5th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry

Duryee Zouaves

Erected by the State of New York

September 29, 1906,

to commemorate the heroic services of the

5th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry

(Duryee Zouaves)

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Here, about 4 p.m. August 30, 1862, the regiment, 482 strong, supported ...

The First Presbyterian Church

Organized by the Rev. Washington McKnight, rector of Richmond Academy, in 1804. Met at first at site of St. Paul`s Church, incorporated by the Georgia General Assembly and given a lot on the common by Richmond Academy Trustees. Cornerstone of ...

Site of C.W. Morris Cotton Gin

As was the case in so many small Texas towns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the cotton gin in Edom was a major element in the economy. First opened at this site in 1918 by Ro Dike, ...

Copp’s Hill Burying Ground

Freedom Trail

Stroll round among the graves . . . lean on the free stone slab which lies over the bones of the Mathers . . . read the epitaph of stout William Clark, ‘Despiser of Sorry Persons and little Action’ ...

Garden Court Street

North End

This street was long noted for its gardens and governors. At No. 4, opposite the site of Governor Hutchinson’s mansion, lived one of Boston’s “Irish governors,” John J. (“Honey Fitz”) Fitzgerald, ward boss, congressman and mayor. His daughter, Rose ...

Orange County Civil War Memorial

1903

Presented by the Government

to Williamson Post No. 364, G. A. R.,

and by the Post to Orange County,

in Memory of Her Soldiers of

1861 - - - 1865

Marker is at the intersection of Court Street (West Side) and West ...

Evergreen Cemetery

Established 1910

Many Civil War veterans are buried at Evergreen Cemetery in addition to the founding families of Fort Lauderdale including the Stranahans (who built Stranahan house on SE 6th Avenue), Bryans, Kings, Cromarties (the maiden name of Ivy Julia Stranahan ...

Museum of Coral Springs History

Coral Ridge Properties built the City's first real estate office in 1964 at the intersection of Route 441 and Wiles Road, just outside the City limits. This 30-by-20 foot single-room wooden structure displayed maps and plats of subdivisions, none of ...

Site Of The Stand In The Schoolhouse Door / Foster Auditorium, 1

Foster Auditorium is the site of the June 11, 1963, “stand in the schoolhouse door” by Governor George C. Wallace in defiance of a court order requiring The University of Alabama to admit African-American students Vivian Malone and James Hood. ...

Site of United States Courthouse

[In English Translation:]

The United States Courthouse, which stood on this site from 1892 to 1936, was the scene of hundreds of arraignments, hearings and trials during the Mexican Revolution. Some of these legal proceedings involved Magónistas, or radical Liberal Party ...