Birthplace of Lucy Ware Webb Hayes / Lucy Webb Hayes, 1831 - 188

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Birthplace of Lucy Ware Webb Hayes

First Lady Lucy Ware Webb Hayes was born in this four-room Federal Vernacular house in 1831. Well educated for her time, she attended local schools, took classes in the preparatory department of Ohio ...

Doctor Still’s Birthplace

Andrew Taylor Still, physician and founder for Osteopathic medicine was born here in a log cabin on August 6, 1828. The cabin now stands on the campus of Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery in Kirksville, Missouri, the first American ...

Savannah, Birthplace of Prince Hall Masonry in Georgia

Georgia's first and second Prince Hall lodges, Eureka Lodge No. 1, and Hilton Lodge No. 2, F. & A.M. were organized at Savannah on February 4, 1866 by Rev. J. M. Simms, having received their warrants from the Prince Hall ...

Birthplace of the Martini

On this site in 1874, Julio Richelieu, bartender, served up the first martini when a miner came into his saloon with a fistful of nuggets and asked for something special. He was served a "Martinez Special." After three or four ...

Big Bull Falls • Birthplace of Wausau

In the early 1800s, timber supplies were coming to an end in the eastern United States. The Westward Expansion—the settlement of the prairies and mountainous regions west of the Mississippi—was driving the hunger for more timber with which to build ...

Birthplace of Darius M. Couch

Two miles east

Birthplace of

Darius M. Couch

Major General, U. S. A.

Commander 2d Corps, Army of

Potomac, at Fredericksburg

and Chancellorsville, 1862-63

Marker is on Sodom Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Birthplace of William R. "Daddy" George

Founder of George Junior Republic

Birthplace of

William R. "Daddy" George

1866-1936

Founder of

George Junior Republic

Marker is at the intersection of Asbury Road (County Route 108) and West Dryden Road, on the right when traveling north on Asbury Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Birthplace for Equal Suffrage for Women in Florida

“ The population of Fellsmere is of a high type of intelligence, with lofty ideals and wise execution. Progressive in all things, perhaps no better indication of the fact may be given than the unanimous vote of the town granting ...

Savannah: Colonial Capital and Birthplace of

Representative Government in Georgia

In March 1750, the Georgia Trustees in London resolved to allow colonists to elect a representative assembly to meet in Savannah, Georgia's colonial capitol. Sixteen delegates met on January 15,1751, for a twenty-four day session. Representative government ...

Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement

Four Students at North Carolina A & T State University conducted the first lunch counter sit-in on February 1, 1960 at the Woolworth Store.

Franklin McCain

Joseph McNeil

Ezell Blair, Jr.

David Richmond

"Sometimes taking a stand for what is undeniably right means taking a ...