Marion at Port’s Ferry / Asbury at Port’s Ferry

Marion at Port’s Ferry. Port’s Ferry, 3 miles NE on the Pee Dee, was owned and operated by Frances Port (c. 1725–1812), widow of Thomas Port, who was a member of the Provincial Congress from Prince Frederick’s Parish. This was ...

United States War Veterans Memorial

Dedicated

to the memory of all

United States War Veterans

June 25, 1939

Dedicatory Committee

United Spanish War Veterans

Veterans of Foreign Wars

American Legion

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Pilot Knob Road (County Road 31) and Acacia Boulevard.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Richard Blankenship

Richard Blankenship, Revolutionary War Soldier, was a member of Major James Robertson's company of New River Valley volunteers who fought at the Battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 1774. He lived on a 33 acre farm 8 mi. southeast, at ...

Swissair Flight 111 Memorial

Bayswater

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The communities of Peggys Cove and Blandford were central to the recovery operation following the crash of Swissair Flight 111. The Whalesback and Bayswater Beach sites were chosen for their proximity to those communities and because they ...

Cooper's Academy / Bethesda Methodist Church

[Front]:

Cooper’s Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until 1927, and a public school 1927-1958. Founded by Moses Cooper, H.J. Cooper, and Ada E. Martin, it was first called Cooper’s Academy, ...

5th Ward Honor Roll

To Honor Those Men

And Women Of The Fifth

Ward Who So Valiantly

Served Their Country

In World War II

Dedicated Sept. 3, 1946

Adams, W. • Adriance, H. F. • Ahrens, H. S. • Aide, H. • Allen, C. ...

Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church

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This church was founded in 1867 on land donated by Moses and Matilda Watson. It was the first African American church in the Bloomingvale community and was organized by trustees Orange Bruorton, Augusta Dicker, Sr., Fred Grant, Esau Green, Fortune ...

Poughkeepsie Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Now the trumpet summons us again – not as a call to ear arms, though arms we need, not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, ...

New York Stock Exchange

Landmarks of New York

This central market place for the purchase and sale of securities was founded in 1792 by merchants who met daily beneath a buttonwood tree that grew nearby. Completed in 1903 from designs by George B. Post, ...

Origin of Milford (Illinois)

Old Hubbard Trail

This tablet, erected in the Spring of 1936, marks the Old Hubbard Trail, which forded Sugar Creek at this point. In this angle of ground between the ford and the trail there stood 100 years ago a pioneer ...