Old Military Road

Crown Point to Ticonderoga

Used by troops during early

Colonial Wars and during

the American Revolution.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 9 and Shore Airport Road (County Route 43), on the right when traveling north on U.S. 9.

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Indians Poisoned At Peace Meeting

In May 1623, Capt. William Tucker led English soldiers from Jamestown to meet with Indian leaders here in Pamunkey territory. The Indians were returning English prisoners taken in March 1622 during war leader Opechancanough’s orchestrated attacks on encroaching English settlements ...

The Legend Of Noccalula

White settlers in the hills of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina pushed the Cherokee Indian tribes into North Alabama. The Cherokee in turn encroached upon Creek Territory. There were sporadic battles between the tribes.

Black Creek Falls had ...

Indian Treaty of 1646

Shortly after paramount chief Opechancanough’s 1644 attacks on English settlers in response to the settlers’ encroachment on Indian lands, he was captured and put to death at Jamestown. His successor Necotowance signed a treaty, ratified by the Grand Assembly in ...

Capture of Fort St. Frédéric

This tablet is erected by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York AD 1912 to commemorate the capture of Fort St. Frédéric and the erection of this fortress AD 1759 by the British and Provincial Army ...

J. W. Walker/Central Arizona Light & Power Building

The J. W. Walker/Central Arizona Light & Power Building was built in the spring and summer of 1920 by Phoenix businessman and real estate developer J. W. Walker. Designed by prominent early Phoenix architect L. M. Fitzhugh, the Neo-Classical Revival ...

Governor Landon's Acceptance

From this landing

on July 23, 1936, at 8:31 p.m.,

Governor Alf M. Landon

of Kansas 1933-1937 accepted

the Republican nomination for

President of the United States

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Doolittle Tokyo Raiders

On 18 April 1942, Lt. Colonel James H. Doolittle led a successful bombing mission of military targets in principal cities of Japan along with 79 airmen of the U.S. Army Air Forces flying 16 B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers. They took ...

Korean Conflict / Vietnam Conflict - Floyd County

Floyd County

In honored memory of Floyd County men

who gave their lives for our country

1950 ---- The Korean Conflict ---- 1955

(Row One) - Edward C. Andres • John H. Berryman • William S. Blasdel • Marvin L. Davis • ...

Father Edouard Gerard

Founder First Catholic Church in Phoenix, 1881

The first priest ordained in Arizona, Father Edouard Gerard, attended the Catholic people of Phoenix from Florence, Arizona, where he was the pastor of the Church of the Assumption from 1877 to 1885. For ...