The Majestic Theater

opened in 1925 as a vaudeville and silent movie theater. It was the site of many important White House Press conferences during the Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as the world premiere of the movie "Gettysburg." The ...

The Bahamas Grant

1629 1929

To commemorate the

grant of these islands

by His Majesty

King Charles the First

to Sir Robert Heath

Attorney General

of England on the

30th day of October

1629

Marker is on West Bay Street east of Parliament Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The “Mannour of Ratcliffe”

800 acres patented January 17, 1659 to Robert Morris of London, mariner, “together with a Court Baron and all things thereunto belonging by the laws and customs of England.”

One of the earliest grants on the Eastern Shore.

Marker is at the ...

Matthew Tilghman

1718–1790

Here lived the planter and patriot called “Father of the Revolution in Maryland”

Speaker, Maryland Assembly, 1773–1774, President, Maryland Conventions and Chairman of Council of Safety, 1774–1776. Having headed each Maryland Delegation to Continental Congress, 1774–1776, he returned to Annapolis to ...

Chinese Miners of the Mother Lode

Following the California Gold Rush of ’49, swarms of Chinese miners came to make their mark on the diggings in the Mother Lode, including this Coloma Valley. They were industrious and self-contained and mostly content to thoroughly comb the old ...

The Town of Manatee

Side A

The Town of Manatee was officially chartered on June 19, 1903. This intersection of Central Street (present day 9th Street East) and Manatee Avenue became the heart of the town’s business district after the arrival of the Florida West ...

Meriwether County

Meriwether County, “Second Home” of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt and birthplace of three Ga. Governors -- Joseph M. Terrell, William Y. Atkinson and John M. Slaton -- was created by Act of Dec. 14, 1827 from Troup County. It was ...

"The Stage Leaves From Here"

Few images of the American West are more enduring than the stagecoach. On July 18, 1856, the United States mail line brought the first stagecoach to Fort Worth on its way to Fort Belknap. The stagecoach stopped at Steel’s Tavern ...

The Robert Morris Inn

Circa 1710

Robert Morris, Sr. and Robert Morris, Jr., a Revolutionary War financier, lived in the original section. The building served as town hall, convalscent home for World War I veterans and general store. Since the late 1940’s it has been ...

The Amiable Child Monument

Riverside Park

This unique New York City monument marks the site of one of the few private graves on public land within the five boroughs. It belongs to St. Claire Pollock (the namesake of nearby St. Clair Place), a child who ...