109th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade

(Front):109th Panna.

Infantry.

2d Brigade,

2nd Division, 12th Corps

July 1. 2. 3.

1863

(Left):

July 1st. The regiment arrived within two miles of Gettysburg about 5 p.m. and took position on the left of the Baltimore Pike. July 2d. it moved here and built these ...

Falling Spring Presbyterian Church

The oldest congregation in the Fincastle Presbytery, the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, was organized before 1748. The Hanover Presbytery met here in October, 1780. The present Gothic Revival church was constructed of slave-made brick during the Civil War. At the ...

The Johnson Manufacturing Company

Side A:

The Johnson Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1902 by brothers James B., J. Will, Isaac T., and Charles F. Johnson, all of Quaker heritage. The company manufactured tin and galvanized iron ware for railroad lines across the United States. ...

Site of Sojourner Truth's Speech on Women's Rights

On this site on May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, gave her world famous "And Ain't I a Woman?" speech, recalling the hardships she had endured. Active in both the Abolitionist and Women's Rights Movements, she electrified an ...

John Anderson Ward Farmstead / John Quincy Adams Ward & Edgar Me

Side A:

John Anderson Ward Farmstead

John Anderson Ward had this Federal style house constructed from 1823-1825 on land inherited from his father, Urbana's founder Colonel William Ward. The Colonel's will stipulated that a local mason use 26,500 bricks to ...

The Spanish Fort

In 1891 upon the completion of the Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry B. Plant recovered two Civil War cannon from across the Hillsborough River at the site of Old Fort Brooke. With his landscape architect Anton Fiehe, Mr. Plant placed the ...

Harmony Lodge No. 8 Free and Accepted Masons

A group of Freemasons, inspired by the concepts of a new country, of Freedom with Responsibility, Brotherly Love, and Truth, formed Harmony Lodge near this site in 1809, the first Masonic lodge in western Ohio. Meetings were held in the ...

William Henry Ruffner

William Henry Ruffner, educational reformer, clergyman, and geologist, was born in Lexington on 11 Feb. 1824. After pursuing careers as a preacher and a geological surveyor, he was appointed in 1870 as Virginia's first superintendent of public instruction by the ...

Fond du Lac – Minnesota

Site of Ojibway Village

from earliest known period

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Luth

was here in 1679

Astor's American Fur Company

established a trading post

on this spot about 1817

First Ojibway Treaty in Minnesota

made here in 1826

This monument was erected by

The Daughters of

the American Revolution

Duluth, Minnesota

September ...

Warren G. Grimes / Grimes Field

Warren G. Grimes

Raised in an Ohio orphanage, Warren G. Grimes (1898-1975) ran away after finishing the ninth grade and at age 16 went to work for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. He later became a partner in an electrical ...