Barbara Fritchie House

“Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country’s flag.”

As the Confederate army marched through Frederick on September 10, 1862, feisty local Unionists—mostly women—showed their defiance by waving the Stars and Stripes. The poet John Greenleaf Whittier ...

Signers of the Declaration

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

This monument honors the three North Carolina delegates to the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. Although Hooper and Penn were reburied here in 1894, they had no direct ties ...

Moorefield Memorial Highway

In Memory of

Charles Henry Moorefield

State Highway Engineer

of South Carolina

1920 - 1935

Marker is on Fairview Road (U.S. 178) south of Two Notch Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Presbyterian Church of Northville

In 1829 former members of the Farmington Church organized this church, originally named the First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth. In 1835-1836 a frame church was built here on land donated by D. L. Cady. A New England-inspired brick church opened ...

For All Who Served

( Waldo, Florida)

(Left )

Police Officer

Waldo

When I start my tour of duty God,

Wherever crime may be,

As I walk the darkened Streets alone,

let me be close to thee.

Please give me understanding

with both the young and old

Let me listen ...

Glebe House of Southwark Parish

Nearby stands the glebe house of the formerly Anglican Southwark Parish that was built soon after 1724. A glebe was a parcel of land owned by a colonial church and farmed to pay the minister’s expenses. This glebe house was ...

Birthplace of Des Moines

Polk County, Iowa

Fort Des Moines No. 2

Established May 1843 — Evacuated March 1846

This cabin is a memorial to the military outpost, Fort Des Moines No. 2, occupied by Company I, First Regiment U. S. Dragoons and Company F First U. ...

Wakefield and Pipsico

Located five miles to the north is Wakefield. Benjamin Harrison patented this land about 1637. His descendents became major landowners and were influential in Virginia and United States politics. Governor Benjamin Harrison was a signer of the Declaration of Independence ...

Buffalo Soldiers

African-American units of the 9th and 10th Cavalry quartered at West Point in 1907, grew to over 100 skilled and disciplined men who trained the cadets. Considered the first “colored regulars” at West

Point. Many local men served in this ...

The First Licensed Ferry

This Boulder Commemorates The first licensed ferry at the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers

1847

The first Pontoon Bridge at Sycamore Street (Now Grand Avenue)

1856

The First Toll Bridge at Court Avenue

1856

Marker is on Grand Avenue, on the right when ...