Old Quaker Burying Ground

1672

Here April, 1672, George Fox, founder of Quakerism, opened the first General Meeting of Friends in Maryland, marking the beginning of West River Yearly Meeting and its successor, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Site of West River Quaker Meeting House.

Marker ...

Briarwood Presbyterian Church PCA

The Presbyterian Church U.S. began an effort in May 1960 to organize a new Presbyterian Church in the Cahaba Heights area. Rev. Frank M. Barker, Jr. was asked to begin the process and began contacting prospective members in a door ...

War Of The Rebellion Monument

(Front side):

Iowa's tribute to the courage, patriotism, and distinguished service of all her soldiers and sailors who fought in the war of the rebellion 1861- 1865

(Back side):

Designed By Harriet A. Ketcham MT. Pleasant, Iowa.

Located and erected by act of The ...

Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery

McClernand's Division

(Front):Illinois

Battery "D"

1st Regiment Lt. Artillery

1st Division - McClernand

Army of the Tennessee

(Plaque on Back):McAllister's Battery "D"

commanded by

Capt. E. McAllister, wounded.

This battery of four 24 pounders went into action here about 9:00 a.m., April 6, 1863, holding this position until about ...

Dewey Joseph Sherbo, III

Newark Police

In memory of

Police Officer

Dewey J. Sherbo III

November 9, 1997

1603

[ Second Marker : ]

Dedicated to Newark Police Officer

Dewey Joseph Sherbo, III

who sacrificed his life serving his community

November 9, 1997

Marker is on Christopher Columbus Drive, on the left when traveling south. ...

Buckley Park

In memory of

PFC Charles J. Buckley USMC

1949-1968

and of other Americans

who gave their lives in

the Republic of Vietnam

Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Hartwell Lane, on the right when traveling north ...

Jefferson Davis Birthplace

Here the only President of the Confederate States of America was born June 3, 1808, the son of Samuel and Jane Cook Davis. The family moved to Mississippi during his infancy.

Marker is on Jefferson Davis Highway near Pembroke-Fairview Road (Kentucky ...

Fulton Burying Ground

In 1798 Samuel Fulton and his father John, soldiers of the American Revolution, his mother Jane Dills Fulton, brother Thomas, brother-in-law Christopher Huston and their families, made the first permanent settlement on the bank of the Ohio River in present ...

The Umbarger House

Late Nineteenth Century Homelife in a San José Farmhouse

In 1851 David Umbarger, a “forty-niner” from West Virginia, bought 136.5 acres in the Santa Clara Valley. Umbarger built this house on his homestead in the 1870s.

Like many ex-miners who remained in ...

Battle of Wisconsin Heights

On July 21, 1832, during a persistent rainstorm, the 65-year old Sac Indian leader, Black Hawk, led 60 of his Sac and Fox and Kickapoo warriors in a holding action against 700 United States militia at this location. The conflict, ...