Church Street Historic District

This block of Church Street extending south from Milwaukee Avenue was platted as Wauwatosa’s first residential street in 1853. The Congregational Church built that year was the earliest religious structure in the community then known as Harts Mills.

In 1989 ...

Historic Old Mill District

A Walking Tour of Fredericksburg’s Historic Old Mill District

Fredericksburg’s Historic Old Mill District dates its origins to the earliest settlers along the Rappahannock River. This walking tour takes you through what can be considered the city’s first industrial park as ...

Historic Old Mill District

A Walking Tour of Fredericksburg’s Historic Old Mill District

Fredericksburg’s Historic Old Mill District dates its origins to the earliest settlers along the Rappahannock River. This walking tour takes you through what can be considered the city’s first industrial park as ...

Port Republic Road Historic District

This is Waynesboro's oldest intact neighborhood. It coalesced as a community about 1870, just after the Civil War, when formerly enslaved individuals moved here to work in nearby industries and on railroads. The African American residents constructed most of the ...

Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District

Extending from the Orange County line on the north to the outskirts of Charlottesville with the Southwest Mountains forming its spine, this historic district encompasses more than 31,000 acres and contains some of the Piedmont’s most pristine and scenic countryside. ...

The Ajo Mining District

Americans first worked the copper deposits at Ajo in 1854, one year after the Gadsden Purchase. These early American miners found abandoned workings and crude mining tools as mute evidence of earlier mining in the district.

During the next half century ...

District Five War Memorial

[East Base]:

This memorial is dedicated to the men and women of this area who have served in the armed forces of the United States and to those who gave their life in Performance of the service.

Erected by the people of ...

Catoctin Rural Historic District

The surrounding area of about 25,000 acres has been a cohesive agricultural community since the mid-1700s, when it was settled largely by former Tidewater Virginia planters attracted by its streams and fertile soils. Bordered by Catoctin Mountain (west) and the ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Danville, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and North Logan Ave, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street. ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Christian / Sangamon Counties

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District

1847 - 1859

Marker is on Consolidated Road (County Road E 2300N) west of County Route 29, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org