First Black Public School

Near here, in July 1872, the first local public school for black students was opened. The school was the result of an action by the City Council directing the Trustees of the Columbus Public Schools to set up classes for ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

Buying Time on the Beverly Ford Road

Both Union and Confederate armies used horse artillery to assist cavalry. When firing erupted at Beverly Ford on the morning of June 9, 1863, Major Robert F. Beckham's battalion of Confederate horse artillery (16 ...

Oldest House in Cambridge

1630 – 1930

At Number 21 Linnaean Street is the Cooper-Austin House built in 1657 at what was then the northern end of the Cambridge Cow Common, by John Cooper, selectman, town clerk, and deacon of the church.

Marker is at the ...

William Hanby, Freedom Crusader

Historic Underground Railroad Site

Bishop William Hanby, (1807-1880) courageous and of strong convictions, publicly voiced his scorn at a law that made it a felony to give food to a hungry slave, or shelter to a friendless man. From pulpit, platform, ...

The First Building of the Centre Congregational Church

Here Stood the First Building

Of the Centre Congregational Church

Erected in 1815

Moved to Its Present Site 1842

This Marker Was Placed July 5, 1916

Marker is on Park Place 0.1 miles east of ...

10th Independent Battery New York Light Artillery

1st Volunteer Brigade

10th Independent Battery

New York Light Artillery

1st Volunteer Brigade

Artillery Reserve

July 2nd 1863.

Attached to 5th Massachusetts

Light Battery (E).

Casualties

Killed 2. Wounded 3.

Organized as the 2nd

Excelsior Battery.

Mustered into U.S. Service

April 9th 1862.

Consolidated with 6th

N.Y. Independent Battery

June 21st 1864.

Mustered out June 22nd 1865.

Marker ...

Galena Chamber of Commerce

Route 66 Roadside Attraction

In 2001, members of the community joined with the Galena Chamber of Commerce to donate a block of the downown Route 66 main street to construct a park for everyone to enjoy.

Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark program ...

Brattleboro Veterans Monument

Dedicated In Loving

Memory of the Men and

Women of Brattleboro

Who Made the Supreme

Sacrifice in

World War I

World War II

Korean War

Vietnam War

Marker is at the ...

Botsford Church - 1773

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Botsford Church, Constituted in 1773 by the Rev. Edmund Botsford, was the second Baptist church in Georgia. Originally located 25 miles below Augusta, known as the New Savannah Church, it was moved about 10 miles to this place after the ...

William Bull

English Stonemason, with wife Sarah Wells, Orange County Pioneers, built 1722 homestead on 2600 acre land grant

Marker is at the intersection of Sarah Wells Trail (County Route 8) and Pischke Rd, on the right when traveling north on Sarah ...