John A Belt Building

Built 1903. According to an 1880’s newspaper report, John A. Belt was the proprietor of the largest mercantile establishment in Montgomery County. Belt’s store and upstairs hall, known as Norman Hall, became the pivotal structure of Gaithersburg’s social, cultural, ...

Syndicate Building

ca. 1909

Tenants of this two storefront building have

been Maxwell Brown's Fancy Groceries,

Mitchell's Grocery, Jack Schulman's

Clothing, and Freeze Drug Co. The Woodmen

of the World Hall was upstairs.

Marker is on North Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Natural Bridge

March 6, 1865

Site of decisive repulse of Federal forces by Confederate Militia in joint U.S. Army and Navy Operation to take St. Marks.

The Army landing at lighthouse was prevented from getting to rear of St. Marks by Confederate ...

Branch Bank of the State of Georgia at Eatonton

In the Dec. 4, 1818 Georgia Journal directors of the Bank of the State of Georgia at Savannah announced a meeting on Jan. 1, 1819 to appoint 7 directors and a cashier for the branches established at Eatonton and Greensborough. ...

1936 Akron Rubber Strike

Five Depression-era strikes against many of Akron's rubber companies culminated in a giant "sit-down" strike against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the industry's leader, in February and March of 1936. The fledgling United Rubber Workers (URW), created in September 1935, ...

First movement by steam on a railroad in New Jersey

First movement by steam on a railroad in the state of New Jersey, November 12, 1831, by the original locomotive "John Bull" now deposited in the United States National Museum at Washington. The first piece of railroad track in New ...

Battle of Perryville

October 8, 1862

Here 16,00 Confederates under

General Braxton Bragg

fought 22,000 Federals under

General Don Carlos Buell.

Bragg, facing superior forces,

withdrew.Union casualties 4211;

Confederate, 3396.

Marker is on West 2nd Street (U.S. 150) near Buell Street (U.S. 68), ...

Springboro Area Underground Railroad

Historic Underground Railroad Site

A predominantly Quaker community in its early days, Springboro served as a hospitable thoroughfare for many runaway slaves on their way north to freedom. Between 1815 and 1864, Springboro was host to numerous safe-houses and many agents ...

Headquarters, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, U. S. Army

The splendid natural harbor of Hampton Roads served the nation as a military port of embarkation in the Spanish American War and two World Wars. In World War 1, headquarters were set up at Newport News on July 11, 1917, ...

Lincoln in Albany

"I hold myself without mock modesty, the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency....You have generously tendered me the united support of the great Empire State." - Abraham Lincoln speaking to the New York Legislature ...