The Burying Ground – For Colored Paupers

The Garden of Lilies

This colored paupers’ cemetery was originally founded in 1895 by William Forrester as a part of Greenwood Memorial Cemetery in Henrico County. Many of the colored cemeteries in the city were overgrown due to lack of appropriate ...

Enoch Pratt Free Library

In 1882, the merchant Enoch Pratt, wishing to make a gift to his adopted city which would benefit all of her citizens, gave Baltimore $1,058,000 to establish a public library.

The original building fronted on Mulberry Street. Designed by the ...

200th Anniversary of Albany Charter

Tablet commemorating the

Two Hundredth Anniversary

of

Albany

As a chartered city

Settled about 1624:

Charter Granted by Gov. Dongan:

July 22 1606:

State Legislature Held Here Permanently Since 1797:

Early Names Of The City:

Fort Orange: Beverwyck: Wilemstadt:

First City Hall Erected Near Fort Orange About 1686. Second One ...

The Oblate Sisters of Providence

July 2, 1829

At this site, 610 George Street, under the leadership of foundress, Mother Mary Lange, four women took vows of consecrated chastity, evangelical poverty, and religious obedience. Thus began the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Congregation of ...

Third Brigade

Second Division - Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps Second Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. George S. Greene

60th. 78th. 102d. 137th. 149th. New York Infantry

July 1 Arrived about 5 p.m. and took position on the left of the First Corps on Cemetery ...

Chase At Richbourg’s Mill

During the American Revolution, November 1780, Colonel Tarleton with his Green Dragoons hunted General Marion. Tarleton encamped at the late General Richardson’s home. Marion was warned by the widow's son and quickly withdrew to the east of Jack's Creek near ...

Joseph Vallence Bevan (1798-1830)

Georgia's First Official Historian

There was "None, No None!" reads the epitaph on this tomb.

"Against Whose Name the Recording Angel Would More Reluctantly Have Written Down Condemnation."

Born at Dublin, Ireland.son of a Georgia planter, Joseph V. Bevan attended the Univ. of ...

Auburn Automobile Company

Auburn Automobile Company (1900-1937) Art Deco Style Administration building, built 1929-1930. Housed departments of Cord Corporation, manufacturer of Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg automobiles. Became Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum, 1974; listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1978.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

The Gamble House

1850

Home of James Gamble

founder of Proctor and Gamble

Re-Dedicated in 1992

Marker is on Clark Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Double Mills

A natural watering place in prehistoric time, as evidenced by artifacts found here. Used later by Indians and Spaniards on roads from northern Mexico.

As Maravillas Creek developed from a draw into water channel, old water hole vanished. About 1900 ...