John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937 / The Standard Oil Company

John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937

Born at Richford, New York, John D. Rockefeller moved to the Cleveland area with his family at age 14. He began his business career as a bookkeeper in 1855. From modest beginnings he became one ...

Entrance to Cemetery of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society

The society has been in continuous existence since its organization in 1822. It was chartered 1834. Its charities are administered to the needs of the community without regard to creed or race.

Marker is on Gadsden Street, on the right when ...

The Judy Memorial Chapel

Built 1905

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Morris Artillery

Rodes's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Rodes's Division

Carter's Battalion Page's Battery

The Morris Artillery

Four Napoleons

July 1 Not engaged until the Union forces on Seminary Ridge extended their line to the right when it opened upon them with a ...

The King William Artillery

Rodes's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Rodes's Division

T.H. Carter's Battalion W.P. Carter's Battery

The King William Artillery

Two 10 pounder Parrotts and two Napoleons

July 1 Soon after arriving here it opened an enfilading fire on the Union forces near ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 27, 1864, Baird’s and Morgan’s divisions, 14th Corps [US], moving on the left of Gen. Sherman’s army from Sandersville to Louisville, crossed Ogeechee River at Fenn’s Bridge. Baird turned SE on the lower road and camped near the ...

Cooper's Academy / Bethesda Methodist Church

[Front]:

Cooper’s Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until 1927, and a public school 1927-1958. Founded by Moses Cooper, H.J. Cooper, and Ada E. Martin, it was first called Cooper’s Academy, ...

Wright Brothers' Memorial

[Marker Front]:

On this spot

Sept. 17, 1900

Wilbur Wright

began the assembly of

the

Wright Brothers'

first experimental

glider

which led to man's

conquest of the air.

[Marker Back]:

Sept. 17, 1987

This is a

reproduction of the

Wright Brother's

Memorial Marker

placed on this site

by the Citizens of

Kitty Hawk on

May 2, 1928

Marker is on Moore ...

Erected to the Memory of the Pioneers of the Millerton Area Whos

Winchell Cove Cemetery

The site of Fort Miller (1851-1866) lies about one mile north and that of the pioneer town of Millerton (1851-1874) about one and one-half miles northwest on the then Visalia - Stockton Road. Both sites are now covered ...

The Bradley Massacre

Near this spot, on May 14, 1856, a Seminole war party attacked the home of an early settler Capt. Robert Duke Bradley of the Florida Foot Volunteers. Two of the Bradley children were killed before the Indians withdrew. This was ...