The Fence

After September 11th,thousands of visitors from around the world flooded the sidewalks around St. Paul’s and posted ribbons, letters, photographs, and numerous personal items on the fence. People transformed the Chapel’s wrought iron fence into a spontaneous memorial, expressing their ...

The Invention of the Cotton Gin

This creative development which was responsible for the survival of the cotton industry in the United States occurred on General Nathaniel Greene's plantation near Savannah, 10 miles northeast of this marker. Separation by hand labor of the lint from the ...

First Ferry and Bridge

Site of

First ferry on the Trinity River at Dallas was started here, 1842, by John Neely Bryan (1810 - 1877), the founder of Dallas. Alexander Cockrell (1820 - 1858), early builder and developer, replaced ferry with wooden toll bridge, 1854. ...

In Memory of Robert E. Lee

Engineer, St. Louis Harbor

1837-1841

His engineering genius was responsible for moving the Mississippi River Channel back to the St. Louis shore, preserving the city as a river port.

Erected by

the Missouri Committee

R. E. Lee Memorial Association

Mrs. William Armstrong •

Mrs. Charles Fox ...

Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the District of Colum

1000 U Street, NW

The first African Masonic order south of the Mason-Dixon line was founded in the District of Columbia in 1825. Social Lodge No. 7, as it was known, combined with two other lodges in 1848 to form ...

Murfreesboro

First settlers came in 1799; the settlement was first named Cannonsburg. It was actually founded in 1811 on land donated by Capt. William Lytle, who stipulated that the town should be named for Hardee Murfree, a Revolutionary veteran of Williamson ...

Bethabara Fort 1756-63

(reconstructed)

The French and Indian War (1754-63) prompted the peaceful Moravians, in the midst of busy harvest time and in only 18 days, to build a five-sided palisade around the central part of the community. Later, such fortifications were added to ...

Fort Barrington

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Approximately ten miles west of here on the banks of the Altamaha River stood Fort Barrington, a stronghold whose origin dates back to earliest Colonial times. It was built as a defense against the Spaniards and Indians and ...

Chief Win-no-shik, the Elder

Win-no-shik, the Elder, was a notable chief of the Winnebago. On a treaty signed February 27, 1855, at Washington, D. C., his signature reads "Wau-kon-chaw-koo-haw, or the Coming Thunder, or Win-no-shik."

Win-no-shik was promoted to the rank of chief when ...

Camp Lacey / Doylestown Fair

Camp Lacey

Bucks County's own 104th Vol. Regiment est. a Civil War military tent city here in 1861. Their training completed, 1,049 men led by Colonel W.W.H. Davis, departed the Doylestown train station to join the Army of the ...