Shifting Ground

During most of the Civil War (1861-1865), Charles City County lay between two armies: the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia safeguarding the Confederate capital of Richmond and the Union Army of the Potomac occupying the Lower Peninsula. As a result, ...

Federal Signal Station

July 22, 1864. When 15th A.C. troops moved W. from line (at Candler St.) to the vacated Confederate line at the Troup Hurt house (at DeGress Ave.), a signal station was established by Lt. Samuel Edge in a tall pine ...

To the Brave Men Who Rode the Pony Express

1860 -- 1861

The site of

Big Sandy Station

Gift of Andrew Arnott

To the State of

Wyoming

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 191 and Wyoming Route 28 on U.S. 191.

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Elvis Aaron Presley

Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935, the son of Vernon and Gladys Presley. He moved to Memphis in 1948. Soon after signing a contract with Sun Records in 1954 he achieved tremendous popularity. His musical ...

Thomas Jefferson Rusk

Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, Brigadier General of the Army and hero at San Jacinto, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas, United States Senator, he ...

Frontier Justice

On this site, Bridgeport's most sensational court trial occurred June 9th, 1891. Ah Quong Tai, a local Chinese businessman accused of the cannibalistic murder of Poker Tom, a well known Paiute Indian, appeared in court defended by two attorneys, J.C. ...

Carnegie Library

Built 1911

Livermore Public City Library

1911 to 1966

City of Livermore Historic Preservation Landmark Site

Dedicated July 1996

Operated by Livermore Area Recreation and Park District

Nearby Rededication Plaque reads:

Andrew J. Carnegie Building

Constructed 1911

Beautified and rededicated in the

spirit of our American Revolution

July 4th 1977

Livermore ...

Here Albert Einstein Played the Violin

{Marker text in Czech:}

V tomto dom? „U Jedworožce,“ v salonu Berty Fantové, v letech 1911 až 1912 hrával na housle a setnával se zde s p??teli, spisovateli Maxem Brodem a Franzem Kafkou, Profesor Teureticke Fyziky na Pražk? Univerzit?, tv?rce Teurie ...

The First Stone House

1835 • 1916

[symbol of the D.A.R.]

The first stone house erected in the State

of Minnesota by its first Governor,

Gen. Henry Hastings Sibley.

Secured in 1910 for the St. Paul Chapter,

Daughters of the American Revolution

from St. Peter's Parish of Mendota

— by —

Mrs. ...

GAR Building

Built 1852

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on North Second Street, on the right when traveling east.

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