Mather Academy

[Front]

Mather Academy was founded in 1887 by the New England Southern Conference of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. It succeeded a freedmen's school opened during Reconstruction by Sarah Babcock, who returned to Massachusetts, married Rev. James ...

The 16th & 23d Corps March to Decatur

July 19, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., having camped on N. Fork Peachtree Cr., moved S. on old Shallowford Rd. to this point where it joined Schofield's 23d, which had marched S.E. from Goodwin's Crossing (Brookhaven), along roads now designated Briarwood ...

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

Terry L. Reynolds

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

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Formation of the Southern Methodist Church

One block west stood the Union Street Methodist Church, completed in 1820. There was held the first general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, May 1-23, 1846. At this meeting the Southern Methodist Church, which had separated from the ...

The Grave of Duncan Campbell & Jane McCrea

The Grave of

Duncan Campbell

& Jane McCrea

are just within and

to the left

of this gateway.

Marker is on Broadway (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling south.

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The Ave Maria Grotto

The work of

Brother Joseph Zoettl, O.S.B.

Has been recorded in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States Department of Interior 1984.

Marker is on Saint Bernard Drive SE.

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Welcome to the Betsy Ross House

Betsy Ross (1752 - 1836) lived and worked here on Arch Street during the American Revolution. The house where she boarded with the elderly Widow Lithgow has been restored to early 1777.

In 1776 Betsy Ross lost her husband John. ...

Permanence and Grandeur: Building the Federal Triangle

The Original PlanYou are standing on Pennsylvania Avenue, the nation's symbolic Main Street. Known for inaugural and other parades and civic demonstrations, its importance dates back to Pierre L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the city of Washington. L'Enfant designed this broad, ...

The Last Resting Place of Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790

"Venerated for benevolence, admired for talents, esteemed for patriotism, beloved for philanthropy."

Washington

"The sage whom two worlds claimed as their own."

Mirabeau

"He tore from the skies the lightning and from tyrants the sceptre."

Turgot

Marker ...

The Beginning of the Cigar Industry in West Tampa

A cigar factory built on this site in June 1892 by Hugh C. Macfarlane brought the first industry to the community of West Tampa. First operated by A. Del Pino and Company, it failed financially. In 1894 the O'Halloran Cigar ...