Jack Roosevelt Robinson

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

Jack Roosevelt Robinson

1919–1972

Jack Roosevelt Robinson, the first African-American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, played in his first minor league game in Jersey ...

Chickahominy Bluff

1862 Seven Days' Battles

(left panel)

Visiting Richmond National Battlefield Park

The concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield landscapes, to hear the ...

Elisha Baxter

Governor of Arkansas, 1873-74; Union colonel in Civil War; elected to U.S. Senate, 1864, but not seated. Birthplace stood 4 1/2 miles S.E.

Marker is at the intersection of Business U.S. 74 and Alternate U.S. 221, on the left when traveling ...

Howard Automobile Company

Frederick Reimers, Architect, 1930, Hayashida Architects, 2006

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1983

This Zig-Zag Moderne building, designed for the sale and servicing of Buick automobiles, captures the glamour, rising affluence, and sophistication of the post-World War I era. Charles Howard, who ...

Raleigh Rutherford Haynes / Simpson Bobo Tanner

1885

are known as the fathers of the textile industry in Rutherford County. Near this site was located the first textile mill.

Marker is on Harris-Henrietta Road 0.1 miles north of Main Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Shuman Block

McDougall Brothers, Architects

Berkeley History

Horse-drawn wagons once carried goods to the Berkeley Free Market housed here. In 1952 the structure was modernized to accommodate automobile showrooms, with artist studios above. Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Biscoff, William Theophilus Brown, and Paul Wonner are ...

The Duckett Cabin

This hand hewn log cabin was built in Aquasco, Maryland around 1880 as a farm tenant house. This one up and one down design with one room and a loft was typically used for slave cabins during the early 1800s. ...

Barker Building

A.W. Smith, Architect

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1978

James Loring Baker was an early Berkeley landowner, developer, and civic leader. He was one of the signers of the incorporation papers for the Town of Berkeley and it was he who delivered ...

Stone Bank

Indian trails crossed heavily forested land when the first speculator, John Rockwell, came to what is now called Stone Bank in 1839. He purchased land from the government for $1.25 per acre. John Johnson arrived in 1840. John Weigand, J. ...

Jesse Benbow House

1858

Jesse Benbow was born in 1815 to Charles and Mary (Saunders) Benbow. In 1838 Jesse married Ann Clark and they had seven children.

Jesse designed the house using oak trees from the property for the joists and foundation, and clay from ...