A Slave Auction Block

Legend and narrative testimonies describe this stone as a slave auction block.

From the Page News & Courier, August 31, 1961: “This native sandstone block . . . which stood at the corner of Main and Court Streets at the ...

Cream Brick Cottages / Cream Brick

Cream Brick Cottages

Racine’s rapid and diversified industrial growth after the Civil War attracted a large working population to the city. Desiring their own homes, many workers built modest cottages of similar design in wood or brick. A high concentration of ...

Gabriel’s Rebellion

On 24 Aug. 1800, slave Ben Woolfolk met with other slaves at nearby Littlepage’s Bridge to recruit individuals for an insurrection planned for 30 Aug. The insurgents led by Gabriel, a slave owned by Thomas Henry Prosser of Henrico County, ...

Third Armored Field Artillery Battalion

Dedicated to the Third Armored Field Artillery Battalion whose members fought with valor and distinction in the Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe campaigns of World War II receiving a Presidential Unit Citation for sustained artillery fire, repulsing an entire German ...

Beechcraft UC-45J Expeditor

Bu. No. 89484

The C-45 was developed from the Beech Model 18 civil transport which first flew on 15 January 1937. The USAAF placed orders for its first aircraft in 1940, acquiring nearly 1300 of the Beech 18s modified for various ...

Middle Redoubt of the American Army   1776

This marks the Middle Redoubt

built by

the American Army 1776

At this point on Nov. 16, 1776

under

General Washington

occurred some of the

Fiercest fighting of

the Battle of

Washington Heights

Erected by

Washington Heights Chapter

N. S. D. A. R.

May 5, 1929

Marker can be reached from W 155th Street, ...

Dobyville

Dobyville, named for long-time resident Richard Cornelius Doby, was also known as West Hyde Park. By the 1920s, Dobyville was one of Tampa's primary African-American neighborhoods. The approximate historic boundaries went from Gray Street on the north to Horatio Street ...

The Old Verde River Sheep Bridge

Marker 1 - (Main Marker):

The original Verde River Sheep Bridge, also known as the Red Point Sheep Bridge, was constructed at this location in 1943 by Flagstaff Sheep Company, which had been grazing sheep in the area under a Forest ...

Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

The Rev. John Jasper, born a slave in Fluvanna County on 4 July 1812, organized the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church congregation in Richmond on 3 Sept. 1867 in a former Confederate stable on Brown’s Island. A nationally celebrated preacher, ...

Site of the First Public School in California

This marks the site of the first

public school in California

Erected in 1847 — Opened April 3, 1848

This commemorative marker was erected

in 1957 by the Grand Lodge of Free

and Accepted Masons of the State of California