Freedom Plaza

Civil War to Civil Rights

“I have a dream.”

                            Martin Luther King, Jr. August 1963

The block-long plaza at 13th and Pennsylvania Avenue just ahead to ...

Bald Cypress

[Native American Agriculture]

This tree commemorates the many contributions Native Americans have made to American agriculture, plants domesticated and harvested by Native Americans in the New World still make up a significant proportion of all vegetables produced worldwide.

November 18, ...

Buckingham Baptist Church

1771 - 1949

Built in early eighteenth century

by order King of England as an

Episcopal Church. Reorganized as

Baptist Church in 1771 with

Rene Chastain, Pastor

Edgar H Patton, Pastor

Marker is on James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) 0.3 miles north of Trents Mill Road (County ...

Las Vegas' Most Historic Hotel & Casino

1906 – 2006

One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration

Golden Gate Hotel & Casino

One Fremont Street

Marker can be reached from Fremont Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Post-Civil War Alexandria

Side A

After having been ravaged by fire during the Civil War, Alexandria was rebuilt and, with the building of railroads after Reconstruction, regained its place as the commercial, financial, medical and transportation center of central Louisiana. By the early 1900s ...

Tryon's Camp

Before and after the Battle of Alamance, the Militia of the Governor William Tryon camped nearby, along Alamance Creek. May 13-19, 1771.

Marker is at the intersection of NC Highway 49 South and 1300 Bellemont Lane on NC Highway 49 South. ...

Woodside Store

Built in 1854 among sawmills and redwood groves by Dr. R.O. Tripp and M.A. Parkhurst. Operated by Dr. Tripp in person (who also served as dentist, librarian, postmaster and community leader) until his death in 1909. Purchased by the County ...

Holmes County Draft Riots

On French Ridge in Richland Township, on June 5, 1863, local citizens in defiance of conscription attacked Elias Robinson, an enrolling officer of the Union Army. When Captain James Drake, the provost marshal, imprisoned the ringleaders, armed locals released them. ...

America's First Battle of World War II: The Philippines

For America, WWII began of December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first of Japan's day-long assault on locations throughout the Pacific. Major American installations on Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, were also devastated; so ...

Georgians in the Union Army

The First Georgia Volunteer Infantry Battalion (U.S.), also known as the First Georgia State Troops Volunteers (U.S.), was a United States Army unit raised in Dawson and other North Georgia counties during the Civil War, after federal troops entered the ...