Mainbernheimer Gate

Mainbernheimer Tor

[Marker text in German:]

Erste Erwähnung 1422.

Wehrhafte Doppeltoranlage

mit Torwächterhaus,

Vorwerk und Haupttor.

[Marker text translated into English, more or less:]

First mentioned in 1422.

Fortified double-gate structure with gatekeeper's house, forward works, and main gate.

Marker is at the intersection of Mainbernheimerstrasse and Am Stadtgraben ...

Henry County / North Carolina

Henry CountyLocated in the foothills of southern Virginia, Henry County is named for Patrick Henry (1736-1799), Revolutionary leader and governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Henry lived in the county from 1779 to 1784. The General Assembly formed the county ...

William Bryd’s Camp

Near here, on Matrimony Creek, William Bryd pitched his camp, November, 1728, while determining the Virginia-North Carolina boundary line.

Marker is on US 220, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Rocky Ridge Farm

Home of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Front

Laura Ingalls Wilder, one of America's best known authors, was born in 1867 near Pepin, Wisconsin. Her "Little House" books were written here on Rocky Ridge Farm, her home for over sixty years.

On July 17, 1894, ...

The Hearthstone

Over 100 Years of Victorian Charm

The Hearthstone building was established in 1883. The original structure was build and owned by the Kaiser family, who ran a market on Lincoln St., when Breckenridge existed as a thriving mining community. The Hearthstone ...

Great Auto Race

1908 - Centennial - 2008

From New York to Paris.

Racers arrived in Canastota Feb. 14th staying overnight.

The U.S. team won the race.

Marker is at the intersection of South Peterboro Street and Railroad Street, on the left when ...

To Commemorate the Site of the First Permanent Capitol of Georgia

Built in 1795, and before whose door the Yazoo Fraud papers were burned with fire drawn from heaven, February 15, 1796.

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 1) 0 miles east of Green Street, on the right when traveling ...

Civil War in Lynchburg

Prisoner-of-War Camp

This was the site of a Confederate training camp and Union prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. Before Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, the population of Lynchburg doubled

with the influx of soldiers from

other parts of the ...

On This Site Stood Metro Clothes

Owned and managed by Joseph Feldstein, Metro Clothes was established in 1932 and originally located across the street. The business relocated to this site after the 1936 flood. Metro Clothes was a leading outfitter in men’s and boys’ clothing and ...

Dundee Memorial Park Streetcar Wall

Dundee, Omaha's first suburb, was connected to downtown by the streetcar. Dundee was literally the end-of-the-line. The streetcars reversed their course just west of this site. In 1891, a steam driven "trolley" and then a horse-drawn car brought people free ...