Welcome to Belle Fourche

The Geo Center of the U.S.

In 1959 following the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to the Union, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic survey officially designated a point 20 miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota as the Geographic Center of ...

Noble Hill Rosenwald School

Noble Hill Rosenwald School, now known as Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center, built in 1923 as the first standard school for Black children in Bartow County School System. The school closed in 1955 when all schools for Black Children in Bartow ...

Hansborough Ridge

The Battle of Brandy Station actually occurred in several locations, miles apart. A mile in front of you is Hansborough Ridge. Late in the morning of June 9, 1863, a division of the Union Cavalry under Col. Alfred Duffie approached ...

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

In recognition of the notable career of

Zebulon Montgomery Pike,

· Soldier -- Explorer ·

The people of Colorado have placed this tablet on the summit of the great mountain first seen by Pike, November 15, 1806.

General Pike was born at Lamberton, now ...

Petersburg State Colony for the Negro Insane

Petersburg, Virginia

In 1938 the Virginia Assembly chartered a residential care facility for mentally retarded African-American males between 8 and 21 years of age. The Petersburg State Colony for the Negro Insane, as it was named, was located on the present ...

LaPorte's Carnegie Library

[Side One]

La Porte's first public library was established 1896. La Porte City School Board was awarded $27, 500 Carnegie grant 1916; by 1919 local support had been secured to meet grant requirements. Architect Wilson B. Parker designed the Neo-Classical style ...

Battle of King's Tanyard

On July 31, 1864, at the Battle of Sunshine Church (19 miles NE of Macon), Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman [US] surrendered with 600 men to Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, Jr., [CS], after covering the escape of Adams’ and Capron’s brigades ...

Fort Blanchard

Confederate earth fort mounting four guns. Smallest on Roanoke Island. Surrendered on Feb. 8, 1862. Earthworks are 300 yds. S.

Marker can be reached from U.S. 64/264.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Biggin Church

Parish Church of St. John's Berkeley, founded by Act of Assembly November 30, 1706. Church erected in 1712. Burned by forest fire in 1775 and restored. Burned by Col. Coates of the British Army in 1781 and again restored. Burned ...

Lincoln’s Tomb

Lincoln

[Also engraved in the stone around the tomb are the names or abbreviations of every state at the time of Abraham Lincoln’s death]

Marker is on Monument Avenue near W Oakridge Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org