James Whitcomb Riley

"The Hoosier Poet"

In Loving Memory

James Whitcomb Riley

"The Hoosier Poet"

Born in Greenfield Indiana October 7,1853

Died in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 22,1916

A friend of "Bill Nye"

A visitor at "Buck Shoals" on the French Broad River near this Church

Erected by Doctor Joe Shelby Riley

Cousin ...

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

Soldier, Planter,

Author, Statesman

Born June 3, 1808

Fairview Kentucky

Died December 6, 1889

New Orleans, Louisiana

"He was a Statesman with clean hands and pure heart who served his people faithfully and well from budding manhood to hoary age"

Marker ...

John Hunt

For whom Huntsville was named lived in a cabin near this spring about the year 1805.

Marker can be reached from Westside Square.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Fort Jay Theater

Governors Island

On Governors Island, a boat ride away from the activities of New York City, entertainment could be hard to come by. Nevertheless, performances were a part of life on the Island for many years. Early performances took place ...

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 - 1790)

Printer, author, inventor, diplomat, philanthropist statesman, and scientist. The eighteenth century's most illustrious Pennsylvanian built a house in Franklin Court starting in 1763, and here he lived the last five years of his life.

Marker is on ...

Anthony J. Drexel

(1826 - 1893)

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Drexel created the world's first trans-Atlantic banking network from an office first located here. It financed many U.S. railroads and businesses of the industrial era. Founder of Drexel University.

Marker is on 3rd Street, ...

Keowee / John Ewing Colhoun

Keowee

2¼ miles west is the site of Keowee built by John Ewing Colhoun as his upcountry seat in 1792. His sister, Mrs. Andrew Pickens, lived nearby at Hopewell. His daughter, Floride, married her cousin, John C. Calhoun, and lived at ...

John Paul Jones Memorial

[North Face inscriptions - above and beneath Captain Jones' statue:]

John Paul Jones

1747-1792

First to compel foreign man-of-war to strike colors to the Stars and Stripes.

[South Face inscriptions - above and beneath a bas relief rendering of Captain Jones raising the United ...

John C. Calhoun Memorial Highway

Named in honor of John Caldwell Calhoun, (1782-1850), the Old South's most admired statesman and profound philosopher and America's most influential spokesman for state's rights.

From 1808 to 1810 he served his state as a member of the S.C. House of ...

Henry Bourne Joy and the Lincoln Highway

This monument commemorates the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental automobile road, and Henry Bourne Joy, the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association (1913). Joy, also president of the Packard Motor Car Company, is sometimes called the father of the ...