Donald Grady Davidson (1893~1966) John Crowe Ransom (1888~1974)

Giles County natives Donald G. Davidson and John C. Ransom were influential personages in American literature. Professors at Vanderbilt University, they helped found The Fugitive (1922~25), a magazine which launched the "Southern literary renaissance." They contributed to the essential Agrarian ...

Henrico County

Virginia’s Second Settlement

In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale founded the Citie of Henricus, the second settlement in the Colony of Virginia which later became Henrico County. Henrico, named for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales and son of King James I, became ...

Mount Sinai Baptist Church

In 1868, the formerly enslaved Rev. Israel Cross founded Mount Sinai Baptist Church in a log building here on Benjamin Howell's land. He allegedly never closed a sermon without saying, "Buy some land, build a home, and get some education." ...

First Rural Electric Cooperative

On November 25, 1935, 17 farmers from Clay and Union counties held an historic meeting at the Manning/O'Connor store in Burbank, three miles south of this spot. Their purpose was to form a consumer-owned corporation which would allow the rural ...

St. Thaddeus Church

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This Episcopal Church (cornerstone laid Sept. 5, 1842) was consecrated Aug. 9, 1843. It is the city’s oldest church structure, having retained its Greek revival style through subsequent remodeling. Church purchased bell in 1853, Cornish Memorial Chapel completed in 1888, ...

"Cav. Area"

This Cav. area was the home of several U.S. Calvary Regiments.

Marker is at the intersection of Mapes Road and 6th Armored Cavalry Road, on the left when traveling west on Mapes Road.

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Bruyer Church

August Bruyer, his wife, Josephine (Simon) and their sons, John and Julius, were born in France, coming to America about the middle of the nineteenth century. By 1858, they had settled in Fairview Township, 4 miles east of what was ...

New Cumberland

Near New Cumberland, George Chapman settled, about 1783, and built an Indian fort. Here are graves of the Chapmans, Gregorys, Graftons, and other pioneer families. Pughtown, settled about 1810, was the first county seat.

Marker is on Ridge Avenue (West Virginia ...

To Our Glorious Dead

1914 – 1919

“They died the noblest death a man may die, fighting for god, and right and liberty, and such a death is immortality.”

Korea

1950 – 1953

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In Recognition of the Services of the Canadian Forces and Canadian Citizens

In The ...

Pulaski Courthouse Square Historic District

This District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 by United States Department of Interior. The Square was laid out in 1811 by the original County Commissioners. Buildings date from 1867 and reflect the Victorian Style ...