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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Huntington County, Indiana
Adjacent to Huntington County, Indiana
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
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Roll of Honor
Citizens of
Dallas Township
Who Served Our Country in World War II
Homer Adams, Jr. Wilbur Akers Glen G. Anderson Robert G. Anderson Claire Austill Paul L. Bailey Wilbur Beaver Richard G. Belt Edwin J. . . . — — Map (db m76417) WM |
| | Lessel Long was a Huntington County pioneer, a Union soldier in the Civil War, and a prisoner of war at Andersonville prison (Camp Sumter) where 13,000 prisoners died. After the war he became a manufacturer and merchant in Andrews. In 1886 he . . . — — Map (db m76418) HM |
| | The canal boat "Indiana" docked here on the evening of July 3, 1835, opening the Wabash and Erie canal to traffic from Fort Wayne to Huntington. This was the first section of the canal opened in Indiana. John Burk, for whom the lock was named, was a . . . — — Map (db m7546) HM |
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(Side 1)
Canal Landing on Washington Street. The Huntington Landing started 120 feet west on Washington St and continued to the lock at Cherry St. The Wabash & Erie canal was 4 feet deep and 100 feet wide as this point. Other locks . . . — — Map (db m65223) HM |
| | In 1840 the Miami Indians agreed to move from the upper Wabash area to eastern Kansas. Francis La Fontaine was his tribes last principal chief. After leading his people west in 1846, he died at Lafayette, Indiana, en route to his home. The body was . . . — — Map (db m76449) HM |
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Ripley Wyckoff - - Co. A. 13. Indy. Cavalry - - Died Feb. 13, 1865
Enoch Morgan - - Co. G. 34. Regt. Ind. Vols. - - Died May 22, 1862
Theodore Ellis - - Co. E. 47. Regt. Ind. Vols. - - Died Aug. 22, 1863
Daniel . . . — — Map (db m10343) HM |
| | Drover Town, the first addition south of the Little River was platted Aug. 22, 1857 by Henry Drover. It included about 20 of his 160 acres of woodland. Family first names were given to the streets. Additional subdivisions followed. Huntington's . . . — — Map (db m55693) HM |
| | In a landmark decision on April 3, 1866, the United States Supreme Court overturned the conspiracy against the national government conviction of Huntington attorney Lambdin P. Milligan (1812-1899). This decision, rising out of the Civil War, set a . . . — — Map (db m71300) HM |
| | The junction of the Wabash and Little rivers, 100 yards south, was the western terminus of the Maumee-Wabash long portage and, in 1835, of the first section of the Wabash and Erie Canal. During the 18th century French and English traders passed this . . . — — Map (db m45118) HM |
| | James R. Slack was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on September 28,1818. He moved to Indiana in 1837. He was admitted to the bar on his 22nd birthday and moved to Huntington. Two years later he was elected county auditor, an office he held for 9 . . . — — Map (db m45099) HM |
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Jean Baptiste Richardville
(Pe-she-wah), 1761-1841
last great chief of the Miamis, made the forks of the Wabash his principal residence. His mother was the influential Tau-cum-wah sister of Chief Little Turtle. — — Map (db m7541) HM |
| | 1861-1865
Give honor to the more than
1800 men of this county who
wore the blue. Remember
208 of her sons who gave
their lives to preserve
the Union.
Erected by the Sons of Union
Veterans of the Civil War,
Champion Hill, Camp17
& . . . — — Map (db m128433) WM |
| | Dedicated to the heroes of Huntington County who bravely fought in the great wars.
To the men and women who gave their lives on land, sea, and in the sky that mankind might live in freedom.
Left Plaque: Dedicated in Honor of all those who . . . — — Map (db m45124) WM |
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Dedicated in Memory of
Our Fathers
Grand Army of the
Republic
By the Indiana Department
Daughters of Union Veterans
Of the Civil War
1861 - - 1865
19th Convention June 13, 1933 — — Map (db m76450) WM |
| | This site served Huntington as both Huntington High
School (1918 -1970) and Crestview Jr. High School (1970 - 1998) for a period of 82 years. Many distinguished citizens graduated from these schools and went on to serve their community and . . . — — Map (db m45138) HM |
| | In 1922, the Common Council of Huntington and members of the Huntington American Legion Post NO. 7, were moved by the passion of profound Americanism to forever perpetuate the memories of the war dead whose names are now and shall ever be part of . . . — — Map (db m129262) WM |
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Huntington's Ford and First Bridge
Pioneers forded Little River From Charles Street diagonally across just below the Island to the Court House. A dugout canoe, when hailed, carried pedestrians across for 50 cents. . . . — — Map (db m65224) HM |
| | In Memory of the Huntington County Boys who lost their lives in the World War.
Charles S. Beard Homer Glenn Fisher Elmer Leroy Fysoa Carl William Grossman Lewis Alden Haller Edward Emerson Hasty Edward D. Hoover Robert McNeil Mayne . . . — — Map (db m134405) HM |
| | On August 19,1988, this beautiful court house square was host to 12,500 residents and visitors gathered to witness the first rally of the successful presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush and Huntington's favorite son and 44th Vice . . . — — Map (db m46992) HM |
| | John R. Kissinger, who lived in Huntington in his latter years, became the first volunteer to subject himself to the bite of an infected mosquito (1900) in an experiment to identify the cause of "Yellow Jack" (Yellow Fever). This successful . . . — — Map (db m135771) HM |
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Otto U. King, D.D.S., F.S.C.D.
Dr King advocated for better dental education, preventative dentistry and free dental care for children. As member of Committee on Dentistry Council of National Defence, he mobilized dentists for WWI service to . . . — — Map (db m128421) HM |
| | The first permanent hotel of Huntington was built of stone on this site by General John Tipton in 1835. Standing on the bank of the Wabash and Erie Canal, it was a commercial, political and social center. From 1862 to 1872 it housed one of the first . . . — — Map (db m7547) HM |
| | This city, township and county were named for Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence and important political figure in the Revolutionary War era. Records indicate the name was given by Elias Murray, Huntington's nephew, when he . . . — — Map (db m71299) HM |
| | Huntington, the “Lime City.” so named for its many limestone quarries and kilns, the first kiln being built in this vicinity by Michael Houseman in 1843 or 1844. By 1885 there were 31 kilns in operation: eight were perpetual kilns, the . . . — — Map (db m7544) HM |
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(Side One)
The original high school was housed over a grocery store across the road and graduated its first class of two students in 1897.
Three buildings have served as a school on this site. The original one-room grade school was . . . — — Map (db m76439) HM |
| | This stone is from the first grist mill constructed by U.S. Govt.; circa 1833, for the use of the Miami Indians in this locality. It was built on Rock Creek 3/4 of a mile up stream from the Wabash River.
Presented to the Markle Area Historical . . . — — Map (db m76481) HM |
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In Dedication
These grist mill stones are presented
to the Markle Area Historical Society by
Susette Middleton Blanchard
in honor of
her late husband, Floyd Middleton.
The John J. Scotton Grist Mill was on the Rock Creek . . . — — Map (db m76480) HM |
| | This is one of three water turbines that furnished power for the Markle Thomas Mill 1851-1964. It developed about 25 HP. In 1981 it was removed from the old penstock. Compliments of State Bank of Markle. — — Map (db m76482) HM |
| | (Side 1) Pioneer Medical Doctors. George A. Osborn, 1823-1902, Margaret Osborn, 1827-1914, Parents of Chase S. Osborn. The mother launched upon active practice here 1860. The father practiced in Ohio before 1850.
(Side 2) . . . — — Map (db m61750) HM |
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(Front Side)
Born 1810 in what is now Huntington County. She was a granddaughter of Miami Chief Little Turtle. Her second husband was Antoine Revarre; her son Anthony Revarre, lived with her near Roanoke and acted as interpreter since . . . — — Map (db m61120) HM |
| | First lock west of summit level of Wabash and Erie Canal (connected Lake Erie with Ohio River in 1853). Known as Dickey Lock. Built as Lock 1, 1834-1835, of wood construction; renumbered Lock 4 as result of canal completion to Ohio line (1840). . . . — — Map (db m61119) HM |
| | Side A A Warren Public Library Board was organized in June 1916 after a public fundraising campaign to buy books and periodicals. In 1917, a grant of $10,000 from the Carnegie Corporation was confirmed to support construction of a free . . . — — Map (db m41467) HM |
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