To the Rescue

Top of the Town

The brick building across the street opened in 1928 as the

Convent of Bon Secours (literally, “good help”). The convent’s sisters had arrived in Baltimore from France in 1881. In Baltimore they quietly nursed both wealthy ...

Archibald Roane

A short distance north lived Archibald Roane, Continental soldier, frontier judge and the second governor of Tennessee. He is buried in Pleasant Forest Cemetery, one~half mile south. Many other pioneer settlers are also buried there.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Washington Street Methodist Church

A church was built here between 1803 and 1805; another church, erected 1832, was burned by Union troops in 1865 and reconstructed in 1866 of salvaged brick and clay mortar. Present church dedicated 1875. Bishop Wm. Capers (1790-1855), founder of ...

Aaron Montgomery Ward Gardens

In Grant Park

Aaron Montgomery Ward had a vision for Chicago’s lakefront that set him apart from most of his contemporaries. For two decades (1890-1910),he fought tirelessly to preserve Chicago’s lake shore as an open space and assure the city’s “front ...

Rowe Building

Attributed to famed architect William Le Baron Jenney, the Rowe Building, a printing arts factory built in 1892, typifies the late nineteenth century Romanesque Revival style.

Renovated in 1980, the Rowe Building is a distinguished member of the Printers Row family ...

Nichols-Howerton Building

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on 3rd Street north of East Courthouse Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Merchants & Farmers Bank

Circa 1928

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on 3rd Street near East Courthouse Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Benjamin Franklin

Front of Monument:

Born in Boston, 17 January, 1706.

Died in Philadelphia, 17 April, 1790.

Right Side of Monument:

Treaty of Peace and Independence

3 September, 1783

Rear of Monument:

Eripuit Colo Tulmen Sceptrumque Tyrannis.

Left Side of Monument:

Declaration ...

Union Assault on the Bridge

Union General John G. Foster’s prime objective, the wooden covered Wilmington & Weldon railroad bridge, crossed the Neuse River here. After the 51st and 52nd North Carolina regiments were pushed back by the Union advance coming through the fields on ...

Residence site of James Burt

Residence site of

James Burt

1761-1852

Lieutenant in Revolution

Assemblyman and Senator

1797-1826

Marker is on New York Route 17A 0.2 miles east of Forester Ave, on the left when traveling east.

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