U. S. Grant Birthplace

Hiriam Ulysses Grant was born in this one-story, timber frame home on April 27, 1822 to Jesse and Hannah Simpson Grant. The Grants settled in Point Pleasant the previous year, and Jesse took charge of the tannery located near the ...

Birthplace of the Santa Fe Railway Company

To commemorate the birthplace

of

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

Railway Company in Atchison, Kansas

February 11, 1859

From this small beginning - a rail line connecting Atchison and Topeka, Kansas - a great transportation system evolved bringing much pride and renown to our ...

Birthplace of the University Of Georgia

Meeting Place of Legislature in 1785

Directly across Bay Street from this marker formerly stood the brick building. Built in late colonial days and known as the “Coffee House.” In which the Legislature of Georgia met in 1785. Owned by Thomas ...

Birthplace of Alexander Hamilton Stephens

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"Little Alec,” Vice-President of the Confederacy, was born nearby in a log cabin Feb. 11, 1812, son of Andrew B. & Margaret Grier Stephens, a poor farm family. At his parents’ death he was educated by an uncle, Gen. A. ...

Stuart's Birthplace

To the west stood Laurel Hill (built about 1830), where Confederate Maj. Gen. James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart was born on 6 Feb. 1833 to Archibald Stuart, a lawyer and politician, and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart. The house burned in ...

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum

Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897

in the home of her grandparents,

Alfred G. and Amelia Harres Otis.

The home was constructed circa 1860.

The Birthplace Museum is owned by

The Ninety-Nines, Inc. International Organization of Women Pilots

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum

has been placed on ...

Birthplace of George Westinghouse

Birthplace Of

George Westinghouse 1846 - 1914

Inventor of the Westinghouse

Air Brake

Marker is at the intersection of George Westinghouse Road and Sidney Road, on the right when traveling south on George Westinghouse Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Birthplace of Benjamin Harvey Hill

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Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823-1882), first to proclaim the New South industrial rather than agricultural, was born one mile from here. When he was 12 years old his father, John Hill, moved with his family to Long ...

Birthplace of General Joseph Wheeler

A short distance north of this place, General Joseph Wheeler was born on Sept. 10, 1836. He graduated from West Point in 1859 and held the rank of 2nd

lieutenant when the Civil War broke out. Resigning his commission in the ...

Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Kentucky's Most Famous Citizen

Birth of a Legend

Kentucky's

Most Famous Citizen

Colonel Harland Sanders began the part of his life that brought him fame in a small gasoline service station on the opposite side of this highway. Born on September 9, 1890, near ...