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Maricopa's Jail

This original iron structure served as the City of Maricopa's Jail for 50 to 60 yrs. (From the teens to the 1960's) It primary functioned as a "Drunk Tank."

Marker can be reached from California Street (California Route 33) north of ...

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John McDonogh

1737-1809

Elizabeth McDonogh

1746-1808

Parents of John McDonogh

Founder

McDonogh School for Boys

Restored by

The McDonogh Alumni Association

1949

Marker can be reached from the intersection of West Fayette Street and North Greene Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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“Sojer Grave”

When the South Carolina Public Service Authority was clearing the lands for the Santee Cooper Lakes, and removing buildings and other things man had erected during his two and a half centuries in upper Berkeley, there were numerous small items ...

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Strategic Junction

Hunter Mill Road and the AL&H Railroad

At the beginning of the American Civil War in mid-1861, Union General Irvin McDowell, Commander, Army of Northeastern Virginia, knew that his army lacked an adequate supply of wagons. The Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire ...

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Cornet Joseph Parsons

A Founder of Northampton, Massachusetts

In Memory of

Cornet Joseph Parsons

c. 1618-1683

A founder of Northampton

and his wife

Mary (Bliss) Parsons

c. 1628-1711/12

Marker can be reached from Bridge Street (Massachusetts Route 9).

Courtesy hmdb.org

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George J. Heisely Residence and the National Anthem

In the building at the northwest corner of N. Second and Walnut Streets lived George J. Heisely (1789-1880) who was a Harrisburg mathematical instrument and clockmaker. Heisely had joined the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia's First Brigade during the ...

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Gen. James Jackson Home Site

Site of the Home

Presented By The State Of Georgia

— To —

Major General James Jackson

Born 1757 - Died 1806

Revolutionary Hero, Statesman,

And Governor Of Georgia

Placed By

The Savannah Chapter Of The

Daughters Of The American Revolution

1949

Marker is on Abercorn St. near E. ...

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Civil War General John T. Wilder

(Side one):

Wilder (1830-1917), resident of Greensburg circa 1858-1869, built this home 1865-1866. He was millwright and inventor; provided major employment in the area. Enlisted in Civil War; appointed lieutenant colonel of Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry 1861 by Indiana Governor Oliver ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Drum-Major for Justice

Assassinated April 4, 1968

1929 ~ 1968

"Unless we learn to live together as brothers, surely we will die apart as fools.”

Marker is on West Main Street, on the left when traveling west. ...

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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

 

Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995), pioneering historian of the American Jew, founded the American Jewish Archives (AJA) in Cincinnati in 1947. In the aftermath of World War II and the brutal destruction of European Jewry, Marcus anticipated the need ...

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