The Unknown Embattled Defenders of Fort Harrison

Here

unknown but not forgotten

lie the Embattled Defenders

of

Fort Harrison

September 3, - 5, 1812

Marker is on McCullough Avenue (becomes 4th Street) north of Fort Harrison Road.

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Andrew Johnson National Cemetery

Andrew Johnson chose to be buried atop this hill, then known as “Signal Hill,” which he owned. His family members continued to be buried here in the family plot until his great-granddaughter’s interment in 1992. The cemetery became part of ...

Iowa State Monument

[Text on the Upper Front (South) Side of Monument]:

Iowa dedicates this monument

In honor of her sons

Who on this and other fields

Proved themselves worthy sons

of Patriotic Sires

[Text on the Lower Front (South) Side of Monument]:

You have made it a high privilege

to ...

Wea Tribe at Terre Haute

[Side One]

This bountiful area on the Wabash River was occupied early by American Indians. French and later Americans recognized this strategic area called terre haute (high land). At least one Wea village was present in area by late 1700s. Wea ...

Mainbernheimer Gate

Mainbernheimer Tor

[Marker text in German:]

Erste Erwähnung 1422.

Wehrhafte Doppeltoranlage

mit Torwächterhaus,

Vorwerk und Haupttor.

[Marker text translated into English, more or less:]

First mentioned in 1422.

Fortified double-gate structure with gatekeeper's house, forward works, and main gate.

Marker is at the intersection of Mainbernheimerstrasse and Am Stadtgraben ...

Great Auto Race

1908 - Centennial - 2008

From New York to Paris.

Racers arrived in Canastota Feb. 14th staying overnight.

The U.S. team won the race.

Marker is at the intersection of South Peterboro Street and Railroad Street, on the left when ...

To Commemorate the Site of the First Permanent Capitol of Georgia

Built in 1795, and before whose door the Yazoo Fraud papers were burned with fire drawn from heaven, February 15, 1796.

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 1) 0 miles east of Green Street, on the right when traveling ...

Catawba Sanatorium

This institution, one mile northeast, stands on the site of the old Roanoke Red Sulpher Springs, which by 1859 was a noted summer resort. The Sanatorium was established by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1908 for the treatment of ...

John W. Galbreath

1897 - 1988

The far-reaching enterprises of John W. Galbreath were sometimes reflected in the names of his horses. Epsom Derby winner Roberto was named for the great baseball player Roberto Clemente, whose team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, was then owned by ...

The Union Fifth Corps at Dawkins Branch

On the morning of August 29, 1862, the Union Fifth Corps, nearly 10,000 troops under Major General Fitz John Porter, advanced from Manassas Junction along this road under orders from Major General John Pope to march towards Gainesville and cut ...