Sociedad La Union Marti~Maceo

When local segration forced the withdrawal

of Afro-Cubans from El Club Nacional Cubano,

an organization of black and white Cubans

involved in Cuban independence, Afro-Cuban

cigarmakers founded a society in 1900 as Los

Libres Pensadores de Marti y Maceo. Ruperto

Pedroso, well known Afro-Cuban patriot, was

among ...

Vicente Martinez-Ybor

Pioneer of the Cigar Industry in Florida and Founder of Ybor City

Born in Valencia, Spain on September 7, 1818 and died in Ybor City on December 14, 1896 and buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in downtown Tampa.

In 1853 at an early ...

Albert Bushnell Hart

Distinguished scholar and historian, Harvard graduate and member of its faculty for sixty years, was born nearby, July 1, 1854, and lived here six years. He died July 16, 1943, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Marker is at the intersection of Lake Road ...

Donner Party

1846 – 1847

The face of this rock formed the north end and the fireplace of the Murphy cabin. General Stephan W. Kearny, on June 22, 1847, buried, under the middle of the cabin the bodies found in the vicinity. Following ...

Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Rectory

In the fall of 1878 the Sisters of St. Joseph came to Prescott. Money was raised in the community for a hospital to be run by the sisters and by 1881 the hospital had been completed on North Marina Street. ...

Commandant's Quarters

This building was one of eleven built in 1833 for the United States Detroit Arsenal at Dearbornville. A walled compound, a 360 foot square, was erected to store military supplies on the frontier. Constructed of red brick in the Federal ...

Stuart and Mosby

Here on the evening of August 22, 1862, General J. E. B. Stuart raided General Pope’s headquarters. Unable to burn the railroad bridge because of a heavy thunderstorm, Stuart withdrew his troops as well as 300 Federal prisoners and Pope’s ...

Death of Stewart

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

The small monument in the field commemorates the death of Lt. Col. James Stewart (Stuart) of the Second Battalion of Guards. During hand-to-hand fighting, Captain John Smith of the 1st Maryland Regiment cut down Stewart with ...

Alton Stewart

1897-1929

Aviation pioneer. His aerial shows helped popularize flying in N.C. Died in crash, Dec. 25, 1929. Grave 3 blks. W.

Marker is at the intersection of South McKinley Street (North Carolina Route 55) and West Hamer Street, on the right when ...

Hartwood Presbyterian Church

The Writing on the Wall

This is Hartwood Presbyterian Church, which Federal troops occupied during the Civil War. They removed and burned all the woodwork, leaving only the bare plaster walls. On November 24, 1862, Capt. George Johnson, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, ...