Point Plantation / Richmond Plantation

Point Plantation

In 1715, John Vanderhorst purchased 540 acres known as the Point for ?360. So began a long line of ownership by this well-known Colonial family. By 1740, John’s son Joseph and 29 slaves lived at the Point ...

Pierre Esprit Radisson and Medard Groseilliers

These brothers-in-law during the winter of 1659-60 camped with the Ottawa Indians two miles upstream from this point on Lac Court Oreilles (meaning "Lake of the Short Ears" in French). Early French explorers called the Ottawa Indians "Court Oreilles." Radisson's ...

Western Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue

[Freedom Plaza]

Western Plaza consists of a large raised terrace in which part of L'Enfant's original 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. is rendered in black and white stone. At one end of the raised terrace is a pool. At the other ...

Joanna Troutman

On this site in 1835 Joanna Troutman gave to a company of Georgia soldiers on their way to fight for the independence of Texas, a “Lone Star” flag, which she had made and which was later adopted as the Texas ...

Pierates Cruze / Pierates Cruze Gardens

Pierates Cruze

The Pierates Cruze property, once part of the Hilliardsville tract, was a private residence and garden. The property changed hands several times before it was purchased and named by the Osgood family in 1928. The Osgoods transformed ...

Cane Ridge Meeting House

Built by Presbyterians, 1791. Here Barton W. Stone began his ministry, 1796. Famous revival attended by pioneers of many faiths, 1801. Springfield Presbytery dissolved and "Christian Church" launched, June 28, 1804.

Marker is at the intersection of Cane Ridge Road (Kentucky ...

Charles Curtis

Vice-President , United States

Son of the Kansa Nation

Shawnee County Attorney

Congressman

U.S. Senator

Senate Majority Leader

Charles Curtis

1860 - 1936

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Company K, First Pennsylvania Reserves

(Thirteenth Regiment)

(Center Main Plaque):Company K

First Pennsylvania Reserves

(Thirteenth Regiment)

First (McCandless') Brigade

Third (Crawford's) Division

Fifth (Sykes') Corps

Army of the Potomac

Mustered into Pennsylvania service

June 8, 1861

Mustered into Federal service

July 26, 1861

Mustered Out

June 10, 1864

(Center, Lower Plaque):

This monument was erected in 1991 by the Adams ...

Fort Augusta ~ Fort Cornwallis / St. Paul's Episcopal Church

This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort ...

Franklin Loomis Crane

Born Jan. 10, 1808,

Died Nov. 21, 1884.

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Founder of the Topeka Cemetery

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