Underground Atlanta Historic District

After the devastation of Atlanta during the Civil War, the city began to rebuild itself around the railroad tracks that brought goods and people to the city. However, by the 1920s, Atlanta had a growing traffic problem. A series of ...

National Historic Landmark- Chief Joseph Battleground of Bears Paw

Site of the battle in which Chief Joseph and more than 400 Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the United States Army (1877). The Bear Paw surrender signaled the close of the Nez Perces' existence as an "independent Indian people." Henceforth, ...

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

Excavations for new construction in lower Manhattan in the early 1990s revealed the presence of burials dating as early as 1712.

Throughout the 18th century, the city's free and enslaved Africans buried their dead ...

Historic Underground Railroad

At this crossroads stood the home of the Edward Hesdra Family. This home is believed to have been a link in the underground slave railway, c1855.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (New York Route 59) and South ...

Historic Ground

This modern tv station, WAGA-TV stands in land lot 57 of the 18th District of the original Henry, now DeKalb County, near the south fork of Peachtree Creek, was erected in 1966.

In July, 1864 the present Briarcliff Road was the ...

Historic Ground --1864

In an area bound by Memorial Dr., Clifton, Glenwood & Moreland, was where the major part of the Battle of Atlanta was fought, July 22d.

In terms of present landmarks, the battle began at Memorial Dr. & Clifton where Hardee's right ...

Mount Pleasant Historic Underground Railroad District

Historic Underground Railroad Site

By 1816, Mount Pleasant had earned a reputation among fugitive slaves as a town where they would be welcomed in their quest for freedom. The Quakers who lived in the village helped Mount Pleasant become a center ...

Historic Underground Railroad

In the mid 1800’s, waterways

such as the Nyack Brook, which

flows here, served as important

land-marks for African American

slaves escaping North along

the ‘Underground Railroad’

Joseph Mitolf Family

‘Lest we forget’

Marker is on Main Street west of N Mill Street, on the right when ...

Lancaster Methodist Camp Ground Historic District

Established 1872

was placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the National Park Service,

U.S. Dept. of the Interior,

Sept. 10, 1987 in recognition of its

historical and architectural significance.

Originated at Logan 1872;

moved to Carroll 1874;

located at Lancaster 1878.

Dedicated August 14, 1988

Marker is on ...

Historic Ground

Atlanta’s first City Hall stood here 1853-1883. Used jointly by Fulton county courts.

During Atlanta’s occupation -- Sept. to Nov. 1864 -- the 2nd Mass. Regiment, [US] constituting the Provost Guard of Sherman’s army, camped in a park on this ...