"Where the Waters Meet"

Called M'Dote or "the place where waters meet" by the Dakota, this area is central to many Dakota creation stories and is significant to Dakota people today. Just west of this site is Pilot Knob, which was used extensively for ...

Evans Road

Named in memory of

2d Lieutenant Ewin V. Evans, D.S.C.

F Co. 16th Infantry

Killed in action in France

July 20, 1918

Marker is on Evans Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Salem (Black River) Presbyterian Church

(Front text)

This house of worship, commonly called Brick Church, was founded by Scotch-Irish settlers in 1759 on land given by Capt. David Anderson. Original log meeting-house was replaced by frame building and named Salem Presbyterian Church (1768). The first ...

Death of General Walker

July 22, 1864. Maj. Gen. W.H.T. Walker, commanding a div. of Hardee's A.C., (CS) while directing his troops toward the battlefield, reached a close proximity to this spot at noon where, pausing to reconnoiter the area, he was shot from ...

Ecor Bienville

1702-1743

This tablet commemorates the engagement between

Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville,

Governor of the Province,

and

The Alibamo Indians.

In 1714 Bienville made a friendly visit to this section.

Marker is at the intersection of Water Avenue and Lauderdale Street, on the ...

Honoring the Memory of O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen

Whose vision, courage, and deep appreciation of building well for tomorrow brought about the creation of Shaker Heights in 1911 and the development of Shaker Square in 1929.

Erected October 6, 1961, by the Shaker Square Association upon the occasion ...

Asbury F. Lever

(1875–1940)

Asbury Francis Lever served in Congress, 1901–1919. On May 8, 1914, the Smith-Lever Act, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Lever, was signed into law, providing for cooperative agricultural extension services to be administered by land-grant colleges. Clemson, ...

Zebulon Baird Vance

In Loving Memory

Zebulon Baird Yance

Friend, Patriot, Philanthropist, Scholar, Orator, Statesman

Loyal friend to the Jewish people whom he honored in his classic lecture

"The scattered nation"

Born near Asheville N.C. May 18, 1836

Elected Governor of North Carolina

1862 - 1864 - 1876

Senator from North ...

First Blendon Presbyterian Church

On this site in 1829 the Presbyterians of Blendon Township built their first church. The land was donated by Timothy Lee for “church and burial” purposes. The Reverend Ebenezer Washburn, buried here, was the first minister. The church was destroyed ...

Fort Hill Plantation Office

John C. Calhoun's Plantation Office was his private sanctuary and housed both his study and library during his twenty-five year residency at Fort Hill. In this building Calhoun developed and set forth his most historically significant constitutional arguments and political ...