Daniel Webster Memorial

Danial Webster

"Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable."

Expounder and Defender of the Constitution

Born at Salisbury, N.H., Jan 18, 1772

Died at Marshfield, Mass., Oct 24, 1852

"Our Country, Our Whole Country,

and nothing but Our Country!"

(Given by Stilson Hutchins, a ...

London South African War Memorial

1899 - 1902

“In Honour of the Men from the London District who Fought for the Empire in South Africa, and in Memory of Those Who Fell.”

1899 - 1902

[First Panel]

Pte. D. L. Moore, R.C.R.- Feb 14th, 1900

Pte. J. A. Donegan, 26th ...

Cemetery Lodge

This 1877 house served as office and quarters for the cemetery keeper until 1931. The design of the building is Second Empire (French), from the reign of Napoleon III (1852-1870). This architectural style is characterized by gables and a roof ...

The Short Lived Canal

On March 2, 1827, Congress provided a land grant to encourage Indiana to build the Wabash & Erie Canal. The original plan was to link the navigable water of the Maumee with the Wabash through the seven mile portage at ...

World War II Bridge Test Site

In January 1943 the Yuma Test Branch of the Engineer Board of the Corps of Engineers commenced test operations on fixed and floating bridges at Imperial Dam. Tests were conducted in both sluiceways as well as above and below the ...

Amelia County / Chesterfield County

(Obverse)

Amelia County

Area 371 Square Miles

Formed in 1734 from Prince George and Brunswick, and named for Princess Amelia, daughter of King George II. William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia 1827-30, lived in this county.

(Reverse)

Chesterfield County

Area ...

Site of Mission San Pedro

Y San Pablo De Bicuner

To protect the Anza Trail where it forded the Colorado River, the Spanish founded a pueblo and mission nearby on January 7, 1781. Threatened with the loss of their land, the Quechans (Yumas) attacked this strategic ...

Margaret Douglass

"I told the judge to do his duty and put me in prison at once, if he chose, for I would ask no favors at the hands of any man."

Margaret Douglass

Margaret Douglass, a white woman from Charleston, South Carolina, moved ...

Early Roads / One of the South's First Railroads 1832

Side A

Tennessee Street along the north side of the square was originally part of Gaines’ Trace, a horse path laid out in 1807 under the direction of Capt. Edmund Pendleton Gaines of the U. S. Army. From Melton’s Bluff on ...

50th Anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Normandy

1944 - 1994

This plaque is placed here to commemorate

the 50th anniversary of the Allied Invasion

of Normandy on D Day, 6th June 1944.

It is dedicated to the soldiers of the

First Hussars, to those who took part in the

assault, to those who ...