A Shrine to Justice in California

In honor of the sesquincentennial of the Mariposa County Courthouse and recognition of its continuous use since 1855.

In June 1857 Biddle Boggs vs. Merced Mining Company made legal mining history and the 1861 cases of Moore vs. Smaw and Fremont ...

Shadwell, Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia—was born near this site on 13 April 1743. His father, Peter Jefferson (1708–1757), a surveyor, planter, and officeholder, began acquiring ...

Johnston's Last Bivouac

"I would fight them if they were a million."

(Preface):

After the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Gen. Don Carlos Buell's army occupied Nashville while Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army penetrated to Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. ...

Rodney J. Putz

1939 – 1994

In memory of

Rodney J. Putz

1939 – 1994

This living garden has been

planted in memory of

Rodney J. Putz.

Visionary, Entrepreneur,

Leader, Teacher, Mentor,

Friend, Brother, Father,

Husband, Great Human

Being, and key to the success ...

Bellevue, Home of Sen. Benjamin Harvey Hill

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Benjamin Harvey Hill, one of the first to proclaim the New South industrial rather than agricultural, was born at Hillsborough, Jasper County, Sept. 14, 1823. Reared on a farm at Long Lane, Troup County, graduated with first honors at the ...

Karl Jansky Radio Astronomy Monument

At this location in 1931, Karl Jansky, a Bell Laboratories physicist and radio researcher, recorded for the first time radio signals from beyond the Earth. The source of these signals—radio noise at a wavelength of 14.6 meters—was the center of ...

Birthplace of John Milton Hay

Birthplace of

John Milton Hay

A man of Letters, a Statesman

and a World Renowned Diplomat

of our Country

Marker is on South College Avenue south of East Market Street (a.k.a.: Old State Rd. 160), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Jackson County W.W. I Veterans Memorial

Erected in Memory

of

World War Veterans

of Jackson Co.

by

The Brownstown Study Club

April 6, 1930

Marker is on South Main Street (U.S. 50) north of East Cross Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Spanish on Jekyll Island

Within sight and sound of St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island was ideal for entertaining Spanish visitors to the settlement at Frederica. Major William Horton, resident of the island, received the guests

while Oglethorpe on St. Simons, with cannon booming and ...

Birthplace of Jackie Robinson

First African American in Major League Baseball

Robinson was born here on January 31, 1919 before he and his family moved to California in 1920. After attending U.C.L.A., serving in the U.S. Army, and playing in the Negro American Baseball and ...