First Lieutenant Harry L. Martin

Birthplace

of

First Lieutenant

Harry

L.

Martin

- Recipient -

Congressional

Medal of Honor

USMC - Iwo Jima

March 26, 1945

"Greater Love

Hath No Man Than This -

That A Man Lay Down His Life

For A Friend"

Marker is at the intersection of East Mansfield Street and Washington Square, on the left ...

Washington Arms Apartments

In commemoration of

Washington’s stand against

the British, under Howe,

near this site during

the Battle of White Plains.

October 28, 1776.

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Battle Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Washington Avenue.

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Four Farthing or Town Point

Here at a cedar tree was the western limit of the fifty acres constituting the original town of Norfolk. The land was bought in 1682 as a port for lower Norfolk County from Nicholas Wise, Jr. for “tenn thousand pounds ...

Sacred Heart Chapel - White Marsh

(Formerly St. Francis Borgia)

Sacred Heart Chapel was built about 1741 by Jesuit Priests on the property known as White Marsh. The priests turned their 2,000 acre bequest into a thriving plantation. During the 1780's the American clergy met several times ...

The Artillery

June 1, 1781

Once a parallel was dug, troops could move artillery forward and place cannon in position to batter the ememy garrison. Greene's six-pounders (guns firing six pound cannon balls) were placed here on platforms that sat on earthen fortificatons ...

Clare A. Briggs – Cartoonist

Clare A. Briggs was born in Reedsburg on August 5, 1875 to Mr. and Mrs. William Pardee Briggs.

At an early age Briggs became a sketch artist, and in 1896 he accepted a job as an illustrator with the St. ...

Rosenwald School at Cartersville

Cartersville, Virginia

Julius Rosenwald, a former president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., continued the efforts made by numerous philanthropists to bring education to African Americans in the South. During the early 1900s, funding for schools was scarce; the South had half ...

Grant’s Headquarters

Site of hq. of Gen. Ulysses

Simpson Grant in June,

1862. In mid-July Grant

removed to plantation

home of F. E. Whitfield, Sr.,

about 1 mi. S. of Corinth.

Marker is on Jackson Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Carter Hall

Col. Nathaniel Burwell, great-grandson of Robert "King" Carter, constructed Carter Hall in the mid-1790s after moving here from Tidewater Virginia. Edmund Randolph Governor of Virginia, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Secretary of State, died here in 1815 and was buried ...

D’Aboville’s Headquarters

Colonel D’Aboville set up headquarters here near his artillery park. Plantation buildings then existed belonging to Secretary Nelson’s “Quarter.”

As ranking artillery officer in Rochambeau’s command, D’Aboville played a major role in the Siege in which superior cannon fire counted heavily.

Marker ...