The Alamo Theatre

Mississippi Blues Trail Marker

The Alamo Theatre opened at this location in 1949. Prior to that the Alamo occupied two other spots in the area. The theatre showed movies, hosted music competitions, and presented blues and jazz concerts by artists such ...

In Memory of the Unknown Soldiers

In memory of the Unknown Soldiers buried at Brick Meetinghouse while it was used as a hospital in 1778.

Marker can be reached from Brick Meeting House Road 0.2 miles west of Maryland Route 272.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Queen Village / The New Market and Head House

QUEEN VILLAGE. Philadelphia’s first neighborhood.

Cross the street to the south side of Lombard and you’ve entered Queen

Village, the oldest neighborhood in Philadelphia and one of the

oldest “urban villages” in the country.

This community is known

for ...

The Coloma Road

Alder Springs, South of this point, marks the Old Coloma Road, running between Sutter’s Fort and Culluh-mah (Coloma). Established in 1847, this road was used by James W. Marshall in January 1848 to bring the first gold from Sutter’s Mill ...

The Early Mountain Brook Village Area

Once an Indian hunting ground, this land was opened for settlement after the War of 1812. The first settlers, who fought in that war under Andrew Jackson, came here in the early 1820’s after the U.S. acquired the land in ...

Society Hill / The New Market and Head House

SOCIETY HILL. Where the past meets the present.

You are now walking down streets laid out over three centuries ago. In the 18th century you might have crossed paths with Benjamin Franklin, George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. President James ...

The Mahoning Dispatch Building

For ninety-one years, The Mahoning Dispatch served Canfield and the surrounding communities, earning the distinction of being the oldest continuously published newspaper owned by a single family in Mahoning County. The first edition of the weekly journal was published May ...

Mother of the Wright Brothers

Six miles north, at Hillsboro, was born in 1831 Susan Koerner, mother of Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the airplane.

Marker is on E Main Street (Business Virginia Route 7) 0.1 miles east of Pickwick Drive, on the right when ...

Northern Most Known Bastion of Spanish Florida

Less than three decades after Columbus had discovered America, on Aug. 18, 1521 ( St. Helena's Day ), Spanish seafarers from Santo Domingo sighted this magnificent harbor, named its Eastern headland the Punta de Santa Elena, from which the area ...

The Eagle and Bowman Hotels

Two of Jackson’s historic hotels once stood at this site. The Eagle Hotel, originally a tavern, was built in 1823. Andrew Jackson was a guest here in 1840.Alexander McClung, editor and Mexican War hero, committed suicide at the hotel in ...