Guilford Revolutionary War Memorial

In Memory Of All

The Revolutionary Soldiers

Of Guilford, Connecticut.

Placed By

Agnes Dickinson Lee Chapter

Daughters Of The American Revolution

1940

Marker is at the intersection of Park Street and Broad Street, on the right when traveling south on Park Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Florida 2000 Center of Population

Each decade, after it tabulates the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the center of population for the U.S. and each state. The center is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of each ...

Olive Tilford Dargan

1869-1968

Writer of fiction and

poetry. "Fielding Burke,"

her pen name. Author of

Call Home the Heart and

Highland Annals. Home,

1925-68, was 1/4 mile N.

Marker is on Haywood Road (Business U.S. 19/23) near Balsam Avenue, on the right when ...

Site of the Jerome C. and Mary Chiles Davis Homestead

Two olive and two fig trees survive from the Davis’ prize-winning farm of the 1850’s. Nearby also stand some of the original shingled buildings of the University State Farm, located here in 1906. From this nucleus, the University Farm has ...

Dodge County

This County created by Act of the Legislature Oct. 26, 1870, is named for William E. Dodge, a New York lumberman who owned large areas of the forest lands and who persuaded Congress to remove taxation from “the great staple ...

The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus

This painting by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), entitled "The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus" was a companion piece to one of Lindsay's poems. Lindsay recited the poem in 1915 for President Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet to commemorate the opening ...

Stuart and Lincoln Law Office

Before he moved to Springfield Abraham Lincoln came to the law office of John Todd Stuart to barrow law books.

Henry E. Dummer---Stuart;s partner at the time---recalled that the "uncouth looking" Lincoln said little and seemed timid. Yet when he did ...

70 Bedford Street

Landmark New York

About 1807 this house was built by John P. Broome, sailmaker and “crier of the courts of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol delivery and of the general session of the peace.” Although altered over the years, the ...

Bedford Street

Once a dirt country trail designed as an access to Christopher Street. A popular village thoroughfare. Having been mapped prior to 1799, Bedford Street is one of the earliest recorded streets in Greenwich Village. This street is named after Bedford ...

Leeds Historic CCC Camp

In the depression year of 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program provided much needed employment for the nation's youth 18-25 years old. The men had to complete the 8th grade, and have 3-4 family ...