Flat Creek Baptist Church

This church, organized July 4, 1776 by Rev. George Pope, a native of Virginia, held its first meetings in a brush arbor on this site and was known as the Upper Fork of Lynches Creek until it was renamed Flat ...

Municipal Building

Designed for the offices of city government, this granite structure was completed in 1913 from plans by McKim, Mead, and White. The symbolic figure, civic fame, atop the tower and the other sculptured elements are the work of Adolf Alexander ...

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln made his only speech in Warren

County, Indiana near this

spot Feb. 11, 1861.“Gentlemen of Indiana: I am happy to meet you on this occasion, and enter again the state of my early life, and almost of maturity. I am ...

Abraham Lincoln

At noon on February 11, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural train stopped at the Great Western Depot located here. It was the day before his 52nd birthday. He had been coming to Vermilion County for twenty years to attend Circuit ...

Weise & Bradford Store

1879

On this northwest corner of the square, the former Hotel Eureka (better known as the Franklin House) once stood. It served as the old stage coach house and was "the best house in town, two stories high, with a ...

Site - Cherokee Baptist College

On Chapman Hill; a school for boys established Jan. 1854. A large three-story brick bldg. flanked by two-story wings. Burned 1856; rebuilt 1857, destroyed by

Federal forces Oct. 12, 1864.

This, & the Methodist Female College 3/4 mi. N.E., were the first ...

Christiansburg

Christiansburg, originally known as "Hans Meadows," was established in 1792 and named for Colonel William Christian noted Colonial and Revolutionary Indian fighter. It became an important place on the route to the West. On May 10, 1864, Averell raided the ...

Hybla Valley Airport

Virginia's first airport permit was granted to Elvin W. Robertson's Hybla Valley Airport in February 1929. As President of Mount Vernon Airways, he utilized the airfield as a site for barnstorming and air circuses. Robertson, Fairfax Supervisor Chairman W.F.P. Reid, ...

Ebenezer Baptist Church

"Our Stone of Help."

"Then Samuel took a stone and named it Ebenezer for he said, 'Thus far the Lord has helped us.'"

(I Samuel 7:12.)

The Rev. John A. Parker,

Pastor 1886-1894.

The Rev. Dr. Alfred Daniel Williams,

Pastor ...

Federal Building - U.S. Courthouse

Designed by W.J. Edbrooke, erected in 1892-99, and designated in 1972 as a landmark of the City of Milwaukee in recognition of its architectural and historical significance to the community.

Marker is on East Wisconsin Avenue, on the right when ...