence . . . . I hold that . . . in the right to eat the bread . . . which his own hand earns he is . . . — — Map (db m156821) HM
"Who shall say, I am the superior, and you are the inferior?" asked Lincoln in July 1858. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates focused on slavery. During the October 13th Quincy debate Lincoln affirmed: "...in the right to eat the bread . . . — — Map (db m58798) HM
First United Presbyterian Church, 1879
8th & Broadway
Gothic Revival Style
Robert Bunce, Architect
Construction began in May, 1875, but stalled when a violent storm collapsed the walls of the new church. Calamity struck again when fire . . . — — Map (db m150591) HM
Lincoln: "We also oppose [slavery] as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself. We insist upon a policy that shall restrict it to its present limits. We do not suppose on doing this that we infringe upon the Constitution. . . . . . — — Map (db m156828) HM
Type: Early Gothic Revival
Date: 1853
Architect: Charles Howland
Nominated by the Quincy Preservation Commission.
Approved by the Quincy City Council, March 1, 1999.
Charles W. Scholz, Mayor — — Map (db m156836) HM
Lincoln traveled to Quincy by stagecoach in 1854 after crossing the Illinois River at Naples. Lincoln's first documented visit was to support the Congressional candidacy of Archibald Williams and to attack the Kansas- Nebraska Act and . . . — — Map (db m57881) HM
Statesman and politician Stephen A. Douglas began his distinguished national career in Quincy. A resident of the city from 1841-1847, he served as Associate Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1841-1843, then in the U.S. House until he was . . . — — Map (db m149962) HM
This smokehouse was originally built on the Luke and Lucinda Kimmons homestead located approximately two miles south of "Five Points" in Liberty Township. In 1972 it was donated to the Quincy Park District and rebuilt on the Adams Landing log cabin . . . — — Map (db m187254) HM
On this site stood the house of Orville Hickman Browning (1806-1881)
Illinois State Senator and Representative
Senator, Secretary of the Interior, and Attorney General of the United States
Friend and adviser of Presidents Abraham . . . — — Map (db m150022) HM
In the early 1890's Quincy saw a need for a park on the South side. This property was then owned by Judge B.F. Berrian jointly with his brothers. On April 16, 1895 at a meeting of the City Council park committee a recommendation was made and . . . — — Map (db m150206) HM
In 1839, the Latter-Day Saints crossed the Mississippi River at this approximate site and were befriended by the citizens of Quincy.
(Reverse:)
"The citizens of Quincy (will) be held in everlasting remembrance for their unparalleled . . . — — Map (db m150451) HM
Here on December 4, 1830 the first organized congregation in Quincy was established by the Reverend Asa Turner, one of seven Yale theological students, known as the "Yale Band," who pledge to save the "west" for Christ by founding churches and . . . — — Map (db m150025) HM
The Lord's Cabin is dedicated to the glory of God, the use for all God's people and in memory of Sir Knight Norbert H. (Bert) Wensing. (1928-1977)
It was dedicated November 5, 1977, by the most Reverend Joseph A. McNicholas, D.D., Bishop of . . . — — Map (db m187250) HM
Inscription - South Side of Monument
"Consecrated A.D. 1867 by Sisters of the Good Samaritan in duty, affection, and reverence to the memory of the faithful soldiers of Adams county, who gave their lives that the nation might live." . . . — — Map (db m150045) HM
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