Drew Ladies Seminary

Drew Ladies Seminary

Or Carmel Collegiate Institute was started by James Raymond in 1848. Daniel Drew took control in 1866 and began an expansion. Instruction ceased here in 1952.

Guideposts 2002

Marker is on Seminary Hill Road 0.1 miles south of Gleneida Court, ...

Military Services Memorial Plaza

[Main Text in Center Brass Plaque]:

In Honor of the men and women who have served their country in the armed services of The United States

Duty Honor Country

[With the exception of the above inscription, the brass plaques list those who contributed ...

Permanence and Grandeur: Building the Federal Triangle

The Original PlanYou are standing on Pennsylvania Avenue, the nation's symbolic Main Street. Known for inaugural and other parades and civic demonstrations, its importance dates back to Pierre L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the city of Washington. L'Enfant designed this broad, ...

History of New Franklin

1816

A River Town Begins

Named for American statesman Benjamin Franklin, the frontier river town of Franklin was established in 1816. The following year, it was designated the county seat of Howard County. In the blink of an eye, Franklin's population was ...

Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

Organized in 1833 by Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott, this society, headquartered here, originally consisted of sixty women who sought to end slavery. After the Civil War, the society supported the cause of the freed slaves.

Marker is at the intersection ...

The Carriage House

Circa 1881

Donated by Forest Burgess

To the city of Phoenix

November, 1976

This carriage house, originally located at 130 East Taylor, was owned by Forest Burgess and is all that remains of the Francis Marion Mognett Ranch which was established in Phoenix in ...

Warrior Mountain

This area was the home to Indians, settlers, people of mixed ancestry and their descendants. Local bluff shelters contain evidence of occupation from Paleo Indian (10,000 BC) through the Mississippian Period (1540 AD). Chief Tuscaloosa (Black Warrior), mentioned by Desoto ...

Petaluma Historical Library and Museum

The "Old Carnegie Library", begun in 1904, served Petaluma from 1906 until the new library was built in 1976. This first major building by local architect Brainerd Jones is noted for its freestanding dome with stained glass, and use of ...

David Salisbury Franks

(c. 1740 - 1793)

Distinguished Jewish officer and aide-de-camp to Gen. Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. Thought to be complicit in Arnold's treason, Maj. Franks was later exonerated. A yellow fever victim, he was buried at Christ Church by ...

Federal Relocation of Italians in America During World II

In Remembrance of the Injustice Caused by

the Federal Relocation of Italians in

America During World War II

From February 24, 1942 to October 12, 1942, nearly 1600 Italian residents of Pittsburg, California, having been declared “enemy aliens,” were unjustly banned from their ...