Cabin John

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“... in our midst exists one of the most imposing and wonderful structures which engineering skill could devise ...” --William T.S. Curtis, November 1, 1897, from a paper read before the Columbia Historical Society.

As late as the ...

Battle of Harlem Heights

September 16 – 1776

In grateful remembrance of

the brave soldiers

of New York, New Jersey,

Connecticut, Massachusetts,

Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,

Maryland and Virginia

who under

General George Washington

fought and died on this site

for liberty

in their country’s ...

Original Melbourne Village Hall

This community hall was constructed, circa 1941, as a barracks on the Banana River Naval Air Station. Following World War II, the Naval Air Station became Patrick Air Force Base. In 1948, this building was declared surplus, and sold to ...

Welwood Murray Memorial Library

In 1938 George Welwood Murray donated this land to provide for a library as a memorial to his father, Welwood Murray, pioneer hotel operator. Cornelia white donated an additional strip of property on the eastern end of the site. The ...

Route Taken by Washington

"Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty"

Marking route taken by Washington from Philadelphia to Cambridge to assume command of the Patriot Army in 1775

Marker is on North Warren Street 0.1 miles from Perry Street, on the left when traveling south. ...

First Woman in Town of Lisbon

Melinda Ann (Warren) Weaver, B. Feb. 25, 1813 in New York State, married an English immigrant, John Weaver, in 1833. In the fall of 1836, with Melinda 7 months pregnant & leading two children the Weaver family took an Erie ...

Robert E. Peary

This monument was placed in honor of the Arctic explorer, discoverer of the North Pole April 6, 1909. Peary was born in Cresson, May 6, 1856, the family moving to Maine in 1859.

Marker is on Admiral Peary Highway (Pennsylvania Route ...

Walterboro Army Air Field

"We were prisoners, but (we weren't made to) feel like prisoners. We were just people waiting to go back home"

- Helmut Ulbricht, German POW, Walterboro Army Air Field, 1945.The Press and Standard, 1994.

Two Hundred and fifty German prisoners of war ...

Gilbert Academy and New Orleans University

5318 St. Charles Avenue Marker

The site of Gilbert Academy

and

New Orleans University

Black Educational

Institutions

Under the auspices of

The Methodist Church

1873 to 1949

Marker is at the intersection of St. Charles Avenue and Valmont Street, on ...

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church Built 1924 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on West Main Street west of Walnut Street, on the right when traveling east.

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