"Three Notch Road"

A law of 1704 provides that "three notches of equal distance marked on the trees indicated"

A ROAD LEADING TO A FERRY

"two notches with another notch a distance above the other two"

A ROAD LEADING TO A COURTHOUSE

"a slip cut down the ...

M.E. Thompson and the Purchase of Jekyll Island

Melvin E. Thompson, Acting Governor, 1947-1949, was born in Millen, Jenkins County, Georgia, in 1903. After a career as educator and public servant, Thompson was elected Lieutenant Governor for the term beginning January, 1947. Following the death of Governor-Elect Eugene ...

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Near this site the Sauk chieftain Black Hawk and his band were overtaken by Wisconsin and Illinois troops on July 21, 1832

Marker is on State Highway 78 0.4 miles south of County Road Y, on the left when traveling south. ...

Vermillion County Indiana - - War Memorial

Dedicated to all veterans during war and peace time.

[Lower - Middle: panel]:

Nothing hurts like being forgotten. Nothing helps like being remembered. For those who fight for it, life has a special flavor the protected never know.

[Left side panel]:

Colonial Wars

Genesis

Revolutionary ...

James Bridger Gravesite

picture of Jim Bridger

James Bridger

1804 · 1881

Celebrated as a hunter, trapper, fur trader, and guide. Discovered Great Salt Lake 1824, the South Pass 1827. Visited Yellowstone Lake and Geysers 1830. Founded Ft. Bridger 1843. Opened Overland Route ...

Efforts of a Virginia Tradesman 1670s

The early English settlers came to Virginia looking for gold, silver, and precious gems, but never found them. Some of the artifacts they left behind, however, are highly valuable to the archaeologists who excavated Jamestown centuries later.

One such artifact lay ...

Water and Well

“ … not at all replenished with springs of fresh water … their wells brackish, ill-scented … and not grateful to the stomach.” If a well at Jamestown was sunk to the right depth, it could yield “sweet water.” Too ...

Fences and Livestock

Jamestown had a large number of four-footed and feathered residents. A chronicler wrote of “two hundred … cattle, as many goats, infinite hogs in herds all over the woods.” The government required fences to keep the free-roaming livestock out of ...

Duleek 1916 - 1981 Hunger Strike Monument

and Memorial Garden

The Memorial Garden

is named after

Vol. Joe Coombes, Platin Road.

Vol. Noel Gallagher, Mountfield, Co. Tyrone

Vol. Harry McCormick, Prioryland, Duleek

and is in memory of

all those who dedicated their lives

to and for the cause of Irish freedom.

This monument was unveiled by

Paddy ...

Eddie Taylor - - "Mayor of 7th and Wabash"

On these side walks, Eddie Taylor - Mayor of 7th and Wabash - peddled newspapers from 1916 to 1957, advancing freedom of the press one American at a time.

May those who walk these same Terre Haute streets value that freedom ...