Culp-Beaty Hall

[Front Side]:

This Greek Revival house was built ca. 1857 for Benjamin Dudley Culp (1821-1885) and his wife Cornelia Meng Culp (1830-1888). Culp, a Union merchant, owned stores on Main Street with partners J.T. Hill and H.L. Goss from the 1850s ...

Barbour County Vietnam Era Veterans Memorial

This monument and park are

dedicated in sincere appreciation

of all Barbour County Vietnam

era Veterans who served

this great nation -

United States of America

1961 - 1973

Dedicated on May 25, 1987

by

United States Senator

John D. Rockefeller IV

All gave some - These gave all

Viet Nam War

William ...

Osborne County Pioneers Memorial

Freedom • Adventure • Home • Pioneers

Erected to the memory of those early settlers, of Osborne Co., who made possible our homes of today.

Dedicated May 30, 1929.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and 4th Street, on the left ...

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Oldest cemetery for African Americans in Baltimore, founded in 1872 by Rev. James Peck, pastor, and trustees of Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Dating to 1787, the congregation served the community and was influential in the freedom movement of the ...

Raritan Bay & New York Harbor

Industry & Trade

Boating is a popular activity on Raritan and Sandy Hook bays. These waters provide both shelter from and access to the Atlantic Ocean. Over the past three centuries, maritime traffic in the Raritan Bay – New York ...

Franklin Augustus "F. A." Seiberling and The Goodyear Tire and R

Industrialist and entrepreneur Franklin Augustus Seiberling (1859-1955) named his fledgling rubber goods manufacturing company "Goodyear" to honor Charles Goodyear, the man who invented the vulcanization process for curing rubber. Seiberling founded the company with his brother, Charles Willard, because of ...

Sir Isaac Brock's First Burial Site

Placed Here by the Niagara

Historical Society

This Marks

The Spot Where

Gen. Sir Isaac

Brock,

was buried from

1812 To 1824

Marker can be reached from Queens Parade just south of Wellington Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Stephen Moulton Babcock

1843 – 1931

Stephen Moulton Babcock came to the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1887 and remained until his death in 1931. His life was filled with a great eagerness to know and a persistent desire to serve. He is best ...

Lynchburg Town Ferry

The Lynchburg Town Ferry, founded in 1822 by Nathaniel Lynch, crosses the Houston Ship Channel downstream of the confluence of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou. In 1829, the authorities at San Felipe de Austin requested that Lynch move ...

Valuable Crossroads

Battle of the Wilderness

Just after noon on May 5, 1864, Union troops raced toward this intersection. With Confederates from General A.P. Hill's corps sweeping down the Orange Plank Road from the west, blue-clad troops under George W. Getty arrived here ...