Lerch Tavern

1797

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

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Union Canal Milestone

A gift to honor the service of

Herman S. Sheidy

to the Heidelberg Heritage Society

Presented by His Sister, Lyn Marsh

Marker is at the intersection of Penn ...

Fort Argyle

Near here, on the West bank of the Ogeechee River, Fort Argyle was built in 1733, to command one of the main passes by which enemy Indians had recently invaded South Carolina, and to give protection to the settlers of ...

W. S. Brooks High School

The first public high school for African Americans in Calvert County was opened in 1938 and served until desegregation in 1966. Named for William Sampson Brooks (1865–1934). Born in Calvert County, Rev. Brooks was an advocate of education, 44th Bishop ...

Birthplace of John Carroll

Born 1735 — Died 1815

First archbishop in United States, 1808. At request of Congress he accompanied Benj. Franklin, Saml. Chase and Chas. Carroll of Carrollton to Quebec in an effort to have Canada unite with the thirteen colonies in the ...

Civil War Cannons - Owen County Indiana

"Soldiers War Memorial" in Riverside Cemetery

[ Stone Base - Side 1 ]

Cannon Used in War for the Unity

1861 - - 1865

Loaned by War Dept. U. S. A.

[ Stone Base - Side 2 ]

Dedicated to the

Union Soldiers of Owen County

By:

Gettysburg ...

Dr. William Cleland's House

circa 1732

This early Georgian single house was apparently built by George Ducat, a shipwright, for his daughter Margaret, on her second marriage in 1732, to Dr. William Cleland, of Crail, Scotland. This section of Tradd Street is one of ...

Walter and Mae Simms House

Austin architect Roger Q. Small designed this unique 1935 home for Walter and Mae (Moore) Simms, who established Simms Fish Market in 1915 and delivered gulf coast seafood to hotels and restaurants throughout central Texas for nearly forty years. The ...

Site of First Church Building in Cuthbert, Georgia

The first church building in Cuthbert was erected on this site in 1839. Deacons Stephen Lundy and Allen Moye bought this lot from Jane Reynolds in 1837. The congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, constituted in 1831, moved from their ...

Huffman Prairie

1904 - 1905

The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. -Henry David Thoreau

After their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the ...

Sir George Cayley

1853

I feel perfectly confident that we shall be able to transport ourselves and families, and their goods and chattels, more securely by air than by water...."

-Sir George Cayley

After the Montgolfier brothers, mankind was ready to move beyond floating to flying. ...