MacArthur Square

MacArthur Square was designated on September 17, 1945 to honor General of the Army Douglas MacArthur for his leadership of Allied forces in the Pacific during World War II. MacArthur, his father General Arthur MacArthur, and his grandfather Judge Arthur ...

Jimmy Carter

This Plaque Erected

In Honor of

JIMMY CARTER

38th President

of the U.S.A.

Commencement Speaker

“On the Quad”

May 20, 1979

Marker can be reached from University Circle.

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Richmond Police Department Memorial

In honor of those

who gave their lives

for their community

Amos Markle, Mar. 13, 1884

George Little, July 8, 1916

Elmer Stephenson, July 8, 1916

John Hennigar, Oct. 21, 1924

Police Officer's Prayer

“Lord I ask for courage

Battle of Carthage

In memory of the men in blue and gray who fought here on July 5, 1861.

Dedicated by the United Veterans of Carthage, who fought side by side in four foreign wars, on July 4, 1961.

Marker is on South Main Street, ...

Martin R. Delany

(1812-1885)

A promoter of African-American nationalism, Delany published a Black newspaper, The Mystery, at an office near here. He attended Harvard Medical School, practiced medicine in Pittsburgh, and was commissioned as a major in the Civil War.

Marker is on 3rd Avenue ...

The Battle of Carthage

July 5, 1861

In early July, 1861 units of the Missouri State Guard under the command of Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson were en route to extreme southwest Missouri to there organize and train to resist Federal dominance of the state. On ...

Alden Partridge

(1784-1854)

A native of Norwich, Vermont, Alden Partridge was a pioneer in American military education. Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1815 to 1817, he returned here in 1819 to found the American Literary, Scientific and Military ...

Winter Quarters of Putnam’s Division

Front of Monument:

Erected to commemorate

the Winter Quarters of

Putnam’s Division of the

Continental Army.

Nov. 7th 1778.

May 25th 1779.

Right of Monument:

Putnam

McDougal

Poor

Parsons

Huntington

Back of Monument:

The men of ‘76

who suffered here,

to preserve forever their

Memory

The State of Connecticut

has erected this monument

A.D. 1888

Left of Monument:

The World

is full ...

Reverend Peter Hobart

In grateful memory of Reverend Peter Hobart and that company of English men and women who founded the town of Hingham, landing near this spot in September, 1635

Marker is on North Street near Station Street.

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Casting Arch & Furnace Hearth

Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument

Casting Arch & Furnace Hearth

Casting Arch

This arch was used to gain access to the hearth area of the furnace. It is the largest of the four arches in the furnace structure. It is from ...