Attack on Pearl Harbor

This memorial is dedicated to the memory of our 2403 comrades who made the supreme sacrifice during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the surrounding installations – December 7, 1941.

May all who come here to learn, remember their sacrifices ...

Waynesboro

Settlers began to arrive to present day Augusta County in the 1730s and by the Revolutionary War a small hamlet existed here. By 1797, it was known as Waynesborough, for Revolutionary War hero Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne. It became a ...

Jacob Brown

About one mile S.W., this pioneer from S.C. settled on Nolichucky River in 1771. Brown's purchase of 2 tracts of land from the Cherokee on March 25, 1775, was made beneath a great oak tree still standing nearby. His sandstone ...

Obstruction of River

To block the channel of the Ogeechee River, a double row of piling was placed across the river at a point opposite this marker.

Marker is on Fort McAllister Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Chinese Baptist Church

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This church was organized on October 3, 1880. The congregation first met in rented quarters on Washington Street across from Portsmouth Square, and moved to the present location ...

Nelson County / Albemarle County

Nelson County. In the foothills of Virginia’s Piedmont,

Nelson County was formed in 1807 from Amherst County. The county was named for Thomas Nelson, Jr., governor of Virginia from June to November 1781. The county seat is Lovingston. The Nelson ...

Albany / Enterprise Academy

Albany (Side A)

The village of Albany was established in 1838 as a market center for the surrounding agricultural area, which saw its first white settlement in the early years of the nineteenth century. Education was always a major concern of ...

Dr. W. H. Robb Residence

Site of the residence of

Dr. W. H. Robb

until it was acquired by

the Chillicothe Telephone Company

for the new

Frankfort Telephone Exchange

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Central Alley, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dominick Labino

This site is dedicated to Dominick Labino, 1910-1987, glass scientist, engineer, artist, and inventor. Credited with 57 patents, Mr. Labino invented pure silica fiber which was used in insulating tiles covering the space shuttle Columbia and the Apollo, Mercury, and ...

Draining the Great Black Swamp

The landscape of northwest Ohio was formed by melting ice and glacial lakes left behind in its wake. Because of the low gradient (3 feet fall per mile) to the northeast, the flat lacustrine plain evolved into a large swamp. ...