Harpersville Garden of Memories

The oldest known grave is that of Oprah Moore (1772-1823), consort to Rev. (Doctor) Lemuel Moore. This is the final resting place of American Revolutionary War Patriot William Jennings (1761-1840) and the professed burial site of the Last Creek Indian ...

First Permanent Settlement in Shelburne

Site of First Permanent Settlement in Shelburne, Mass. 1760

Martin Severance 1718 - 1810

Scout in French and Indian Wars

Scout with Rogers Rangers

Revolutionary soldier

Marked by Dorothy Quincy Hancock Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.In cooperation with the ...

Florida's First African-American Insurance Company--1901-2001

The Afro-American Insurance Company, formerly the Afro-American Industrial and Benefits Association, was founded in 1901 to provide affordable health insurance and death benefits to the state's African-Americans. Founded by the Reverend E.J. Gregg, E.W. Latson, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, A.W. Price, ...

Kittiewan Plantation

Colonial home of Dr. William Rickman, Head Surgeon of the Continental Army of Virginia, and wife Elizabeth Harrison Rickman Edmondson, of Berkeley.

Original section constructed ca. 1770-1790, shed roof addition added ca. 1840.

Land referred to as Kenwon, mentioned in ...

Spalding County

Spalding County was created by Act of Dec. 20, 1851 from Fayette, Henry and Pike Counties. It was named for Thomas Spalding (1774-1851), native of Frederica. One of the earliest cotton and sugar cane planters in Georgia, he was a ...

Wryanoke and Parrish Hill

Charles City County, Virginia

The Weanoc Indians gave this area its name. The Minge family settled much of the Weyanoke peninsula during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landmarks have included Weyanoke Parish Church, Tyler’s Mill, a steamboat landing, a post ...

Parowan Cotton Factory

On this site, in 1862 the first Cotton Factory was erected in the west. Designed and operated by William Marsden and owned by Ebenezer Hanks. Here the first ball of Cotton Yarn was made west of the Mississippi River.

Girls That ...

Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe

In Ocmulgee Fields camped Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe and his men on their way to Coweta Town for the purpose of making the treaty with the Creek Confederacy in 1739

Marker is at the intersection of Woolfolk Street and Smith Street, ...

Flint Electric Membership Corporation

Flint Electric Membership Corporation provided electrical service to Wellston, Georgia in 1939. Population about 43 people. In 1943, when the name was changed to Warner Robins, a major commitment was made by Flint EMC to serve the electrical needs of ...

Augustus Chapman Allen

Augustus Chapman Allen was born to Roland and Sarah (Chapman) Allen in Canaseraga, New York on July 4, 1806. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, New York, where he taught mathematics until 1827. That year, he became a ...