William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

During his 1775 visit, Bartram noted this area “exhibited a delightful diversified rural scene and promises a happy, fruitful, and salubrious region.”

Marker is on Colonial Station Drive 0 miles south of Columbus Road, on the right when traveling south. ...

U. S. Post Office Department

Ariel Rios Federal Building

Inscription above the frieze, center, west side entablature:

The Post Office Department, in its ceaseless labors, pervades every channel of commerce and every theatre of human enterprise, and while visiting, as it does kindly every fireside, ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Place

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Senator

Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and the proposal for the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue, which President John F. Kennedy proclaimed on May 23, 1962.

He served in ...

Jedidiah Morse

In Memory Of

Jedidiah Morse

The Father of American Geography

Born in Woodstock Windham Co. Conn. Aug. 23 1761

Died in New Haven June 9 1826

In the joy of a triumphant faith

In Christ

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A graduate of Yale College in 1783

Author of the first ...

Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed

Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, MD 1857

1833 – 1900

Physician

Son of John and Vashti Duplex Creed

Graduate of the New Haven Lancasterian School

First African American Graduate of Yale

First African American to earn an MD from an Ivy League Medical School

1st Lieutenant and Surgeon ...

The Grand Army of the Republic

Dedicated

May 7-1941

in memory of

Our Fathers

The Grand Army

of the Republic

1861-65

Marker is on North Pine Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Mt. Olive Lutheran Church

Founded in 1888 by Dr. Conrad B. Gohdes

Last of the Lutheran horseback circuit rides, who was known as a dynamic pastor, theologian, professor of history, philologist and a Christian gentleman. Died 1952 A.D.

Marker is on South Fork Road (County Route ...

Christ Church

Episcopal

The Reverend Lot Jones, while on a missionary tour of Georgia, founded Christ Episcopal Church on March 5, 1825. It was the first congregation organized in Macon. On December 26, 1826, the Georgia General Assembly enacted, “that Christopher B. ...

Boyhood Home of Ray H. Jenkins

1897 - 1980

Known as the “Terror of Tellico Plains,” this eminent Knoxville lawyer gained national fame as Chief Counsel at the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. He defended more than 600 persons on trial for their lives and never lost a ...

Fort Loudoun Massacre

Four miles N.E., at junction Cane Creek, Tellico River, Fort Loudoun’s Garrison, which had surrendered to Attakullakulla and other Cherokee chiefs, was betrayed Aug. 9, 1760 - while returning under safe conduct to Charleston. 25 were killed; 200 enslaved, and ...