Major Charles W. Davis, Infantry United States Army / "Above and

Major Charles W. Davis

A native of Montgomery, graduated of Lanier, alumnus of the Universities of Alabama and Maryland. Major Davis was awarded the Medal of Honor as Executive Officer, 2d Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. "For distinguishing himself ...

Carnegie Library of Homestead

Historic Landmark

Carnegie Library

of Homestead

Alden and Harlow, Architects

1896-98

Marker can be reached from 10th Avenue 0.1 miles west of Andrew Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bost Building

Has Been Designated A

This building possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America.

This was the headquarters of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers at the time of the Homestead Strike. It is one of ...

Taliaferro County World War I Memorial

1917-1918

Dedicated to those of Taliaferro County, GA. who offered their lives

in Humanity's defense

in the

War of the Nations

and in memory of

those who gave

their full measure

of devotion

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street (U.S. 278) and Alexander Street, on ...

Kennedy-Nixon Taft-Hartley Debate

On April 21, 1947, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon debated the Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act at the Penn-McKee Hotel. The first debate between the two House Labor Committee members was a precursor to the iconic Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate ...

Cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty Pedestal

At this site on August 5, 1884, the cornerstone of the pedestal of the Statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” was laid with ceremony by William A. Brodie, Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York. Grand lodge ...

Confederate Memorial

(shaft)

Dedicated to the glory of God in memory of our Confederate soldiers who fought in the War Between the States 1861-1865

Erected by the City Point Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy 1949

(base)

Standing hand to hand and clasping hands - we ...

Aztalan Mound Park

Site of the famous prehistoric Indian stockade-protected village known as Aztalan first described by N.F. Hyer in the Milwaukee Advertiser in January 1837. Described by Dr. Increase A. Lapham, in The Antiquities of Wisconsin in 1855. Explored by the Milwaukee ...

Bost Building

Completed, early 1892. Through that summer, it was headquarters for the strike committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers. Telegraph lines installed here transmitted the news from journalists who were covering the Homestead Strike.

Marker is on 8th ...

Confederate Gun Shop

When the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee grew short of arms in 1863, Governor Shorter of Alabama and President Jefferson Davis persuaded Major O. O. Nelson of Tuscumbia, Alabama, to organize a company to erect a Gun Shop. ...