Badger State Shoe Factory

Ferdinand Kronenberg, Architect

Albert and Henry Atkins founded the Badger State Shoe Factory in Milwaukee in 1893. They expanded production to Madison in 1900 and in 1910 constructed this building to consolidate manufacturing operations. Significant for its association with turn of ...

Residence of Alice McLellan Birney

(1872 - 1884)

This house was the residence of Alice McClellan Birney, co-founder of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers during the post-war era.

The home was probably built by Miss Mary Ann Nesbit prior to 1869, in which year it ...

Fort Wood

The Statue of Liberty’s pedestal sits atop the remains of Fort Wood, originally one link in a chain of defenses protecting New York City and its vital harbor. The fort was built between 1808 and 1811 in the shape of ...

First Medical College of South Carolina Site

On this site stood the first

building of the Medical

College of South Carolina

founded December 1823 by

The Medical Society of

South Carolina

Marker is on Queen Street near Franklin Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Delaware Indian Burials

Delaware Stockbridge Munsee

Tribe of Indians Band of Mohican Indians

Delaware Nation

Delaware Indian Burials

Uncovered on Ellis and Liberty Islands

Re-interred May 1, 2003

Courtesy hmdb.org

United Spanish War Veterans

Tampa's 203 mm Spanish American War Gun

( North face )

This spot was headquarters

for Roosevelt Rough Riders,

Wheeler Cavalry and the

First Florida Troops 1898

( Northeast face )

This war brought the blue

of the cold bleak ...

American Indian Villages and Captain John Smith

On June 16,1608, Englishman Captain John Smith and fourteen other men from the Jamestown colony entered the Potomac River aboard a two-ton open barge in search of a glistering metal the [natives] told us they had from Patowmeck. They explored ...

Baker University

The First College In Kansas

Erected this building and opened its door for instruction November 22, 1858

Werner Renick Davis, President

The trustees realizing their financial inability to construct a building to meet their dreams of the future requirements of the college, erected ...

Living in the Water

The Mississippi River has provided a habitat for many species of fish and other aquatic creatures for millions of years. Human modifications of the river have had both positive and negative effects on fish populations here. Many types of fish ...

The Propeller Club of the Port of Savannah

Has erected this fountain on the high bluff of the Savannah River as a tribute to maritime Savannah and to the ships, both merchant and naval, that have proudly carried its name to the world around.

Marker can be reached from ...