Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building

Central Masonic Institute of Alabama acquired property 1847 and erected building. Confederate Hospital during War Between the States. Dallas County Courthouse (1866-1901) on removal of County Seat from Cahaba. Presbyterian High School for Boys in early 1900’s. Acquired by Vaughan ...

Site of the First Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Clemso

On this spot, under a great oak three which stood here, the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College was held May 2, 1888.

The following is a copy of the record of that meeting.

"Fort Hill, ...

The Molly Brown House

Has been designated a Registered National Historic Building under the provisions of the historic site act of 1935. This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the State of Colorado

United States Department of the Interior

National Park ...

Northern Terminus Indian Creek Canal

First Canal in Alabama

Incorporated 1820

Completed 1831

This canal was constructed to the Tennessee River to facilitate the transportation of cotton to market. Developers were: Thomas Fearn, LeRoy Pope, Stephen S. Ewing, Henry Cook, and Samuel Hazard.

Marker can be reached from Spragins ...

Esther Hobart Morris

Proponent of the Legislative Act Which

in 1869 gave distinction to the Territory of

Wyoming

as the 1st government in the world to grant

Women Equal Rights

Marker is at the intersection of Capitol Avenue and 24th Street on Capitol Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The first steam-powered locomotive reached Cheyenne on November

Side A

By 1868 the community boasted 3,000 to 4,000 residents, plus business, schools, churches and newspapers. The UP's stone roundhouse was the first permanent structure (non-wood) built in town. The City's phenomenal growth produced its nickname, "The Magic City of ...

Confederate March From the North Anna River

Following the Union army's departure from the North Anna River on 26 May 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee cautiously moved his army south toward Richmond to stay between the Federals and the capital. Lee's wagon trains, using nearby Ellett's ...

Army of the Potomac

July 2, 1863

Second, Fifth and Sixth Corps, Lockwood's Brigade from the Middle Department, First and Third Brigades Second Cavalry Division, Third Cavalry Division and the Artillery Reserve reached the field of Gettysburg. First and Second Brigades First Cavalry Division ...

Mother's Garden

Mother's Garden was part of the summer estate of H. R. Mayo Thom. The garden was built in the early 1900's by Reginald Giddings for Mr. Thom's wife, Helen Hopkins Thom. The garden was maintained by the Bishop family until ...

Mother's Day In Albion / Mother's Day

Marker Front:

On May 13, 1877, the second Sunday of the month, Juliet Calhoun Blakeley stepped into the pulpit of the Methodist-Episcopal Church and completed the sermon for the Reverend Myron Daugherty. According to local legend, Daugherty was distraught because ...