Rev John Corbley

1733 - 1803

A noted Baptist minister serving area congregations, Corbley was among some 150 men arrested by federal troops on the “Dreadful Night" of November 13, 1794. A vocal opponent of the excise tax on whiskey, he was the area’s ...

Joseph Hardin

1734-1801

Colonel Hardin was born in Virginia but moved to North Carolina in 1772. During the Revolutionary War, he fought at King's Mountain and elsewhere in the South. He was Speaker of the House of the State of Franklin in 1785 ...

Jail - 1848

This building with the West addition served as the Gaston County Jail until 1911 when the County seat was moved to Gastonia. The Sheriff and his family had living quarters on the first floor. The second floor still contains the ...

To the memory of Jacob Ruppert

1867 - 1939

Gentleman • American • Sportsman

Through whose vision and courage this imposing edifice, destined to become the home of champions, was erected and dedicated to the American game of baseball.

Marker can be reached from the intersection ...

Navajo Bridge Erection Toggle Screw/Navajo Bridge

State of Arizona

This Erection Toggle Screw was used in the construction of the historic Navajo Bridge to maintain bridge vertical elevations and as a means of lowering bridge sections in place.

[Plaque Mounted on Bridge]:

State of Arizona

Navajo Bridge

Arch 616 feet • ...

Judge William Prince

Erected 1914

Centennial Year

by

General John Gibson

Chapter Daughters

of the

American Revolution

in Honor of

Judge William Prince

after whom Princeton

was Named

Marker is at the intersection of West Broadway Street (Indiana Route 64) and North Hart Street, on the ...

James A. Garfield

(Front):James A. Garfield

1831 - 1881

(Left):Major General USV,

Member of Congress,

Senator

and

President

of the

United States

of

America.

(Right):Erected

by his comrades

of the

Society of the Army

of the

Cumberland

May 12 1887.

Marker is at ...

Joseph N. Nicollet

Nicollet Island bears the name of a French scholar and scientist who explored the headwaters of the Mississippi for the US government in 1836. Accompanied by some Ojibway friends and two hired voyageurs, Joseph Nicollet camped by the falls for ...

Sir Knight John W. Smith / Daniel D. Vanderslice

Sir Knight John W. Smith

Died in Memphis Tenn. Dec. 18, 1877

Aged 86 years

A Master Mason, Royal Arch

and Knight Templar

62 years a Mason and

first Deputy Grand Master

of the Grand Lodge of Kansas

Erected by the Masonic Fraternity

of Kansas in memory of the

first ...

John Howard Payne

Author of "Home,Sweet Home," suspected as a spy of the Cherokee Indians was imprisoned here in 1835, but released.

Erected by Old Guard of Atlanta

Oct. 6, 1922;

Jos. A. McCord; Commandant

Marker is at the intersection of Georgia Route 225 and Georgia ...