Columbus Landing Site

This Salt River Bay site is the only known place where members of Columbus's expedition set foot on what is now U.S. territory, and was the site of the first armed clash between Europeans and American natives. On November 14, ...

Commander John B. Montgomery's Landing Site

On July 9, 1846, in the early morning, in “the days when water came up to Montgomery Street,” Commander John B. Montgomery – for whom Montgomery Street was named – landed near this spot from the U.S. Sloop-of-War “Portsmouth,” to ...

National Historic Landmark- Bering Expedition Landing Site

Here naturalist Georg W. Steller, surgeon aboard Vitus Bering's ST. PETER, made the first attempts at contact between Europeans and Alaskan natives.

His investigations are among the first contributions to the West's knowledge of the natural and human history of the ...

Site of Blanding House

In this square stood the home of Colonel Abram Blanding (1776-1839) for whom this street was named. He was first principal, Columbia Male Academy 1798, a noted lawyer and philanthropist, ably served the state on Board of Public Works 1819-28. ...

British Landing Site

At this historic spot, on July 5, 1779 during the American Revolution Brigadier General Garth, with his First Division landed with 1000 British soldiers and marched up Savin Avenue to the Green.

Harriet C. North

City Historian

Donated by Lions Club of West ...

Professor Lowe Balloon Landing Site

Spot Where Prof. T. S. C. Lowe famed aeronaut landed Apr. 20, 1861 in Union County, S. C.

After Balloon Flight from Cincinnati, Ohio

800 miles in nine hours

Died 1913 at Pasadena Calif.

Marker is on Pea Ridge Highway (South Carolina ...

Landing Site

Near This Site The

Early Settlers Landed

Their Tools Utensils And

Building Materials

For The Common House

August 1639

Marker is at the intersection of Helwig Street and South Broad Street, on the right when traveling north on Helwig Street.

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Blériot's 1909 Landing Site

After making the first Channel flight by aeroplane Louis Blériot landed at this spot on Sunday 25th July 1909.

Marker can be reached from Upper Road near Dover Castle.

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Martian Landing Site

On the evening of October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre presented a dramatization of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds as adapted by Howard Koch. This was to become a landmark in broadcast history, provoking continuing ...

Site of Ferry Landing

From this place in the year 1830

Abraham Lincoln crossed the

Wabash River to Illinois

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Vigo Street (East Side of Bridge) and Wabash River.

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