Jakes/Patterson Bus Boycott

On May 26, 1956, Florida A&M University students, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson boarded a Tallahassee city bus and sat in the only seats available -- next to a white female passenger in the front of the bus. The bus ...

Jakes-Patterson Monument

On May 26, 1956, Florida A&M University students Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson were arrested in Tallahassee because they refused to give up their bus seats next to a white passenger. The students were harassed and a cross was burned ...

Patterson Heights Incline

Operated between January 19, 1896 and 1927. One of the shortest and most unusual trolley car lines in the United States. The line operated with one car built by J.G. Brill of Philadelphia. A dummy car counterbalanced by scrap metal ...

Patterson Heights

(Keystone Marker)

Darlington- 8

Patterson Heights

Named For

James Patterson

Early Settler

Founded

1895

Marker is at the intersection of Darlington Road and 8th Street, on the right when traveling north on Darlington Road.

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Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D. / Patterson Hospital

Side 1:

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D.

April 16, 1867 – Dec.31, 1930

Dr. Fred Patterson was born in Stewart Co., Ga., attended South Georgia Agriculture College, Cuthbert, graduated Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1890. He practiced in Lumpkin four years before moving to ...

Wright-Patterson AFB

1927

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...

-John Gillespie Magee

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has led the nation throughout the evolution of U.S. military air superiority. When the original Wright Field was ...

Patterson-McInnis Train

This locomotive, known locally as "Three Spot", often pulled 30 to 40 cars as it transported logs from area woodlands to the Patterson-McInnis Sawmill. Originally a wood burning engine thought to be built around 1915, it was converted to ...

Ardenwood Historic Farm / George Washington Patterson Ranch

This Property

The

George Washington

Patterson Ranch

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

November 29, 1985

Marker can be reached from Ardenwood Boulevard near California Highway 84.

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Mary Kate Patterson Davis Hill Kyle

(1844-1931)

Heroine of the South, worked with Coleman's Scouts and Sam Davis to spy in the LaVergne-Nolensville-Nashville area. When a teenager, she smuggled vital information and supplies through Union lines. Mrs. Kyle was buried in the Confederate Circle in Mt. Olivet ...

Patterson & Western Railroad

The narrow gauge railroad winding some 25 miles from Patterson through Del Puerto Canyon operated from Sept. 20, 1916 to August 14, 1920. During World War I, the railroad brought the much needed minerals of magnesite, manganese chrome and quicksilver ...