Birthplace of Democratic Party Rooster

The use of the rooster as a Democratic party symbol originated in Greenfield in the 1840 campaign. The rooster was later adopted by the state and national Democratic parties.

Marker is on East Main Street (U.S. 40) west of Apple Street, ...

Campus Martius

Ohio Company fortress

protected first settlers

and Northwest

Territory seat of

government from

Indians. 1788-1795.

The Rotary Club of Marietta

Marking a Place in History with Service Since 1921

Marker is at the intersection of Second Street and Washington Street (Ohio Route 7), on the right when traveling ...

Federal Headquarters

When Federal forces occupied Americus in 1865, the Colonel in charge selected this beautiful Greek Revival house as his headquarters.

The house is believed to have been built circa 1855 by Willis A. Hawkins, associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. ...

Home of Martin Murphy, Jr.

Martin Murphy, Jr. arrived in California with his family in 1844 in the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada. The founder of Sunnyvale, he constructed here his house of pre-fabricated lumber brought around the Horn in 1849. Members ...

Kennedy-Martin-Stelle Farmstead

The Rev. Samuel Kennedy established a classical school here in 1764. Col. Ephraim Martin lived here during the Revolutionary War. The Stelle family and their descendants resided here 1794 - 1940.

Marker is on King George Road, on the right when ...

Robert F. Kennedy Speech on Death of Martin L. King

Here on the evening of April 4, 1968, Kennedy came to address a large crowd of mostly African Americans in his bid for Democratic Party nomination for president of U.S. Instead, visibly shaken, he gave an impromptu speech about the ...

Elkhart County Courthouse

Side 1:

Elkhart County was formed by the Indiana General Assembly 1830; the first county seat was located in Concord Township. County commissioners relocated the county seat to Goshen 1831. Jacob Studebaker, Goshen, designed first brick courthouse, completed 1833. Barrows ...

Well, Adobe Hospital and Hospital Steward's Quarters

In 1868 post surgeon William H. Forwood reported on the condition of the drinking water:

The water is brought by wagon from the creek and placed in barrels in the yards... There are several wells here from 15 to ...

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

At this site will be erected the Martin Luther King, Jr .Memorial. The memorial will embody the man, the movement and the message. It will honor this 20th century visionary who brought about change through the principles of nonviolence and ...

Early Ohio Artists

[Side A:]

Born in Massachusetts in 1805, Sala Bosworth spent all but nineteen years of his eighty-five years in Washington County. After studying at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, he returned to the county to paint many full ...