British Attack at Breach Inlet / Battery Marshall

British Attack at Breach InletIn 1776, a force of British Army regulars attempted to cross Breach Inlet in an effort to capture Fort Sullivan (Fort Moultrie). Their advance was thwarted and many British lives lost when their boats were caught ...

Home of Thomas R. Marshall

Born in North Manchester, March 14, 1854, he practiced law in Columbia City until his election as Governor of Indiana (1909–1913). Served two terms as Vice-President (1913–1921). Died June 1, 1925, and was buried in Indianapolis.

Marker is on West Jefferson ...

George C. Marshall

V.M.I. Class of 1901

General of the Army George Catlett Marshall was born December 31, 1880, at Uniontown, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Virginia Military Institute in 1901 as First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, he spent fifty years ...

John Marshall's Farm

Near this location stood Chickahominy Farm, the country residence of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. Spending weekends at the farm with his wife, Marshall wrote that farming provided many hours of "laborious relaxation." Born in 1775, Marshall fought in the ...

James W. Marshall

1810 - 1885

Erected by the State of California

in memory of

James W. Marshall

1810 - 1885

Whose discovery of gold

January 24, 1848

in the tailrace of Sutter’s Mill at Coloma

started the great rush of Argonauts.

Marker can be reached from Marshall Park Way (State Highway ...

Pink Anderson / The Marshall Tucker Band

Pink Anderson

1900-1974

Pink Anderson was a seminal Piedmont bluesman. He lived most of his life in Spartanburg, performing locally and regionally, and recording three albums in the city for Bluesville Records during the 1960s.

Anderson is also known as one of the ...

U.S. Marshall Robert Forsyth

( 1754-1794 )

Robert Forsyth was the first law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. Captain of Light Dragoons in Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee's cavalry during the Revolutionary War, Forsyth had been appointed the first marshal for the District ...

Formation of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

On September 8, 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower formally dedicated the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as a new field installation of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) organization that had resulted from the Army transfer ...