First State Capitol

1820 - 1823

The first capitol building owned by the State was erected on this site. It was a thirty by forty feet two-story frame structure. The Second and Third Illinois General Assemblies met here, the House on the first floor ...

WMRF

Mifflin County's Oldest

Radio Station

Mifflin County

Historical Site

Circa 1941

Marker is on Main Street near Market Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First School for Lip-Reading

Harriet B. Rogers, assisted by Mary S. Byam, opened here in 1866 the Chelmsford School, the first in America to successfully teach lip-reading and speech to deaf children. In 1867 it was moved to Northampton as the Clarke School for ...

The Walk of History

Prince George's County, MD

The Walk of History

“We walk in the footsteps of those who went before us.”

The 300th anniversary of the founding of Prince George’s County Maryland, was celebrated on April 23rd, 1996. Three hundred years before, in 1696, a ...

St. John’s African Methodist Episcopal Church

St. John’s African Methodist Episcopal Church has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Board Act 1966. This property has been entered in the national Register of Historical Places by ...

Site of Ernst Hotel

Here stood a two-story log building erected in 1819 for Ferdinand Ernst who brought the German colony to Vandalia. Named Union Hall, it was operated as a hotel. After Ernst's death in 1823 it was managed by E.M. Townsend, and ...

Home of Adlai E. Stevenson I

Stevenson House

Home of Adlai E. Stevenson I - Vice President of the United States (1893-1897). He and his bride, Letitia Green, moved to this house following their 1866 wedding and lived here until 1868. Mr. Stevenson practiced law at the ...

The Hunter’s Hill Farm Building

This log building was not part of Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage. In 1929, a fire destroyed one of Jackson’s original barns. To help replace it, The Ladies’ Hermitage Association purchased and moved this log building from the nearby Hunter's Hill property. ...

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church Norfolk Virginia has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission act of 1966. This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by ...

Hospital of St. Vincent dePaul

Founded in 1855, the Hospital of St. Vincent dePaul was Norfolk’s first civilian hospital. Located two blocks south at the corner of Church and Wood strees, the hospital was opened in the home of Ann Plume Behan Herron by eight ...