Fred Waring

(1900-1984)

World-renowned choral arranger and band leader, Waring was born and raised in Tyrone. In 1919, while attending Penn State, he started “Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians,” a popular musical group that entertained for seven decades on stage, screen, radio, and ...

The Mouth of Pimmit Run

Thomas Lee patented land in this area in 1719. Here at the head of navigation of the Potomac River, he established an official tobacco inspection warehouse in 1742, the beginning of Arlington's first industrial complex. After 1794, Philip Richard Fendall ...

Elmsford Veterans Memorial

They Died That We Might Live

They Rest In Honored Glory

In Honor Of The Men and Women Of

Elmsford Who Served Their Country

In World Wars I and II

Korean War Vietnam War and War on Terror

1950 Korean War 1953

George Brown 8/18/1950

1957 Vietnam ...

Site of Cassville

Named For Lewis Cass

County seat Cass County 1832-1861. First decision Supreme Court of Georgia, 1846. Name changed to Manassas 1861. Town burned by Sherman 1864 and never rebuilt.

Marker is on Cassville Road NW, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Jefferson County War Memorial

[Middle Panel - Top]

Dedicated

To the memory of these Fallen Comrades

who, in answering the call to arms,

paid the Price of Freedom.

[Left Panel]

World War I

Harrison B. Buckner • William Buckner • Earl E. Cleek • Carl J. Coots • George Crank • ...

Auburn Post Office

Historical Landmark

P.O. First Mail Service – 1849

First P.O. Established July 21, 1853

Daily Mail Service June 1888

P.O. Consolidated Dec. 30, 1919

Station A – Here Since Late 1870’s

Community Project

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Lincoln Way and Sacramento Street.

Courtesy ...

A Future President's Home

From Adversity, Strength

Andrew Jackson took on life with grit and determination. Both served him well. Through persistence, ambition, and luck, the boy born into a struggling immigrant family and

orphaned at age fourteen, would become a respected lawyer, judge, businessman, ...

Site of the Birth of New York State

Site

Of The

County Court House

Where

On July 10 1776 The

Provincial Congress

Proclaimed

The Passing Of The

Dependent Colony

And The Birth Of

The

Independent State

Of New York

Erected by the White Plains Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1910

Marker is at the intersection of South Broadway and Mitchell Place, on the ...

Madison Grant Forest and Elk Refuge

Dedicated to the Memory of Madison Grant

Conservationist, author, anthropologist, a founder of the Save-the-Redwoods League.

This area of 1600 acres, habitat of the last surviving herd in California of Roosevelt Elk is established as a memorial by

· De Forest Grant

· ...

The First Hermitage

Worlds Apart, Side by Side

These log buildings tell a remarkable American story unlike any other. From 1804 to 1821, as a two-story farmhouse and kitchen outbuilding, the First Hermitage housed future United States President Andrew Jackson and his family. Here, ...