The First Oblong Friends Meeting House

The First Oblong Friends Meeting House was erected on this site in 1742. It was used as a place of worship until 1764. West of the site was the Friends burial ground.

During the fall and winter of 1778 ...

Mother Bethel

1791

Mother Bethel is the first African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in America, founded in 1791. Richard Allen (1760-1831), a former slave, was the founder, and later became the first bishop (1816) of the first African-American denomination in the United ...

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Labor leader, workers' advocate. Arrested and jailed in Homestead for speaking to striking steelworkers, 1919. When a judge asked who gave her a permit to speak publicly, she replied, "Patrick Henry. Thomas Jefferson. John Adams!"

Marker is on Amity Street near ...

In Memory of Those Men Who Died in the Battle of Piqua

"In memory of those men who died in

the Battle of Piqua, August 8, 1780,

the largest Revolutionary War battle

West of the Alleghenies."

Marker can be reached from Tecumseh Road (Ohio Route 369) north of Lower Valley Pike.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Plank Road Foreman

This statue of a Plank Road Foreman is dedicated to the establishment of the City of High Point and in honor of the men and women who worked in local industries and businesses that made it famous.

In the 1840’s and ...

Raising of the Bear Flag Monument

This Monument was erected by the Native Sons of the Golden West and the State of California to commemorate the raising of the Bear Flag on this spot June 14, 1846 by the Bear Flag Party and their declaration of ...

The B.Y.N. Co. Ticket Office/La billettetereie de la compagnie B

[English:]

This structure, built in 1900, is all that remains of a larger complex that included a warehouse and dock. At the time of the gold rush and for years afterwards, the riverfront was the transition point between Dawson City and ...

The Development of Valley Industry

While the Valley Railway, the precursor to Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, was founded primarily as a conduit for freight and passengers moving among Cleveland, Akron, and Canton, it also became integral to the success of two factories within the Cuyahoga ...

John W Draper and the Founding of the American Chemical Society

National Chemical Historic Landmark

On this site, 35 chemists formed the American Chemical Society, intending to stimulate original research, awaken and develop talent throughout the United States, provide fellowship, and ensure a better appreciation of the science by the general public. ...

The Flag of the United States of America

In the summer of 1847, this site, known than as the "Old Fort," was the first permanent Anglo-Saxon settlement in the west. It was here that the American Flag was first raised. This Sesquicentennial Flag Pole is raised as a ...