Fishburne Park Flagpole

Dedicated

to all the Veterans

of the Valley

Marker is on Brambleton Avenue SW (U.S. 221) near Montgomery Avenue SW, on the right when traveling east.

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Rescue of Joshua Glover

Joshua Glover was a runaway slave who sought freedom in Racine in 1852. In 1854, his Missouri owner used the Fugitive Slave Act to apprehend him. This 1850 law permitted slave catchers to cross state lines to captured escaped slaves. ...

Fort Pike

Historic State Monument 5 miles west on US 90 was completed in 1828 to defend Rigolets Pass approach through Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans. Named after Brigadier Gen. Zebulon Montgomery Pike.

Marker can be reached from U.S. 90.

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Friends Meeting House

A Bicentennial Commemorative Site

Recognizing America's

200th Year of Liberty

Friends Meeting House

Established 1684 by

Mahlon Stacy & others

as part of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting

Building erected in 1739

Marker is at the intersection of East Hanover Street and ...

Battle of Paris

On this ridge on March 11, 1862, 450 Confederate troops under the command of Major H. Clay King, 1st Kentucky Battalion, Cavalry, and Stack's and McCutchan's unattached Tennessee Companies were attacked by Federal troops from Fort Henry. 20 Confederates and ...

Firemen’s Memorial

Dedicated to the

Fire Department of the

City of Trenton

Volunteer Department Organized

February 7, 1747

Paid Department Established

April 4, 1892

Re-dedicated 1961

(Second Plaque):

Memorial to the members of the Trenton Paid Fire Department who sacrificed their lives ...

Friendship Hall

(Circa 1740)

Fine 2½ story brick house with pilasters on front and two oval windows in pediment of west gable. Home of Sulivane family, 17th century settlers here, three generations of whom served in Maryland General Assembly: James Sulivane, Commissary Officer ...

A Fatal Reconnaissance

When "Stonewall" Jackson reached this point at about 9 p.m. on May 2, 1863, he stood at the peak of his military career. Four hundred yards in front of you, a shaken Union army hastily built earthworks to halt the ...

Native Sons of the Golden West

Chispa Parlor No. 139 was chartered April 10, 1889, dissolved April 25, 1896, and reorganized March 14, 1905.

This site was first occupied circa 1860 by the Independent Order of Good Templars, a group dedicated to the prohibition of liquor and ...

Madison's Riverfront / Underground Railroad

[Side A:]

Madison’s Riverfront

Once a bustling commercial and industrial area,

Madison’s riverfront has greatly changed since the

City’s founding in 1809. On these banks stood

factories, mills, hotels and taverns, typical of a

busy river port on the frontier. Annual flooding

has forced the move to ...