Oak of the Golden Dream

Francisco Lopez made California’s first authenticated gold discovery on March 9, 1842. While gathering wild onions near an oak tree in Placerita Canyon he found gold particles clinging to the roots of the bulbs. The San Fernando placers and nearby ...

Bethel Primitive Baptist Church

Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, the second Baptist Church to be organized in the area of old Lowndes County, was constituted September 2, 1826. The

organizing Presbytery were: Elders Benjamin Manning. Matthew Albritton and Henry Melton, with Deacon William A. Knight. Charter ...

In the Name of Christ the King

To commemorate the first English Catholic Settlers in Virginia: Colonel Giles Brent, Deputy Governor of Maryland 1643; Margaret and Mary Brent who settled at Aquia 1647; George Brent, King’s Attorney General 1686, Member House of Burgesses 1688, who petitioned for ...

The Dolly Madison House

Site of dwelling house

owned by

Ex-President of the Unitied States

James Madison

1828 to 1836

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Home of his widow

Mrs. Dolly Payne Madison

1837 to 1849

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Home of

Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.

and family

1851 to ...

The Cosmos Club

The Cosmos Club, founded in 1878 for “The advancement of its members in science, literature, and art,” occupied several houses on Lafayette Square from 1882 to 1952 including the adjacent Madison and Tayloe Houses and this building, which replaced houses ...

The Shirley Cemetery

This small family cemetery is the final resting place of Richard O. (1802-1857) and Susan (1813-1880) Shirley and possibly several of their six children.

Richard Shirley was a farmer and tavern keeper who owned approximately 400 acres of land near Gainesville ...

Brownsboro Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery

After migrating from Norway in 1845, Ole Reierson bought the land that included this cemetery site (1.' mi. ESE). He chose the spot for his burial and carved several of the plain brown gravestones before he died in 1852. The ...

The Jell-O Company

1900-1964

Orator F. Woodward, owner of the Genesee Pure Food Company bought the rights to Jell-O from P.B. Wait in 1899 for $450. Production of “America's most famous dessert” began in 1900 at the Genesee Pure Food Company factory located on ...

Site of the town of Homer

Also known as Angelina

Third county seat of

Angelina County,

1858 - 1890

Marker is on Farm to Market Road 326, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Battle of Richmond

August 29-30, 1862

In the summer of 1862 the Confederacy took the offensive

Robert E. Lee's army advanced into Maryland. Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn's armies marched toward Corinth, Mississippi. Braxton Bragg and Kirby Smith moved out of Tennessee and into ...