Fort Hembree

One of the forts where General Winfield Scott's United States Forces gathered the Cherokee before moving them west, stood 3/4 mi. N. W.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Hiawasee Street, on the right when traveling north on ...

French Huguenot Plantation / Freedman's Plantation

French Huguenot Plantation

Abraham Fleury, sometimes called Abraham Fleury Sieur De La Plaine, settled here about 1680. He was one of the first French Huguenot planters in Carolina. The Huguenots, Protestants who escaped the persecution of Catholic France, immigrated with ...

Major Quince L. Brown, USAAF

This U.S. Air Force propeller

is dedicated to

Major Quince L. Brown,

the 78th Fighter Group's

Top Ace of WWII (3-time Ace)

First pilot to strafe with a

P-47 (named Okie), he was

killed in action - Sept. 6, 1944

Courtesy hmdb.org

In Memory of All American Veterans

This memorial honors all American Veterans who, although separated by generations, shared a common, undeniable goal ~ to valiantly protect our country's freedoms.

The memories of these American veterans will continue to live on whenever and wherever democracy exists.

The American ...

South Carolina Women of the Confederacy Monument

[North Face]:

To The

South Carolina Women

Of The Confederacy

1861-1865

—

Reared

By The Men Of Their State

1909-11

[West face]:

In this monument

Generations unborn shall hear the voice

Of a grateful people

Testifying to the sublime devotion

Of the women of South Carolina

In their country's need.

Their unconquerable spirit

Strengthened the thin lines ...

Birthplace of James Monroe

April 28, 1758

July 4, 1831

Fifth president of the

United States 1817- 1825

Governor of Virginia

1799 and 1811

Proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine

December 2, 1823

Declares the Americas

no longer subject to

European colonization

Marker is on James Monroe Highway (Virginia Route 205), on the left when traveling south. ...

Community of Jonah

On 1820s land grant to Nashville colony. Settled 1851 by wagon train from Arkansas, and called Water Valley. In 1884, repeated ill-luck in selecting an acceptable name for Post Office led to ranaming the town Jonah. This was site of ...

Strong Families and Eminent Citizens

City Within a City

The fine rowhouses in this part of the Shaw neighborhood, such as those on this street, were once home to many of the community’s old families and most distinguished citizens.

Charles Hamilton Houston, a national leader ...

Israelite Sunday School / Columbia's First Synagogue

Israelite Sunday School

The Israelite Sunday School, the first Jewish religious school in Columbia and the seventh in the United States, met in a building on this site until 1865. Founded in 1843 to give the city's Jewish children "an ...

Deutschesland Café

City of Vancouver Heritage Building

This unusual building is one of the few surviving Art Deco buildings in downtown Vancouver. Its roofline an exuberant crenelated cornice built in cast concrete and designed in a curvilinear waterfall theme. Downing is best known ...