Wainwright Trust Building

Built c. 1880, the Wainwright Trust Company was located here until the 1930s. The county's first abstract company, Wainwright and Hall, was forerunner to the Trust Company formed in 1901

Marker is on Conner Street (Indiana Route 32/38), on the left ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules On Overton Park and I-40

1956 - 2006

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of Tennessee could not go through Overton Park to build I-40 based on environmental issues. This east-west interstate now follows I-240 around the north side of Memphis. It ...

Equitable Building

120 Broadway,

Graham, Anderson, Probst and White Architects, 1912-15

Vast, looming and dark by comparison to all previous skyscrapers, on completion the Equitable Building could claim the title of, if not the tallest, then certainly the largest office building in ...

Howard's 4th A.C. Line

These troops [US], having crossed the river at & near Power’s Ferry July 12, 13, 1864, occupied an intrenched line on this ridge facing S.E. until the 18th ~ the rt. resting on the river, the left near Crossroads Church. ...

143rd Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):143rd Penna. Infantry

2nd Brig. 3rd Div. 1st Corps

Held this position July 2nd and 3rd 1863

and assisted in the repulse of the enemy on the 3rd.

Monument erected on 1st days field

near Reynolds Grove where the regiment lost 145 ...

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church / George Ward 1867-1940

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, constituted May 6, 1957, first met at Vestavia Hills City Hall. The church purchased the George Ward estate in 1958. On the property was Ward’s home, “Vestavia,” a replica of a Roman temple ...

Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . a perfect mousetrap.”

- Col. Alexander Scammell,

September 21, 1777

From here are seen nearly all the powerful forces of nature that made this spot on Lake Champlain the Gibraltar of the North ...

A County Older Than the State, Autauga County

Created in 1818 by an act of

Alabama Territorial Legislature.

Autauga Indians lived on creek

from which the county takes its name.

Autaugas were members of the Alibamo tribe.

They sent many warriors to resist

Andrew Jackson's invasion in Creek ...

Norwegian Light Beacon And Fog Bell

The light beacon and fog bell in Big Springs International Park were presented as a gift from Norway in 1973.

The light beacon served as on of the guiding lights to the mariner from 1903 to 1966 being situated ...

Mustering out of Confederate Army

General Johnston's men

paid off and mustered

out near here, May 1-2,

1865, after surrender

near Durham. April 26.

Marker is on North Main Street (U.S. 311) near Liberty Road (North Carolina Route 62).

Courtesy hmdb.org