Athens Cemetery

After citizens petitioned for its closure, an unofficial burial ground in this area (large lot 13) closed in 1857. That same year, local residents buried prominent planter, Mason and school superintendent William J. Brantley here on one acre donated by ...

John Matthews McDonald

North Carolina-born John Matthews McDonald (1827-1883) came to Texas in 1848 and lived first at Larissa, Cherokee Co. and then Mound Prairie, Anderson Co., where his brother Murdoch earlier settled. Two years later, he moved to the young town of ...

The Mercer Soldiers Orphans School

In memory of

The Mercer

Soldiers Orphans School

Mercer, Pa.

Opened in 1868 Closed in 1889

Maintained by the

State of Pennsylvania

for the purpose of

providing a home and education

for the children of her

soldiers and sailors

who served during the Civil War

This tablet placed by

the Sixteeeners Association

of Mercer, ...

Crossing the Mason and Dixon

Pennsylvania, at Last!

Four thousands of Confederates in Gen. Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North in 1863, the rate of march exceeded thirty miles a day. Since this part of Maryland is so narrow, splashing across the Potomac River in ...

The Wellsburg United Methodist Church

A Fellowship of Believers For More Than Two Centuries

Methodism in Wellsburg dates back to 1787 with the establishment of the “Ohio Circuit.” Early services were held in “The Academy” on High Street. Bishop Asbury preached at the courthouse on September ...

Ghost Riders of the Chisholm Trail

The silhouette on the bluff to the East, astride the actual Chisholm Trail, was completed in 1995 after hundreds of hours of volunteered labor, land, and donations. The "Ghosts" will forever remind us of the great cattle drives, 1866 - ...

The Colored Methodist Protestant St. John’s Chapel of Baltimore

1833

Originally constructed as a log cabin in 1833, St. John’s Chapel and land adjacent thereto served the local black community as a house of worship and burying ground. Services had been held in the present chapel since its construction in ...

Founding of the Cigar Industry in Tampa

In 1886 two cigar factories were completed at Tampa signaling the founding of the industry in the area. Pioneer manufacturer was Vincente Martinez Ybor, a native of Spain, who had made cigars at Havana and Key West. Ybor's move to ...

Murphy Brothers

The brothers John Murphy (1824-1892) and Daniel Murphy (1826-1882) reportedly pitched their trading tent near this site late in 1848.

Marker is on Main Street west of Big Trees Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The French Market

Rebuilt 1936-1938

[Panel 1]:

Ancient French Market dates its legal birth from September 10, 1784, when the “Authorities of Justice and Administration” decided that all retailers in the city should conduct their businesses on this spot.

In 1791 the first ...