James Mercer Langston Hughes

One of the most recognized figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902 and moved to Cleveland by the time he was in high school. An avid traveler, he credited his years ...

General Joseph Wheeler

Soldier ~ Statesman ~ Patriot

"Trusted, honored, and loved by the people of Alabama for his splendid character and distinguished service as a citizen and soldier.

Born September 10, 1836, in Augusta, Georgia, Joseph Wheeler graduated from West Point in 1859, ...

John C. West Boyhood Home

This farm was the boyhood home of John Carl West (b. 1922), governor of South Carolina 1971-75. West, a graduate of the Citadel and the University of S.C., served as an intelligence officer in World War II, as state senator ...

Major Peter Jones

Site of

Trading Station

of

Major Peter Jones.

About 1675.

Owner of Peters Point.

Afterwards Petersburg.

Frances Bland Randolph Chapter

D.A.R.

1909.

Marker is at the intersection of North Market Street and Grove Avenue, on the left when traveling north on North Market Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Major General John Sedgwick

This memorial including ordnance

used in the Mexican and Civil Wars and

given by the government of the

United States is in honour of

Major General John Sedgwick

Commander of the Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

who gave his life for the

preservation of the Union.

A skilled ...

Gen. John Burgoyne

as prisoner of war was

entertained in this house

on night of October 22,

1777 while being taken from

Battle of Saratoga to Boston.

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street (U.S. 9) and Church Street, on the right when traveling south on Broad ...

Dr. Chapmon Powell’s “Medicine House” and W.J. Houston Plantatio

About 1826, Dr. Chapmon Powell erected a log cabin beside the Shallowford Trail near this site. His Indian patients called it the “Medicine House.” His cabin had been relocated onto this site by 1863 when Powell’s son-in-law, Washington Jackson Houston ...

James Danforth Quayle

On August 19,1988, this beautiful court house square was host to 12,500 residents and visitors gathered to witness the first rally of the successful presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush and Huntington's favorite son and 44th Vice President of ...

Big Lime and Big Injun

The Greenbrier Limestone in the quarry represents the “Big Lime and Big Injun Sand” of the driller. Fish-egg like (oölitic) zones in the “Big Lime” and the basal sandy formation, the “Big Injun,” produce oil and natural gas in West ...

Jacob Broom

In honored memory

of

Jacob Broom, Signer

of

United States Constitution

by the

Delaware State Society, NSDAR,

in

This bicentennial year 1987

Marker can be reached from 2nd Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org