Original Methodist Church

1831

Here in 1830-31, 64 Methodists led by Peter Doub built the first church in Greensboro. Moving to a second church on West Market Street in 1851, the congregation relocated a third and final time to the third block in 1893. ...

East Town Neighborhood

When the White family began selling off their farm, new neighborhoods sprang up in the place of cotton fields. North Confederate Avenue (originally called Pine Street, later called Academy) was first opened in the early 1890s. In 1904 the White ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Taney

The last surviving warship from the attack on Pearl Harbor

Open for visitors as part of the Baltimore Maritime Museum ... the USCGC TANEY was built in 1936 and was in continuous service until 1986. In addition to Pearl Harbor, ...

Adams County Peace Monument - Honor Rolls

[[[ Left Side ]]]

[ Left - Small Plaque ]

Thomas Archibold

Pennsylvania

Pvt - Capt Bell’s Co

Revolutionary War

1755 - ? - 1837

[ Small Plaque ]

James Ball

Sgt - Col Bakers MD Regt

Revolutionary War

1751 - ? - 1834

[ ...

Harry Wade Exit Route

Some 100 wagons found themselves in Salt Lake City too late to cross the Sierra Nevada. They banded together under the name of Sand Walking Co. and started for the gold fields in California over the old Spanish Trail. After ...

20th Regiment Indiana Volunteers

20th Regt. Indiana

Volunteer Infantry.

July 2nd 1863.

———

Col. John Wheeler

Killed near by.

20th Ind.

Marker is at the intersection of Cross Avenue and Sickles Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Cross Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fannette Island

Tahoe’s Only Island

Over the last 100 years, Tahoe’s only island has been known by a number of names. In 1866, a group of young vacationers dreamed up the first name, Coquette, a word referring to a flirtatious or seductive woman. ...

Seven Days’ Battles

Glendale (Frayser’s Farm)

Willis Church Road runs from here to Malvern Hill. A large part of Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac followed this road south toward the James River, four miles ahead, near the end of the ...

The "3C's" Railroad

The rail line which passes just north of this site was the second railroad to serve Rock Hill. Part of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad (known locally as the 3C's), the first train on this line arrived here in ...

United States Synthetic Rubber Program 1939-1945

National Historic Chemical Landmark

Top plaque:

When the natural rubber supply from Southeast Asia was cut off at the beginning of World War II, the United States and its allies faced the loss of a strategic material. With U.S. government sponsorship, a ...