Andrew Johnson National Cemetery

Andrew Johnson chose to be buried atop this hill, then known as “Signal Hill,” which he owned. His family members continued to be buried here in the family plot until his great-granddaughter’s interment in 1992. The cemetery became part of ...

Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport

This historic aviation facility is named in honor of longtime medical pathologist, Jackson County coroner, judge, and Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Charles B. Wheeler. In appreciation of his dedication to air service expansion for the people of the ...

Whitson’s Fort

About 2 miles northeast, south of the mouth of Cosby’s Creek, William Whitson, Jr., established a fort on the east bank of Pigeon River in 1783. It was an important frontier outpost, since there was a ford there, and the ...

Chandlerville

Founded 1832 by Dr. Charles Chandler of Rhode Island.

Marker is at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue (County Road 12) and Bluff Street, on the left when traveling north on Lincoln Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Davy Crockett’s Birthplace

On this spot

Davy Crockett

was born

Aug. 17, 1786

Marker is on Musket Lane, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Crockett

Davy Crockett

Pioneer

Patriot

Soldier

Trapper

Explorer

State Legislator

Congressman

Martyred at

the Alamo

1786 – 1836

[ Back of Monument : ]Original monument placed by Davy Crockett ...

Living in Takoma Park

Humans first crossed the Bering Strait from Asia between 25,000-14,000 years ago. People may have started living in the Maryland area very soon after the crossing. This was during the Pleistocene Epoch when giant mammals such as saber-toothed cats, mammoths ...

Bummer and Lazarus

Bummer and Lazarus were two stray dogs who roamed this part of San Francisco in the 1860s. Their devotion to each other endeared them to the citizenry, and the newspapers reported their joint adventures, whether sealing a bone from another ...

Rudi Gernreich

Fashion Walk of Fame

Bold, original, and controversial, Gernreich was America’s first fashion futurist, a social commentator who worked in the medium of clothes. Best known for his body-baring creations such as the no-bra bra and topless bathing suit, he ...

1812 - - Fort Harrison - - 1912

This stone marks the site, and commemorates the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Heroic Defense, of Fort Harrison by a small body of United States Soldiers, assisted by the settlers against the Indians.

September 4, 1812

The Fort was built by ...