Tailor's Shop Addition and Well after 1766

In the floor of the cellar of this addition to the 1764 Tailor's Shop, a depression was found containing the remains of a small wooden box. A drain leading to the box indicates that water collected in the box and ...

Pioneer Ski Area of America

Squaw Valley, California

One thousand competitors from 34 nations came to Squaw Valley to compete in the VIII Olympic Winter Games of 1960. The Games, brought here by Alexander C. Cushing, commemorated a century of sport skiing in America. By ...

Church of the Advent

Cornerstone:

Church of the Advent

Parish House

1912

Except the Lord build the house, their labor is in vain that build it.

Nearby marker:This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Provincial Congress

In America to be called and held in defiance of British orders met in this town, Aug. 25-27, 1774, with 71 delegates present.

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 70) near Craven Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Flour Bin 1758

Added to the bakery, which adjoined the bin on the northeast side, this was a secure storage place for flour supplied by the Moravians' mill (1755). This bakery supplied the town with bread unitl it was replaced by a new ...

Jefferson Davis Dined in This House

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate

States of America

Dined in this House,

The former home of

Brigadier General

William H. Wallace

April 28, 1865

Marker is on East Main Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Site of the First Alabama - Auburn Football Game

The first Alabama - Auburn football game was played on this site, formerly known as the Base Ball Park, on February 22, 1893. The Agricultural and Mechanical College's "Orange and Blue" met the University of Alabama's "Tuskaloosa" squad before a ...

Armored Forces

"A balanced team of combat arms and services of equal importance and equal prestige"

Maj Gen Adna Chaffee

Father of the American Armored Force

Marker is on Memorial Drive near Eisenhower Drive.

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“A Dreadful scene of havock”

In 1782, five years after Paoli, this picture was painted in London for a British officer who participated in the battle. Although the artist, Xavier della Gatta, never saw the Paoli Battlefield, this rare contemporary image of Revolutionary War combat ...

Sloss Furnaces

The crossing of railroads in 1872 adjacent to this site gave rise to the industrial city of Birmingham. In 1881 Alabama railroad magnate and entrepreneur James Withers Sloss, capitalizing on the unusual coincidence of coal, iron ore and limestone in ...