The Seedling Mile

Here is a section of an original Seedling Mile on the Lincoln Highway. It was completed November 3, 1915. Grand Island was the second city in the United States to build such an example of concrete roadway. The original Seedling ...

Needles El Garces Train Station

Needles, California

Formerly one of the grandest Harvey House Hotel, Restaurant & Santa Fe Train Stations. The hotel and restaurant were open from 1908 to 1949. The train station closed in 1988.

Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark program as a site worth ...

Anne Dallas Dudley

1876-1955

Anne Dudley played a significant role in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the State of Tennessee. A native of Nashville, she served as president of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, 1911-15; president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, ...

Audley Paul’s Fort

Nearby stood Capt. Audley Paul’s fort. built

in 1757 during the French and Indian War

(1754-1763) as one in a series of fortifications

to protect Virginia's frontier. Paul served as

a lieutenant in Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock’s

ill-fated expedition against the French at

Fort Duquesne in ...

Woodland Ferry

By the 1740s a ferry service was being regularly operated at this location by James Cannon. He was succeeded by his son Jacob, who constructeda much-needed causeway on this side of the river for the improvement of the business. Threatened ...

Kendleton

The site on which Kendleton now stands was originally a Mexican land grant to settler Elizabeth Powell, whose house was an early-day stage stop.

During the Texas Revolution, in 1836, Santa Anna's Mexican Army camped near here. Later the settlements ...

Middlesborough

English colony founded in 1886 by Alexander Arthur. Project financed by English company, the American Association, because of timber and rich mineral deposits here. Almost 100,000 mountainous acres in Va., Tenn., and Ky. purchased for the settlement. Town was named ...

Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site

Side A:

Designated by the Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists as a Distinguished Geological Site. Middlesboro is one of only a few cities on the North American Continent located in the basin of a meteorite impact structure.

Side B:

Sometime over the past ...

Hadley Park

In 1912, Nashville officials purchased 34 acres of land to provide a public park for Negro citizens. Originally a part of the John L. Hadley plantation, Hadley Park was dedicated on July 4th. It is considered the first public park ...

Mary Lindley Murray

In honor of

Mary Lindley Murray

wife of Robert Murray

for services rendered her country

during the American Revolution,

entertaining at her home, on this site,

Gen. Howe and his officers, until the

American troops under Gen. Putnam escaped.

Marker is at the intersection of Park Avenue and ...