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 ...

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 ...

The Marlborough Street Chapel

Built in 1872 by William Northup on the former site of Scalloptown. This chapel was the first fully integrated congregation in East Greenwich.

Marker is at the intersection of Marlborough Street and Long Street, on the left when traveling south on ...

All Veterans in War and Peace

This monument is erected in appreciation

and dedicated to the memory of

All Veterans who served

our country in War and Peace

Marker can be reached from Indiana Route 32 west of Indiana Route 47, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Wea Tribe at Terre Haute

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This bountiful area on the Wabash River was occupied early by American Indians. French and later Americans recognized this strategic area called terre haute (high land). At least one Wea village was present in area by late 1700s. Wea ...

St. Francis of Assisi Church

Founded June 17, 1849

Pro-cathedral 1852-54

Present church dedicated March 17, 1860

First parish church in San Francisco. In 1850 the first parochial school in California was established here, and the first ordination to the priesthood was held here in ...

Juana Briones Y Tapia de Miranda

1802 – 1889

Juana Briones, born in Hispanic California, was a preeminent woman of her time. In the 1830s and 1840s she transformed an isolated cove in the then Mexican hamlet of Yerba Buena into her rancho. At the site ...

Abraham Lincoln Lewis Mausoleum

Pioneer Abraham Lincoln Lewis (1865-1947) and others founded Florida’s oldest African-American insurance company, Afro-American Life in 1901, which spread throughout the South as far as Texas. In 1926, A.L. Lewis opened Lincoln Golf and Country Club where the famous visited, ...

Roanoke County / Franklin County

Roanoke County

Area 305 Square Miles

Formed in 1838 from Botetourt and Montgomery, and probably named for Roanoke River. General Andrew Lewis lived here. The city of Roanoke is known as the Gate City of the South.

Franklin County

Area 697 Square Miles

Formed in ...