Riverbank Debate

[ Photo Text - Upper Section ]

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, young attorneys who had faced each other earlier in Livingston County’s first court case, later the same day debated political issues at this very site. At the Old Settlers’ ...

125 Tradd Street

Captain John Morrison House

This Adam style Single House was constructed circa 1805 by Captain John W. Morrison on the site of the circa 1790 garden of Robert Squibb, who brought many exotic plants to Charleston, exported rare species from Charleston ...

Norfolk Soldiers Monument

[ west face ]

To The Memory Of The

Soldiers From This Town

Who Died For Their Country

In The War Of The Rebellion

Adjt. Samuel C. Barnum Died June 15, 1864.

Lieut. Hiram D. Gaylord Nov. 18, 1863

Corp. Theodore S. Bates Sept. 17, 1862.

Corp. ...

The Portage Path Connected Lake Erie with the Ohio River

The First Americans

You are standing at the North Terminus of the renewed Portage Path, which formed the vital link in the shortest and best water route between the great lake to the north and the rivers flowing south. The trail ...

The Norfolk Academy

Built 1840 for

The Norfolk Academy

later used as the Town Hall & Jail

Since 1960

The Norfolk Historical

Museum

Marker is at the intersection of Village Green and Greenwoods Road East (U.S. 44), on the right when traveling north on Village Green.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Norfolk World War I Monument

[ south plaque ]

1917 The World War 1918

In honor of those who gave and those

who offered their lives for liberty

the people of Norfolk have built

this monument and crowned it with

The Liberty Bell

in the faith that it will ring the

knell of ...

Chesterfield Court House

Soldiers and Refugees

Late on the morning of Monday, April 3, 1865, part of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia briefly halted here at the Chesterfield County seat. The day before, a series of Federal attacks had broken ...

Madera to Yosemite Stage Route

Est 1879

Switching from the iron horse to the horse drawn stage after a night at Madera's Yosemite Hotel, which still stands across the street from this monument, at 6 A. M. the tourists would load up in open stages to ...

The Boulevard

[City of Charleston Motto Emblem: Aedes Mores Juraque Curat]

(She Guards Her Buildings, Customs, and Laws)

To Commemorate

The reclamation of 47 acres of mud flats, marsh and water, bounded on the north by Tradd Street and on the ...

Camden Friends Meeting

Burial Place of John Hunn This house of worship, built in 1805, was first a Preparative Meeting under the care of Motherkiln (Murderkill) Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In 1830, Camden Monthly Meeting was formed by ...