Thomas Dixon Jr.

1864-1946

Minister, politician, & author. Film "Birth of a Nation" was based on his novel The Clansman. Grave is 1500 ft. N.

Marker is at the intersection of West Marion Street and North Martin Sreet, on the right when traveling west on ...

Saint John’s Church

Built in 1835, this church replaced the Lunenburg

Parish Lower Church (ca. 1732), abandoned after the American Revolution and the disestablishment of the Anglican Church. Different denominations occupied some colonial Anglican churches; others fell into ruin. Saint John’s Church, featuring Flemish-bond ...

John Pratt

Inventor of first practical

typewriter, Pat. 1866.

Born Union S.C. April 13,

1831. Died Chattanooga

Tenn, July 21, 1905

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

Courtesy hmdb.org

Where the Dodgers Made Baseball History and Jackie Robinson Chan

Once upon a time (1890-1957), there was a major league baseball team in Brooklyn—the Dodgers. They played their games at Ebbets Field (1913-1957) in Flatbush, where the fans and players dodged the trolley cars to get to the ballpark. But ...

Home of Benjamin Lundy

Here in 1815 he organized the Union Human Society, the first abolitionist society in the U.S.

Born 1789 N.J. Died 1839 Illinois.

Edited The Genius of Universal Emancipation 1821-1838. Devoted his life to the abolition of slavery.

Marker is on East Main ...

Jacksonville

Near this site, now inundated by the waters of Don Pedro Reservoir, stood the historic town of Jacksonville. It was settled by Julian Smart who planted the first garden and orchard in the spring of 1849. Named for Colonel A. ...

Major Richard Ira Bong

1920 – 1945

This Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter, through the efforts of General George C. Kenney, was donated by the United States Air Force in memory of Major Richard I. Bong. Major Bong a native of Poplar, was credited with destroying ...

John Briest

Born Nov. 11, 1836, in Trenton.

He started in the printing business at an early age and became foreman of the Trenton True American print shop. He started the penny daily newspaper The Emporium, which remained in operation from 1867 to ...

John H. B. Latrobe House

On an evening in October, 1833, three of Baltimore's most discerning gentlemen were gathered around a table in the back parlor of this house. Fortified with “some old wine and some good cigars,” John Pendleton Kennedy, James H. Miller and ...

Theodore Dehone Judah

1826 – 1863

As Chief Engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, Judah’s engineering skill, political savvy and financial genius, along with the promoters’ capital, culminated in formation and construction of the Trans – Sierra leg of the first transcontinental railroad. While ...