First lead mine in the Mississippi Valley
opened at Mine La Motte about the year 1700
St. Michael French Village started about 1799
Madison County approved December 14, 1818
Fredericktown laid out 1819
Discovery of copper at Copper . . . — — Map (db m119696) HM
The piercing scream of a Bald Eagle mascot, “Old Abe,” led the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry into 36 battles during the Civil War, against the Confederacy.
The Battle of Fredericktown, October 21, 1861, was the first battle on . . . — — Map (db m119693) HM WM
From Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was routed over the streets of cities and towns both large and small. Thus its nickname "The Main Street of America." In Illinois, the first state to have all of Route 66 paved, the infamous highway was routed . . . — — Map (db m139428) HM
By 1898 a 10-foot wide road was built through the Gallatin Canyon to Taylors Fork and the park line. In 1911 a crude, narrow wagon road went to "Yellowstone" (West Yellowstone), 90 miles from the county seat at Bozeman. In 1926, the road was . . . — — Map (db m113833) HM
Dred Scott, whose name is associated with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision of 1857, was born in Virginia between 1795-1809. In 1818 he was in Madison County, Alabama. He came to Florence with the Peter Blow family in 1820. About . . . — — Map (db m35183) HM
Built in 1892 by William Turner (W.T.) Davis, this building is one of the few remaining buildings in Florida covered with a galvanized sheet metal facade, in this example produced by the Mesker Brothers Iron Works of St. Louis, Missouri. This use of . . . — — Map (db m96934) HM
Here in the southern extent of Missouri’s historic southeast Lead Belt, Fredericktown was laid out on Saline Creek, 1819, by state legislator Nathaniel Cook. Commissioners T. F. Tong, Joseph Bennett, James Dotson, John Burditt, and Henry Whitener . . . — — Map (db m61715) HM
Appointed by Sheriff Seth Bullock Deadwood’s 1st Sheriff, US Marshal Captain A Troop Grisby’s Cowboy Regiment Spanish American War Built 1882 — — Map (db m305898) HM
This property
has been placed on the
National Register of
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
December 28, 2000
— — Map (db m119704) HM
The story of heroine Millie Cooper is one of the great legends of Howard County. Mildred, nicknamed Millie by her father, was born in Madison County, Kentucky. She lived there until her father, Braxton, and his two brothers, Benjamin and Sarshall, . . . — — Map (db m252453) HM
Reynolds County owes its beginning to two fur trappers, Henry Fry and Andrew Henry. Henry Fry, the first white inhabitant of the county, settled here in 1812, Andrew Henry came in 1816, other pioneers soon followed and slowly the narrow valleys . . . — — Map (db m241068) HM WM
In the year 1810 a number of families emigrated,
mostly from Madison County, Kentucky, and made
the first permanent settlement in the Boonslick
country.
Several of the number were Baptists who came with
the purpose of planting the gospel . . . — — Map (db m252637) HM
Two small houses shared this choice corner location in 1866, but after 1875, photographs reveal the unmistakable steeply pitched roof and central gable of this splendid Gothic Revival style residence.
Expansion and remodeling during the 1890s . . . — — Map (db m117044) HM
Samuel Judy (Tschudi), a Swiss immigrant, was the first permanent white settler. He bought a crude log cabin from Ephraim Conner in 1801. He planted an orchard and completed the first brick home (opposite West Main Street) in 1808.
The area . . . — — Map (db m196835) HM
Born in Madison County, Kentucky, Christopher (Kit) Carson was the ninth of fourteen children. At the age of nine, when Kit's father died, he helped support the family and at 14, he was apprenticed as a saddle and harness maker. Two years later, . . . — — Map (db m252447) HM
Civil War Alton
In spring, 1861, pro-Confederate militia in St. Louis, Missouri, threatened to capture the U.S. arsenal there. Union forces in Illinois commandeered the steamboat City of Alton, sailed south, and and at midnight on . . . — — Map (db m133299) HM
Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson
Famous old west FigureWas born in Madison County on December 24, 1809
Less than two years later, the Carson family moved to Missouri. After his father, Lindsey Carson, . . . — — Map (db m67796) HM WM
In Memory of the Pioneers who with energy born of conviction, wrested wealth from the earth and gave an empire to untold generations to come. This memorial is dedicated by one of Kentucky's sons 1775-1906
Pioneer Monument
Erected . . . — — Map (db m86284) HM
Route 66, the Mother Road, is an American icon that symbolizes romance and freedom of the open road. Born in 1926, Route 66 was one of the first numbered U.S. highways, journeying 2,500 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. Today, you can still "get . . . — — Map (db m144542) HM
A native of Scotland, Alexander Beaton came to the United States in 1843. He migrated to Texas in 1848 after serving in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. In 1850 he settled in Corsicana and began the practice of law. He was chairman of the . . . — — Map (db m60493) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
