Geology of the Dakota County Region

Hasting lies just south and East of the last glaciation. About 20,000 years ago a lobe of ice, called the Superior lobe, advanced from the Lake Superior basin and crossed the ancient bedrock valley of the Mississippi River between St. ...

Birthplace of Charles Willson Peale

First Free School of Queen Anne’s County erected near here 1724. Its sixth master was Charles Peale, father of the distinguished portrait painter and museum founder—born 1741 in living quarters near the school.

Luther Martin, renowned Barister, was among ...

Site of Goldsborough House

Circa 1798

By that year, a 2-story brick house, measuring 40 by 24 feet and described as “not yet fully complete,” was built on a 4-acre lot of “Chesterfield,” deeded in 1792 from Mary Nicholson to her daughter Henrietta. Henritta’s husband, ...

Early Finnish Pioneers

1892.

Dedicated to the memory of the early Finnish pioneers who helped to build this community.

The Minnesota Finnish-American Historical Society, Chapter 14, Hibbing, Minnesota.

1957

Marker is on 1st Avenue south of 31st Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Home of Governor Telfair

Here stood the home of Edward Telfair. He was one of the group of young patriots led by Joseph Habersham, who broke open the British powder magazine at Savannah on May 11, 1775 and carried away the powder for future ...

In Honor of Leslie Coffelt

White House policeman

who gave his life in defense of

the President of the United States

here at the Blair House, November 1, 1950

"For loyalty, bravery and heroism

beyond the call of duty."

presented by National Sojourners

in commemoration ...

Fort St Simons

Was erected on this

site in 1736 by British Forces

under Oglethorpe. During

the Spanish invasion of 1742

the English abandoned this

fort which the Spaniards

then occupied as their

headquarters.

W.P.A. D.A.C. 1936

Marker is on Ocean Blvd near 8th St., on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy ...

Buffalo Trace

On July 16th, 1773, James McAfee, George McAfee, Robert McAfee, James McCoun Jr., Samuel Adams and Hancock Taylor following the Buffalo Trace from Big Bone lick, crossed the Kentucky River at this point, and made the first survey upon it.

Here ...

Fort Mississauga is a National Historic Site

an impotant part of Canada's story!

• Mississauga Point was the location of a Neutral First Nation fishing settlement by the 15th century.

• The area was under the control of the Seneca Nation during the late 17th century, and it became ...

Dudley Knox Center for Naval History

Dudley Wright Knox, Commodore, USN

Dudley W. Knox, an 1896 graduate of the Naval Academy, had numerous tours afloat during the first twenty-five years of his career, including service in the first of the Navy's destroyers. He later played an ...