43rd Bombardment Group

5th Air Force WWII

“Ken's Men”

Dedicated Oct. 7, 1988

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge Highway Bridge

Constructed - 1915 & Rededicated - 2002

In 1913 after strong campaigning from the citizens of Yuma, Representative Carl Hayden secured funding for this bridge. When completed, it was the only highway bridge across the Colorado River for 1,200 miles. ...

Birthplace of Mary McLeod Bethune

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This noted humanitarian and educator was born five miles north of Mayesville, S.C., on July 10, 1875. She was one of the first pupils of the Mayesville Mission School, located fifty yards west of this marker, where she later ...

Gibraltar Island

This 6.5 acre island, named for the resemblance of its dolomite ledges to the Rock of Gibraltar, was the likely observation site for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's naval forces during the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. Stone Laboratory, ...

The Story of the "Bell" at Dorchester Academy

Dorchester Academy

The Midway Congregational Church bell played a very important role in the lives of Dorchester Academy students. It kept time by ringing with an echo that could be heard seven to ten miles away. The bell rang every day ...

Tradesmen on Governor Harvey’s Lot 1630s

Despite the success of tobacco, the crown instructed Virginia’s governors to diversify and encourage trades in the colony. Governor Sir John Harvey supported this endeavor. During the 1630s, he employed a variety of tradesmen on this property including: potters; apothecaries; ...

Powell of the Colorado

On August 30, 1869, Major John Wesley Powell landed at the mouth of the Virgin River, about 12 miles south of here, thus ending the first boat expedition through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.

The expedition left Green River ...

Thorogood Plantation / Mount Holly Plantation

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Thorogood Plantation

In 1682 the Lords Proprietors granted 3,000 acres here, on a branch of the Back River, to Joseph Thorogood (d. 1684). Though Thorogood only owned the plantation two years and his widow Jane sold it after ...

Midway Congregational Church 1872 - Present

Dorchester Academy

The Old Midway Congregational Church, two

miles east on U.S. Highway 17, was formed

by whites (Puritans & Congregationalists )

when they settled in Liberty County. They

were driven to church by their black slaves

who were allowed to sit in the ...

St. Vincent de Paul Church, 1835

The Parish of St. Vincent de Paul is the direct successor of the many and often interrupted endeavors in the Niagara area since 1626. At first concerned with native peoples, later French and then English-speaking priests came as chaplains for ...