Birthplace of Tench Francis, Jr.

(1731-1800)

Nearby is the site of "Fausley", the birthplace of Tench Francis, Jr, colonial businessman, revolutionary patriot, financier and father of the United States Navy Supply Corps. A successful merchant in the last decades before independence, Tench Francis, Jr. contributed heavily ...

The Talbot Resolves

May 24, 1774

Two years before the Declaration of Independence, the citizens of Talbot County met on this site to protest Great Britian's closing of the Port of Boston, and resolved "to act as friends to liberty and the general interest ...

Veterans Memorial Building

Henry H. Meyers, Architect, 1928

In the early 1920s Alameda County voters approved a special tax to construct buildings that would honor war veterans and provide a meeting place for their organizations. The City of Berkeley contributed the land for this ...

Berkeley City Hall

Bakewell and Brown, Architects, 1908

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

This was Berkeley’s City Hall from 1909 to 1977. It sits on the site of the Town Hall that burned in 1904. It remains a source of civic pride ...

Lee Comes to Leesburg

Conference at Harrison Hall

On the afternoon of September 4, 1862, five days after the Confederate victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, throngs of well-wishers lined Leesburg's streets, including King Street behind you, to welcome the threadbare but jubilant Army ...

Studio Building 1905-06

City of Berkeley Landmark No. 22

First home of the

California College of Arts and Crafts

Marker is at the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Addison Street, on the left when traveling south on Shattuck Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Forbes Flour Mill

This is all that remains of the four-story stone flour mill built in 1854 by James Alexander Forbes. The town that grew around this building was first called Forbes Mill, then Forbestown, and finally Los Gatos.

Marker can be reached from ...

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

( Holy Congregation House of God )

Founded 1750

The Cradle of Reformed Judaism

In The United States, 1824

Jews who settled in Charleston as early as

1695 worshipped informally until the founding

of this congregation in 1750. First synagogue

Newtown Borough Hall

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 24

On April 16, 1838, the village of Newtown received its own municipal identity, distinct from that of Newtown Township, when it was formally chartered as a borough by the Pennsylvania Legislature.

In 1854, the Borough ...

Two Days of Battle at Jonesboro

In this vicinity were fought the engagements that ended the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Confederate forces under Gen. Hardee, endeavoring to defend the remaining R.R. to Atlanta, against outnumbering Federal troops, Aug. 31 & Sept. 1 were forced to withdraw ...