Paramount Theatre

This is a superior rendering of the "Art Deco" or "Moderne" style of movie palace built during the rise of the motion picture industry. The Paramount, which opened on December 16, 1931, is the most ambitious theatre design of architect ...

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 ...

The African American Cemetery

Discovering Madison

"I walk in the graveyard, I walk through the graveyard

To lay this body down.

I lay in the grave and stretch out my arms;

I lay this body down."

-African American spiritual from the era of slavery, as recorded in James Weldon ...

The Madison Family Cemetery

Discovering Madison

"The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished an perpetuated."

-James Madison, Advice to My Country, 1834

The Madison Family Cemetery is the understated resting place for two of ...

Jackson's Mother

In Westlake Cemetery is the grave of the mother of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The monument at the grave was placed by Captain Thomas Ranson, who had fought in Jackson's old brigade in the War between the States.

Marker is ...

The Sugarloaf Massacre

Near this spot occurred

The Sugarloaf Massacre

On September 11, 1780 a detachment of Captain John van Etten's Company, Northampton County Militia, resting at the spring was surprised by a band of Indians and Tories led by the Senece Chief Roland Montour.

Those ...

The Spirit of the American Doughboy

1917 1918

Emmitsburg In The Great War

This memorial

erected and dedicated in honor of

those from Emmitsburg District

who served in The World War

The Supreme Sacrifice Made By

Bentzel, Arthur H* Hahn, Martin Luther* Rowe, Francis Edward*

Elder, ...

Old Army Bridge Over the Platte River

Erected in 1875. This bridge was a vital link between Cheyenne, Fort Laramie and the Military outposts, Indiana Agencies and gold fields of the Black Hills, Dakota Region.

Placed by The Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming, June 1951

Marker is on Wyoming ...

The Dwyer Settlement in Lake County, Illinois

In 1837 William Dwyer, his wife Mary, and her brother, Dr. Richard Murphy, established a claim to the property on this site and created what was known as the Dwyer Settlement. The Dwyer homestead included a tavern and one of ...

The Synagogue of Capharnaum

The synagogue is made up of four units, namely the prayer hall, the eastern courtyard, the southern porch, and a side-room near the northwestern corner of the prayer hall.

The prayer hall, with the façade toward Jerusalem, is rectangular in ground ...