Fort Jefferson Site / Indian Massacre

(North Side):Fort Jefferson Site

Built in 1780 by George Rogers Clark as part of impressive plan of settlement, conceived by Gov. Patrick Henry of Virginia, later pursued by and named for Gov. Thomas Jefferson. The fort was to protect US claim ...

Catherine Kennedy Home

For the elderly. Grew from Ladies Benevolent Society, founded, 1845. First home, 1879, stood four blocks east.

Marker is on South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles south of Orange Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. John's Lodge

First Masonic lodge in North Carolina. Est. in 1754. Building erected 1804, used until 1825, is one block west.

Marker is on South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles north of Orange Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Jamaica Estates - A Residential Park

IN 1907, real estate developers Ernestus Guilick and Felix Isman purchased 500 acres of land north of the Colonial Village of Jamaica, here they established the Jamaica Estates Corporation. Their purpose was to erect an affluent resort with an English ...

History of San Mateo’s Bridges

In 1923, the cities of San Mateo, Burlingame, and Hillsborough began planning for a bridge to link the San Francisco Bay peninsula cities with East Bay and Central Valley communities. Even after the Dumbarton Bridge opened, in 1927, these municipalities ...

Georgia School for the Deaf

In 1833, a deaf man, John Jacobus Flournoy, of Jackson County, great grandson of Jacob Flournoy, a French Huguenot, urging education for the deaf, interested Governor Wilson Lumpkin and the Georgia Legislature in the educational movement. At first the pupils, ...

Hill's (5th) Tennessee - 23rd Tennessee - 24th Tennessee

Cleburne's Brigade - Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Hill's (5th) Tenn., 23d Tenn., 24th Tenn.,

Cleburne's (2d) Brig., Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

These regiments were engaged here at about

4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862. They afterwards advanced until checked by the fire of field artillery and ...

Alexander Christie House

c. 1805

Handsome Adam style

single house and gabled

carrage house was

built on Lot 36 of

Grand Model house.

It has been rectory of

St. Philip's Church since

1908. A successful Scot,

Alexander Christie built

the house as his residence

and place of business.

Marker is on Church Street, on the ...

Dr. Edward Turner Bale

Edward Bale sailed from England to California in the 1830s and settled in Monterey where he was named surgeon-in chief of the Mexican Army by General Mariano Vallejo. In 1839 he married Vallejo’s niece, Maria Soberanes, and in 1841 was ...

Beale Street Historic District

Has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark.

Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the United States.

U.S. Department of the Interior National ...