The American's Creed / In Grateful Remembrance

(Front side)The American's Creed

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a ...

The Commodore Theatre

Opened on November 14, 1945, the Commodore Theatre was designed by noted Baltimore architect John J. Zink and built and operated by William S. "Bunkie" Wilder, a Portsmouth native, as his flagship theatre. It is named for Commodore James Barron, ...

The McIntosh Family Of McIntosh County

The service of this family to America, since the first of the Clan, with their leader, Captain John McIntosh Mohr, came from the Highlands of Scotland to Georgia, in 1736, forms a brilliant record.

The roll of distinguished members of this ...

The First Alabama Cavalry

U.S. Army

The First Alabama Cavalry U.S. Army

Organized July 12, 1862 - Dedicated October 20, 1865

Huntsville, Alabama

Colonel George E. Spenser, CommanderOrganized by special order No. 100 by Major General Don Carols Buell of U.S. Army. Over 2000 enlisted during the existence ...

The Oldest Brick House in Marysville

Built by Cyprian Lee on land purchased May 10, 1828.

Marker is on Sixth Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John A. Mather

Photographer of oil industry from 1860, lived in this house. His thousands of views form an extraordinary record of an industry that began here. Born, Bury, England, in 1829; died Titusville, 1915.

Marker is on East Main Street, on the left ...

America's First Lady Addressed the People of St. Thomas

(Emancipation Park)

In Commemoration of the visit

to the Virgin Islands

— of —

Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson

Here in Emancipation Park on

June 2, 1965

America's First Lady addressed

the people of St. Thomas

Marker is on Fort Strade, on the left.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Williamsburg in the Civil War

Gateway to Richmond

Williamsburg, once the capital of Virginia, declined after the American Revolution. By 1861, although many colonial structures still lined the streets, the Governor’s Palace and former capitol building lay in ruins. The College of William and Mary had ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Father

Four miles west, Thomas Lincoln, father of the President, was born about 1778. He was taken to Kentucky by his father about 1781. Beside the road here was Lincoln Inn, long kept by a member of the family.

Marker is on ...

Cables from the Rim

Barely visible on the canyon rim are the ruins of a cableworks from the early 1900s. Mormon pioneers in the Zion area needed lumber for construction, but the good timber - ponderosa pine - was out of reach on the ...