Chief Ladiga Trail - Jacksonville

The Chief Ladiga Trail was named for a Creek Indian leader who signed the Cusseta Treaty in 1832. Under the terms of that agreement, the Creeks gave up claim to their remaining lands in northeast Alabama. Because he had signed ...

William Darlington

Physician, congressman, began a service of 33 years as president of Bank of Chester County, in this building, 1830. Especially noted for his many contributions to the science and study of botany in the early 1800's. He died in 1863.

Coast Guard Aviation Monument

In Honor of the Men Who Established Coast Guard Aviation

In May of 1925 On

Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor

Home of the First Continuously Operating Coast Guard Air Station

Growth in Operations and Aircraft Size Forced a Move

To Salem Massachussetts in 1935 ...

The Amazing Balanced Rock

Around 300 million years ago, the Ancestral Rockies once stood here. Over time, the forces of wind and water eroded the magnificent peaks into swift streams full of sediments. These sediments were eventually pressed and cemented into solid rock. The ...

Ten Pound Island Lighthouse

Ten Pound Island Lighthouse

Before you stretches Ten Pound Island. In 1821 a lighthouse was built on the island to safely direct sailing ships into Gloucester Harbor. Some of America's greatest works of art were painted by Winslow Homer while staying ...

Morgan's Troops Camped Here

Gen. John Morgan’s

Troops going East

camped here Saturday

night, July 11, 1863

Marker is at the intersection of Indiana Route 7 and West Main Street, on the left when traveling north on State Route 7.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Virginia and Monitor

Across Hampton Roads from this point the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimac) and the U.S.S. Monitor fought, March 9, 1862. This was the first combat between iron-clad vessels in the history of the world. After a severe engagement in which each vessel ...

Pennington Footbridge

Memorial to Elias Pennington, pioneer rancher, farmer, miner, freighter and lumberman. In 1857, he came from Texas with his twelve children settling in various locations around southern Arizona for several years. Near this site, in 1863, Pennington set up a ...

Frederick T. Kemper

1816 - 1881

Frederick Thomas Kemper, pioneering Missouri educator and founder of Kemper Military School in Boonville, was born at Madison Courthouse, Virginia. After graduating from Marion College in Palmyra, Missouri, he came to Boonville in 1844 and opened his first ...

Thomas Kennedy

(1776-1832)

The Maryland Constitution in 1818 maintained religious test requirements that effectively prohibited Jews from being elected to state office. Kennedy, a Scottish Presbyterian immigrant, was elected to the House of Delegates in 1817 from Washington County. Kennedy believed religious discrimination ...