Birthplace of Andrew Jackson

Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born.

Marker is at the intersection ...

The Andrews Raiders at Kingston

Apr. 12, 1862. James J. Andrews with 18 Ohio soldiers [US] in disguise, & 1 civilian, having seized the locomotive "GENERAL" at Big Shanty (KENNESAW) intending to wreck the State R.R., were forced to side track here & wait for ...

Andrew Jackson

Studied law under

Spruce Macay, 1784 – 85,

at an office which

stood 1 bl. W. Admitted

to the bar in Rowan

County, Nov. 6, 1787.

Marker is at the intersection of S Main Street and W Fisher Street, on the left when traveling north on ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson Monument

[Carving Side]

"I was born in So Carolina, as I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about one mile from the Carolina Road X of the Waxhaw Creek" Andrew Jackson to J.H. Witherspoon, August 11, 1824.

Jackson said ...

Christopher C. Andrews, Conservation Pioneer

In the 1880's, when General Christopher C. Andrews began urging the state to consider the future of its forested lands, most Minnesotans could not believe that there might ever be a shortage of timber. But by the time of his ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson

Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born.

Marker is at the ...

Andrew Zirkle Mill

Built in the 1750s by the Zirkel brothers and owned by the Revolutionary War patriot Andrew Zirkle, the mill operated for 180 years. Flour milled here went to Boston when the harbor was blockaded after the Boston Tea Party and ...

Andrew J. Downing

1815-1852

Originator of Hudson River picturesque landscapes and architecture. Partners Vaux and Wither continued building in Romantic style as in this ‘Villa’.

Marker is at the intersection of Montgomery Street and Clinton Street, on the right when traveling north on Montgomery Street. ...

The Andrews Raid

About 6 A.M., April 12, 1862, a Federal spy & contraband merchant, James J. Andrews, of Ky., together with 18 soldiers & one civilian of Ohio, seized the locomotive "General", & three box cars while the train-crew & passengers were ...

Andrew Ellicott

(1754 - 1820)

Surveyor, mathematician, astronomer. Secretary, Pennsylvania Land Office, 1801-08. In 1803, while living here, he taught Meriwether Lewis surveying and navigation skills. Helped survey & draw boundaries of New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. & elsewhere.

Marker is on N. Prince ...