First Performance of Handel's Messiah

This bronze commemorates

the first performance of

George Frideric Handel's

Oratorio Messiah, given

in the Old Musick Hall in

Fishamble Street at noon

on Tuesday April 13th 1742

Marker is on Fishamble Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jeff Davis County Veterans Memorial

All Gave Some Some Gave All

Dedicated

To the Courageous Men and

Women of Jeff Davis County

who Served in

The United States Military

Killed in Action

World War I

[List of 7 names]

World War ...

City of Hitchcock

In region held before 1820s by Karankawa Indians, and afterwards by cattle raisers. The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway built through the area in 1870s, naming station for Galveston civic leader and late landowner, Lent Munson Hitchcock (1810-1869). On ...

Landing Place of William Penn

Near here October 27, 1682, William Penn first stepped on American soil. He proceeded to the fort and performed Livery of Seisin. “He took the key, thereof,…we did deliver unto him 1 turf with a twig upon it, a porringer ...

Franklin Baptist Church

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The Franklin Baptist Church was organized December 2, 1842 with 37 members. The founders included Elder Mitchell Bennett, Jesse Moon, James Davis and James Spurlin. Elder Robert Fleming served as pastor during the first year. The first church building was ...

First Presbyterian Church of Taylor

The history of this church can be traced to 1876, when a Presbyterian congregation here was closely associated with the Presbyterian church in Georgetown. The Rev. John McMurray led both congregations, and the earliest written recognition of the Taylor church ...

Main Gate / Flag

1798 – 1808

Main Gate

Report from the Fort

21 January 1802 • Major J.J. Ulrich Rivardi

I was speaking of the eastern Gate which is not finished yet, as I understand by General Irvine that the materials are paid ...

Norfolk County Court House

Begun 1845, occupied 20 July 1846. The architect, Wm. R. Singleton, a Portsmouth native, also designed the old Norfolk City Court House. This building stands on one of the four corners dedicated for public use in 1752 by Lt. Col. ...

Survivor of the Past

You are looking at the top of a restored lime kiln. Many of these were in use during the 1800's but have since become outmoded by large scale production techniques.This double kiln has two circular pots, constructed of schist stone ...

Bell of the U.S.S. Hartford

Bell of the U.S.S. Hartford

Admiral Farragut's Flagship

during the Civil War battles

of New Orleans, April, 1862

and Mobile Bay, August, 1864

"Damn the torpedoes . . . . Full speed ahead"

[ Farragut at Mobile Bay ]

Marker can be reached from the intersection of ...