Georgia / North Carolina

(North Side):

Georgia

The colony of Georgia was charted in 1732, named for King George II of England, and settled in 1733. It was one of the 13 original states.

(South Side):

North Carolina

Colonized, 1585 – 87, by first English settlers in America; permanently ...

Site of the First Theatre

William Levingston, merchant of New Kent County, built the first theatre in English America on this site c. 1716. For three decades companies of actors entertained audiences at the "Play House" with latest successes from the London Stage. In 1745 ...

Battle of Kelly's Ford

Following the December 1862 Fredericksburg debacle at Fredericksburg, and the infamous Mud March of January 1863, both sides settled into winter camps on opposite sides of the Rappahannock River. Several cavalry raids and skirmishes broke the dull routine of camp ...

Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum

Site Before Bombing • Site Today

Before April 19, 1995, the two-block area between NW 4th and 6th Streets and Robinson and Harvey Avenues served as the northern edge of the downtown core. This area was a workplace to hundreds ...

Original Site Of San Miguel School

Original Site of San Miguel School

1888 - 1950

Donated by the citizens of San Miguel

Designed by Bunn H. Turnbow

Marker is on K Street 0.2 miles north of 10th Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Wallisville

Site of

Old Wallisville

Settled in 1825 by Elisha H. R. Wallis, a pioneer from Georgia, on land in grant of Joseph Vehlein, a contractor working to place colonists in Texas.

Chambers County was organized 1858; Wallisville was made county seat. A post ...

George Wythe House and Gardens

This mid-eighteenth century building was the home of George Wythe, tutor and friend of Jefferson. Wythe was the first professor of law at an American college, and first Virginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. Washington used the house as ...

Peyton Randolph House

For more than fifty years this was the home of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), who served the Colony of Virginia in many of its highest governmental offices and became the first president of the Continental Congress. His father, Sir John Randolph, ...

The Governor's Palace and Gardens

The Governor's Palace was the home of five Royal Lieutenant-Governors, two Royal Governors, and the first two Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. An act by Virginia's General Assembly in 1706 authorized the construction of ...

Children's Area

Children were a significant part of the worldwide response in April 1995, responding with words of encouragement and messages of hope - for Rescue Workers specifically - and Oklahomans in general. Thousands of ceramic tiles were sent to Oklahoma in ...