Wainwright Trust Building

Built c. 1880, the Wainwright Trust Company was located here until the 1930s. The county's first abstract company, Wainwright and Hall, was forerunner to the Trust Company formed in 1901

Marker is on Conner Street (Indiana Route 32/38), on the left ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules On Overton Park and I-40

1956 - 2006

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of Tennessee could not go through Overton Park to build I-40 based on environmental issues. This east-west interstate now follows I-240 around the north side of Memphis. It ...

Phillips Fire

On July 27, 1894 forest fires racing through dry timber slashings descended on Phillips from three directions. Within a matter of hours the city of 2500 persons lay in smoldering ruins. More than 400 homes, the business district, a new ...

R. R. Stephenson Block

A single-step parapet sports the name R. R. Stephenson, the judge and politician who built this block in 1888. Two storefronts housed the gas company and a brother's plumbing business. Since 1933 it has been home to taverns.

Marker is on ...

Burial Site

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . this Day there was two men Buried from our Regt.”

- Lt. Jonathan Burton, October 4, 1776

This small stone, engraved “N. Richardson of Staddard Eng died 1760,” may mark the only identified ...

Howard's 4th A.C. Line

These troops [US], having crossed the river at & near Power’s Ferry July 12, 13, 1864, occupied an intrenched line on this ridge facing S.E. until the 18th ~ the rt. resting on the river, the left near Crossroads Church. ...

General William Tecumseh Sherman

1820–1891

Famous Civil War General. His brilliant military strategy was the major force to end the Civil War and preserve the Union.

Commanding General of the United States Army, 1869–1883.

Birthplace, Lancaster, Ohio.

Marker is on North Broad Street north of Main Street (U.S. ...

Kill Devil Hills Fire Rescue Memorial

This memorial is placed in tribute and to honor all of the Kill Devil Hills fire and rescue personnel who have and continue to faithfully and honorably serve the citizens and visitors of Kill Devil Hills

Dedicated this 11 day of ...

Birmingham - Southern College

Created in 1918 on this site

by merger of two colleges:

Southern University

a Methodist college

founded in 1856 at Greensboro.

Birmingham College

founded by Methodist as

N. Alabama Conference College

on this site in 1898.

Marker is on Arkadelphia Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

New York Information Technology Center

55 Broad St

This 1960s American office building has been ripped apart and rewired with a 21st-century communications infrastructure that can instantly connect its tenants with sites around the world. Famous in the 1980s as the high finance offices of ...