Schwartz House / City Hall Built 1895

The house that would one day become City Hall was built for Henry Miller, an active businessman in early Gaithersburg, and his wife Rosa. In 1913, the house was bought by Edward P. Schwartz, a Washington, DC real estate broker. ...

Alfred’s Cabin

A Life of Toil

While the bold and dramatic claim center stage, history is also written in the quite, humble ways...and lives. Alfred Jackson was unique among the enslaved at The Hermitage. Born at The Hermitage to Betty, the cook, and ...

Chaplain Corby of Gettysburg

The first bronze sculpture of Chaplain William Corby by Samuel Murray was dedicated in 1910 on the Gettysburg battlefield by Civil War veterans of the five regiments of the Union's Army Irish Brigade. His statue is on the same boulder ...

Cumberland Road

Vandalia was the western terminus of the Cumberland or National Road which extended eighty feet wide for 591 miles from Cumberland, Maryland through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Illinois construction by the Federal Government began in 1811 and ceased in 1838, ...

Hugh Hammond Bennett

1881-1960

“Father of soil conservation.” First chief of the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1935-1952. Born 4 miles southwest.

Marker is at the intersection of Andrew Jackson Highway (U.S. 74) and Anson High School Road (North Carolina Road 1259), on ...

A Staggering Blow

We had confidence in him that knew no bounds...his loss was irreparable.

Wills Lee, Richmond Howitzers

News of Stonewall Jackson's death stunned the South. "A greater sense of loss and deeper grief never followed the death of mortal man," recorded one of ...

The Public Oven and Home for Strangers

On this site

March 29, 1734

when Savannah was an English colony

stood

the public oven and next door

22-24 Congress St.

The house for strangers

Marker is on West Congress Street near Bull Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Robert K. McLaughlin Home

On this site lived Robert K. McLaughlin, State Treasurer 1820-1823, State Senator 1828-1832, 1836-1837, and Register of the United States Land Office 1837-1845. Here the Governors of Illinois resided when the Legislature was in session. The McLaughlin home was the ...

The First Attleborough Towne House

Was erected near here in 1828

the geographic center

of the town at that time

Committee Selectmen

Noah Claflin Elkanah Briggs

Abijah M. Ide Samual Cushman

Ellis Blackington

Uncle Jacob Capron Builder

Marker is at the intersection of Clifton St and West St on ...

Manly's Battery - Cabell's Battalion

McLaws's Division - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps McLaws's Division

Cabell's Battalion Manly's Battery

First North Carolina Artillery

Two Napoleons, Two 3 inch Rifles

July 2 Took position here 3.30 p.m. and became actively engaged. At 5 p.m. advanced to Peach Orchard and ...