John Sevier Farmstead

Marble Springs was the farmstead of John Sevier. Tennessee’s first governor (1796–1801 and 1803–1809). While Sevier used the farm as a retreat where he entertained guests, it was originally a frontier station used by immigrants on the trace from the ...

Spermaceti Cove Lifeboat Station

In 1848, eight lifeboat stations were built along the New Jersey coast between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor. You are looking at the only surviving structure of the original eight. It was moved here from its Sandy Hook location ...

Revolutionary War Campaign of 1781

Mechunk Creek

After reinforcements from Brig. Gen "Mad" Anthony Wayne arrived on 10 June 1781, the Marquis de Lafayette moved south from his camp on the Rapidan River to prevent further raids by Gen. Charles Cornwallis British troops encamped at Elk ...

Birthplace of Commodore Stephen Decatur

United States Navy, born January 5, 1779, mortally wounded in duel at Bladensburg, Md., March 22, 1820.

Marker can be reached from Tripoli Road 0.1 miles from US 113, on the left when traveling west.

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The Patriots Lay Siege to the Star Fort

May 22-June 18, 1781

"Our success is very doubtful."

General Nathanael Greene

May 23, 1781

General Greene entrusted Colonel Thaddeus Kosciuszko with the task of creating siegeworks -- a system of trenches -- that would allow his men to approach and capture the Star ...

The River of Rafts

This was once one of the busiest stretches on the Upper Mississippi River. Between 1830 and 1915, lumber companies in western Wisconsin floated millions of pine logs and pieces of cut lumber down the Chippewa River, which enters the Mississippi ...

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall

Built 1901, on land donated by Joseph Heinsdorff, Sr., for use by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The two-storied shiplap-sided structure was constructed with locally milled lumber, using large stones as foundation. In 1991, the stones were replaced with ...

The Site of Camp Worth

This stone marks the site of Camp Worth, a United States Military Post named in Honor of General William J. Worth and Commanded by Major Ripley A. Arnold 1849-1853. The camp protected the frontier against Indians, and was the beginning ...

Welcome to Cowpens National Battlefield

A Revolutionary War Site

This park commemorates a decisive battle that helped turn the tide of war in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.

Marker is on Piedmont Road south of Chesnee Highway (South Carolina Highway 11), on the right when ...

Site of the First Masonic Hall in Fort Worth

After many years of debate, Fort Worth researchers identified this site in 1957 as the location of the city's first Masonic lodge. For more than twenty years, lodge members met in a two story hall at this location. The group ...