Hoppy Lockhart Welcome Center

For 40 years of exemplary service to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation this facility is dedicated to the memory of Hoppy Lockhart.

By his unyielding commitment to the safety of the motorists of eastern Oklahoma, he set the highest standards in ...

Andrew Hartley Payne

(1907 - 1977)

Andrew Hartley Payne (1907 - 1977) won the 1928 Great Transcontinental Footrace, began in Los Angeles 3/4/28, ended 3,422.3 miles later in NYC 5/26/28.

Andy, of Cherokee ancestry, graduated from Foyil High School, served 36 years as Clerk of ...

Jose Marti

Apostle of Cuban Freedom

Born in Havana, Cuba, on January 28, 1853.

Patriot, writer, poet, lawyer, and orator.

A lover of liberty and justice, his ideas and personal example

were a universal inspiration for the world as well as for the

Cuban people. He perished ...

The Kitchen Quarter

The Banks House

The building before you is a rare example of an original slave quarter. Milled lumber and the exclusive use of cut nails suggests that it was built around 1840 to provide two slave families with a workroom and ...

VFW Post 3656 Charter

By the authority of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States be it known that Comrades

[Charter Members - see photos]

having served honorably in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Air Force of the United States of America in ...

Church Quarter

The two-room log house, a rare survivor of a once-common house type, was built about 1843 probably by Sarah Thornton, whose father-in-law John Thornton acquired the property in 1790. On 16 July 1862, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and ...

Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery

Sherman's Division

(Front):Illinois

Battery B

1st Regiment Lt. Artillery

5th Division - Sherman

Army of the Tennessee

(Plaque on Back):Taylor's Battery "B"

Commanded by

Capt. Sam'l E. Barrett.

Opened fire from this position April 6, 1862 and held it from about 7:30 until 10:00 a.m. when the Battery retired ...

Arthur Fort, 1750-1833

Arthur Fort, Sr., a representative of Wilkinson County, introduced the Bill in the Georgia Legislature to carve a new county out of Wilkinson County territory which became an Act on December 14, 1809, thus Twiggs County was created. After the ...

Ambush Started Here

The militia column, on its way to the relief of Fort Stanwix, marched into this ravine, August 6, 1777, and were ambushed by Loyalists and British. The attackers came out of hiding in woods on the west, the south and ...

Baltimore City Fire Department

Dedicated to the Members of the Baltimore City Fire Department, Past, Present and Future.

Marker is at the intersection of Gay Street and E. Lexington Street, on the left when traveling north on Gay Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org