Founding of the Maine Medical Association

This monument commemorates the founding of the Maine Medical Association on April 28, 1853. On that date, and near this site, at what was then the Tontine Hotel, 27 physicians met to organize the association which has existed continually to ...

9 North Front Street

A survival from the 18th century, this house was built in the section of the city known as “Jonestown.”

Designed and built in the 1790’s in the Federal style, 9 North Front Street was once part of a neighborhood of merchants, ...

Braddock, Washington, and Franklin

On April 23, 1755

At a Tavern located near this spot

General Edward Braddock

Colonel George Washington

and

Benjamin Franklin

Met to plan the British

assault on Ft. Dusquesne

During the French & Indian War

This plaque erected by the Kiwanis Club of Frederick

June 8, 1998

Marker can be ...

National Historic Landmark - The Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum

The Flag House was the home of Mary Pickersgill and the site where she sewed the Star-Spangled Banner.

Mary Pickersgill moved into the Flag House in 1807 with her mother, Rebecca Young, and her daughter Caroline, and set up a ...

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1230

The Wolf-Olson VFW Post took its name to commemorate two Sheboygan veterans, Lt. August Wolf (WWI) and Lt. Herman Olson (Spanish-American War). Upon its creation on August 2, 1924, membership was comprised of veterans from these two wars, but today ...

The Livery Stable and the First Catholic Church

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Whitlock's Livery, later the Sperry Livery stable, was across the street from the firehouse. Whitlock ran a stage to the Branchville station before the branch line was built in 1870. The livery stable also boarded horses, including those ...

Homesite of Sarah Wallis

Mayfield Farm

Sarah Armstrong Wallis (1825–1905) was a pioneer in the campaign for women’s voting rights. In 1870 she was elected president of California’s first statewide suffrage organization which in 1873 incorporated as the California State Woman Suffrage Education Association. The ...

Out of the Ashes …

Ridgefield, Connecticut

The Fire District in Ridgefield was organized in 1896 following the devastating fire of 1895. Ex-Governor Phineas Lounsbury was an early benefactor of the Department and the new engine company took his name. The firehouse is also the ...

Fort Curtis

In August 1862 the Union forces occupying Helena erected on this site a redoubt of earth and timbers to serve as the key to the city’s defenses. For Curtis, named for the Union general in command at the time of ...

Development of Motion Pictures

In commemoration of the motion picture research conducted in 1878 and 1879 by Eadweard Muybridge, at the Palo Alto Stock Farm, now the site of Stanford University. This extensive photographic experiment portraying the attitudes of animals in motion was conceived ...