Cupolas from the Virginia State Penitentiary

The cupolas you see here sat atop the Virginia State Penitentiary building that stood not far from here. Benjamin Henry Latrobe's original penitentiary was replaced by the building below in the 20th century, but was torn down in 1992 when ...

The Rocky Mountain News

This tablet is the

Property of the State of Colorado

On this site stood the original home of

Rocky Mountain News

First newspaper established in

the Pike's Peak Gold Region

Founded by Wm. N.Byers, April 23, 1859,

Champion of Law and Order in

Jefferson Territory; "Advocate of

Faith in ...

Mother George

Civil War Nurse

The first Fort Wayne home of Mrs. Eliza E. George was near this spot. At the age of 54 she helped make Civil War nursing history. Mother George, as she was known to thousands of Union soldiers, served ...

In Memorial to the Commercial Fisherman Lost at Sea

Down to the sea in ships they go, these chosen men of steel. Though mist and foam and northwest wind is pounding at the keel. So sail they must each crispy morn, away from trees and sod. The sea may ...

The Right Wing at McDonough

On the night of Nov. 16, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of General Sherman´s army (USA), which had marched from Atlanta the morning before on its destructive March to the Sea, camped in and near McDonough. Hq. ...

The Battle At Droop Mountain

November 6, 1863

Nearly five months after West Virginia was admitted into the Union, the Confederate army of Brigadier General John Echols still occupied the prosperous Greenbrier Valley region of the new state. From its headquarters in Lewisburg, his army was ...

Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement

Four Students at North Carolina A & T State University conducted the first lunch counter sit-in on February 1, 1960 at the Woolworth Store.

Franklin McCain

Joseph McNeil

Ezell Blair, Jr.

David Richmond

"Sometimes taking a stand for what is undeniably right means taking a ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Wilbur Lee Mapp

1994

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., planned to speak at Trinity AME Zion Church in Greensboro (a few blocks from here) on April 4, 1968. He canceled ...

Corporal William Othello Wilson

United States Army Medal of Honor Recipient and Buffalo Soldier

William Othello Wilson, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, enlisted in the U.S. Army on August 21, 1889, at age 22 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

He was subsequently assigned to the 9th Cavalry, ...

The Battle At Droop Mountain

November 6, 1863

Nearly five months after West Virginia was admitted into the Union, the Confederate army of Brigadier General John Echols still occupied the prosperous Greenbrier Valley region of the new state. From its headquarters in Lewisburg, his army was ...