Whitefield House

Begun in 1740 at request of Methodist missionary Reverend George Whitefield as a school for Negroes. Completed by the Moravians in 1743. Served as a communal church-home for 32 newly married German couples brought over in 1744.

Marker is on South ...

General Alfred T.A. Torbert

Born in Georgetown on July 1, 1833, Torbert attended local schools prior to his appointment to the West Point Class of 1855. After the outbreak of the Civil War he rose rapidly in rank, serving as a regimental and brigade ...

Christian Frederick Martin

Founder in 1833 of C.F. Martin & Co. (The Martin Guitar Company), one of the world's oldest musical instrument manufacturers. Its innovations in acoustic guitar design-- including the x-braced flat-top guitar and Dreadnought guitar-- were to exert a formative influence ...

The United States Treasury

Civil War to Civil Rights

Billions for the war, and a bunker for the president

The grand, pillared United States Treasury building that stands before you, its first section designed by Robert Mills in 1836, was the financial command center ...

Site of Bivouac and Banquet for The New Orleans' Greys

Led by Adolphus Sterne, citizens of Nacogdoches helped outfit a volunteer force, the New Orleans' Greys, to fight in the Texas War for Independence. One company of Greys traveled overland to San Antonio by way of Nacogdoches in Nov. 1835. ...

The Ohio River Bridge

Cairo, Illinois - Wickliffe, Kentucky

Completed November 11, 1933

Freed of Tolls November 11, 1948

by

The Cairo Bridge Commission

The Ohio River Bridge was conceived and built in the public interest by the Cairo Bridge Commission with the cooperation of the Federal Emergency Administration ...

Institute Hall / "The Union Is Dissolved!"

Institute Hall

Institute Hall, built here in 1854, stood until 1861. An Italianate building, it was designed by Jones and Lee for the South Carolina Institute, a progressive organization promoting "art, ingenuity, mechanical skill, and industry." The Grand Hall, Charleston's ...

The Beginning of the Third Principal Meridian

The beginning of

the Third

Principal Meridian

is located

in the Ohio River

1,810 feet

directly north

of this point.

In November, 1803,

this was the mouth

of the Ohio River.

At this location,

the Lewis & Clark

Corps of Discovery

encamped for

six days.

Marker is on Washington Avenue (U.S. 60/62), on the right when ...

Home of Adolphus Sterne

A pioneer citizen of Nacogdoches. Born in Cologne, Germany, April 5, 1801. Alcalde at Nacogdoches under the Mexican Government, member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. Died March 27, 1859. Buried in Nacogdoches. Here General Sam Houston made ...

Old Coal Pit Railroad Bed

This railroad bed carried coal from the Deep Run and Springfield Coal Pits, two miles to the northeast of here, during the nineteenth century. The line ran south for about six miles to the now abandoned Kanawha Canal on the ...