On East Bennington Street 0.3 miles west of East Railroad Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
From Farmland to the City of Toluca
In 1887, farmers in Bennington Township of Marshall County were having great difficulty marketing their grain and livestock by horse-drawn wagons to Streator, Peoria or Bloomington. Family diaries even . . . — — Map (db m252916) HM
On Salem Avenue (Mississippi Route 4) east of North Bethlehem Street, on the left when traveling east. Reported missing.
Near the Salem Street bridge over the Mississippi Central Railroad Van Dorn's cavalry column divided into three attacking parties. The first moved to subdue the Union cavalry at the Marshall County Fairgrounds. The second attacked the infantry . . . — — Map (db m200172) HM
On West Church Street at North 1st Avenue, on the left when traveling west on West Church Street.
After the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, when the Civil War began, a large majority of Marshall County residents supported the Confederacy. They gathered on the Courthouse Square for war news and information about how and where to enlist. At . . . — — Map (db m151086) HM
On Shelbyville Highway (Tennessee Route 64) 0.2 miles west of David Road, on the right when traveling west.
The Farmington engagement took place along this road during Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler's October 1-6, 1864, raid through the Sequatchie Valley to cut supply lines to Federal-occupied Chattanooga. Wheeler and his 4,000 cavalrymen captured or . . . — — Map (db m151054) HM
On Salem Avenue just east of West Street, on the right when traveling east.
This Gothic villa, probably designed by
the firm of the distinguished architect
Samuel Sloan, was built in 1858 for a
reported $40,000 by wealthy planter William
Henry Coxe on a fifteen-acre tract purchased
in 1857. The massive cast iron gates . . . — — Map (db m200084) HM
On William Street north of West Broadway Street, on the right when traveling south.
Prisoners at Alton Military Prison
The Alton Military Prison was inhabited by four different classes of prisoner, Confederates, civilians, Federal soldiers and a group called guerillas or bushwhackers.
Confederate prisoners of war made up . . . — — Map (db m211487) HM
On E. Jefferson Street at Cleveland Street, on the right when traveling east on E. Jefferson Street.
(Side One)
Historic Crossroads of America
Marshall County has been called the Crossroads of America. The Lincoln Highway (the Lincoln’s second alignment constructed in the mid-1920s), the Michigan Road (Indiana’s first state . . . — — Map (db m75489) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
