Buford Hayse Pusser

On December 12, 1937, Buford Hayse Pusser was born in Finger, Tennessee. In 1962 he became Adamsville's chief of police. He was elected sherrif of McNairy County in 1864. Soon his courageous fight against crime exposed him to much danger ...

Yankee Pier

Yankee Pier is one of six docks and piers on Governors Island. It was built to hold large Coast Guard cutters. Cutters are vessels that are at least 65 feet long and can accommodate a crew living on board.

William A. Soderman

Congressional Medal of Honor

On December 17, 1944 Pfc. William A. Soderman, of West Haven, Company K, 9th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division armed with a bazooka, defended a key road junction near Rocherath, Belgium.

As the German artillery barrage pinned down ...

Arrival of the Frigate Arbella

To commemorate

the arrival on June 12, 1630 of the

Frigate Arbella, bringing Governor Winthrop and

the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,

This tablet placed by the

Massachusetts

Daughters of the American Revolution

Marker is on Beacon Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Clemson University

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Clemson University was founded in 1889 as the Clemson Agricultural College of S.C., with its origins in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 creating public land-grant colleges. It was established by a bequest from Thomas Green Clemson ...

Sowerwine Building

Built in 1867 and rebuilt in 1887, this building has continously held dry goods stores: 1898-1920, C. W. Sowerwine; 1920-1925, Osbon Dry Goods; c.1925-1981, Willits Department Store; 1982-2001, Watson's Carpet.

Marker is at the intersection of Logan Street and 9th Street, ...

Mesier Park

Pre-revolutionary house. Home of Mesier family from 1777 to 1890. Acquired by villate 1891.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (New York Route 9D) and South Avenue (New York Route 9D), on the right when traveling west ...

Arsenal Place

1862 CSA 1865

This memorial marks the site of the Arsenal, a unit of the Great Ordnance Works in Selma destroyed by the Union Army April 6, 1865.

These ordnance works stood second only to those of Richmond in the manufacture of ...

Catfish Creek Baptist Church

This Baptist Church, constituted in 1802, has ordained eleven ministers, provided a missionary to Brazil, and has assisted in establishing a number of other churches. The present house of worship, dedicated in 1883 with portico added in 1970, is on ...

Cockspur Island Lighthouse

Situated on an islet off the southeastern tip of Cockspur Island marking the South Channel of the Savannah River, the Cockspur Lighthouse is stands twelve miles east of the port of Savannah. The islet, often covered by high tide, is ...