Wea Tribe at Terre Haute

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This bountiful area on the Wabash River was occupied early by American Indians. French and later Americans recognized this strategic area called terre haute (high land). At least one Wea village was present in area by late 1700s. Wea ...

Juana Briones Y Tapia de Miranda

1802 – 1889

Juana Briones, born in Hispanic California, was a preeminent woman of her time. In the 1830s and 1840s she transformed an isolated cove in the then Mexican hamlet of Yerba Buena into her rancho. At the site ...

Abraham Lincoln Lewis Mausoleum

Pioneer Abraham Lincoln Lewis (1865-1947) and others founded Florida’s oldest African-American insurance company, Afro-American Life in 1901, which spread throughout the South as far as Texas. In 1926, A.L. Lewis opened Lincoln Golf and Country Club where the famous visited, ...

Mainbernheimer Gate

Mainbernheimer Tor

[Marker text in German:]

Erste Erwähnung 1422.

Wehrhafte Doppeltoranlage

mit Torwächterhaus,

Vorwerk und Haupttor.

[Marker text translated into English, more or less:]

First mentioned in 1422.

Fortified double-gate structure with gatekeeper's house, forward works, and main gate.

Marker is at the intersection of Mainbernheimerstrasse and Am Stadtgraben ...

William Bryd’s Camp

Near here, on Matrimony Creek, William Bryd pitched his camp, November, 1728, while determining the Virginia-North Carolina boundary line.

Marker is on US 220, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Capitol Building

Louisville Georgia

First Capitol built by the State of Georgia. Used as seat of government 1796 - 1807

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 1) 0 miles east of Green Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Civil War in Lynchburg

Prisoner-of-War Camp

This was the site of a Confederate training camp and Union prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. Before Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, the population of Lynchburg doubled

with the influx of soldiers from

other parts of the ...

Col. E. R. Bradley

1859 - 1946

The activities of Col. E. R. Bradley ranged from operating Palm Beach's Beach Club casino to staging charity race days for orphans. A product of a burgeoning nation in the 19th century, Bradley worked in steel mills in ...

James Ben Ali Haggin

1821 - 1914

A Kentucky-born grandson of a Turkish Army officer, James Ben Ali Haggin was lured west by the Gold Rush. He and his partners eventually owned South Dakora's Homestake Mine---the richest gold vein in North America. Haggin's group also ...

Robert A. Alexander

1819 - 1867

Robert A. Alexander established the 2,000-acre Woodburn Stud in Woodford County, in part with the inheritance left by an uncle in Scotland. By creating a commercial breeding operation, Alexander introduced a degree of professionalist to breeding horses that ...