Civil War Memorial - Livingston County Illinois

In Memory of All

Soldiers and Sailors

of Livingston County

Marker is at the intersection of Madison Street and North Main Street, on the left when traveling west on Madison Street.

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First Mining of Pittsburgh Coal

This State's bituminous coal industry was born about 1760 on Coal Hill, now Mt. Washington. Here the Pittsburgh coal bed was mined to supply Fort Pitt. This was eventually to be judged the most valuable individual mineral deposit in the ...

North Carolina Central University

Founded 1910 by James E. Shepard for Negroes. State liberal arts college, 1925-1969. Now a regional university.

Marker is at the intersection of South Alston Avenue and East Lawson Street, on the left when traveling north on South Alston Avenue.

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R.L. Bryan Co. Warehouse

(Front)

This warehouse was built in 1913 as the schoolbook depository for the R.L. Bryan Company. The company, founded in 1844 by R.L. Bryan (1823-1900) and his brother-in-law James J. McCarter (d. 1872), was originally a bookstore and stationery shop ...

Barberton Military Honor Roll

Dedicated to all Barberton military personnel who participated in World War II (green), or were in action during the Korean (blue), Vietnam (red), Persian Gulf (black), Afghanistan (taupe), Iraq (beige) and any future Wars involving the United States of America. ...

Barratt's Chapel

In 1778 a Methodist Society was organized in this area by Freeborn Garrettson. Desiring a permanent place of worship, the group constructed a brick “preaching house” at his location in 1780. The site was provided by Society member Phillip Barratt, ...

Famous Indian Trail

The Upper Trading Path, one of the historic Indian ways of the Southeast, passed here, leading westward from present Augusta to tribes as far away as the Mississippi River. By various connections the route reached the Muscogees of Western Georgia ...

Barratt's Chapel

In 1778 a Methodist Society was organized in this area by Freeborn Garrettson. Desiring a permanent place of worship, the group constructed a brick “preaching house” at his location in 1780. The site was provided by Society member Phillip Barratt, ...

Ryves Holt House

Oldest Building Standing in State of Delaware

In this house lived

Ryves Holt

Chief Justice

of “Three Lower Counties On Delaware,”

1745 to 1763

Member of Assembly

of “Three Lower Counties On Delaware,”

1734-1737, 1742-1744, 1746-1755,

And Speaker of Assembly

1742-1744, and 1746-1752.

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John Merrick

1859 - 1919

Black business leader. In 1898 he founded what is now N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company. His grave is 85 yds. N.W.

Marker is on Fayetteville Street.

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