Berlin Wall

[Left Marker]

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

President Ronald W. Reagan

Berlin, June 12, 1987

[Right Marker]

"Ich bin ein Berliner!"

President John F. Kennedy

Berlin, June 26, 1963

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Beaver’s Path

Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York

BEAVER’S PATH

Location: Battery Place at Greenwich Street

Dutch Name: Bever Straet

Here, on a sandyshore, Lenape Indians beached their canoes to trade beaver and otter pelts for Dutch cloth, kettles, and metal tools. ...

One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Lundy's Lane

This Memorial

– is –

Erected to Commemorate

the celebration of the

One Hundredth

Anniversary of the

Battle of

Lundy's Lane

Held here July 25th 1914

Under the Auspices

– of –

The Lundy's Lane

Historical Society

Marker can be reached from Lundy's Lane just from Hanan Avenue.

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Battle of Nashville

Confederate Defenses - Dec. 16, 1864

Lee's Corps held the right flank of the line in the final stages of the battle, linking with Stewart to the west. Here is extended east, then south around Peach Orchard Hill. Violent attacks by ...

J & T Basque Restaurant Building

1426 Highway 395

This building dates back to the 1870's and was moved to Carson Valley from Virginia City before the end of the 19th Century. It was somewhat commonplace to move buildings from Virginia City after the Comstock Lode ...

Captain Jacob Van Aernam

Captain Jacob Van Aernam

1732 - 1813

Revolutionary hero buried here

Courageous always he fought for

his beloved Country's independence

Marker is on Brandle Road 0.6 miles north of Altamont-Voorheesville Road (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling north.

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Dubois House

The fort built in 1705

by Daniel Dubois. Site

first redoubt. There are

port holes in the east end.

Marker is on Huguenot Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Battle of Dunlawton Plantation

During the 2nd Seminole War, 1836, the Mosquito Roarers, a company of Florida militia under Major Benjamin Putnam, engaged a large band of Seminoles pillaging Dunlawton, a sugar plantation on the Halifax River. Heavy fighting ensued, but the militiamen were ...

Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and the Plum Street Temple

This historic synagogue symbolizes the work of one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American Jewry, Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900). The Bohemian-born rabbi's many achievements include the establishment of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873, Hebrew ...

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Side A:

Among the first in America, Cincinnati's public library dates from March 14, 1853. A public reading room opened in 1856, but funding remained a problem until 1867, when local school board president Rufus King II secured legislation ...