Birthplace of Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author of 85 books, one of them "The Good Earth," for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature (1932), was born here at Stulting Place, June 26, 1892. In 1938, she achieved further distinction when ...

The Birthplace of Charles Carroll, Barrister

The birthplace of Charles Carroll, Barrister, 1723 - 1783, colonial patriot and author of Maryland Bill of Rights. Built in 1722 by his father, Dr. Charles Carroll, Chirurgeon. Moved from its original location at Main and Conduit Streets through popular ...

Birthplace of the Pennsylvania Rifle

Martin Meylin, 1670–1749, gunsmith of Switzerland settled here in the Pequea Valley in 1710 and made in this gun shop the earliest known Pennsylvania or so called Kentucky Rifle.

He was the first of a group of Lancaster County rifle makers ...

Birthplace of Lou Gehrig

1903 - 1941

Lou Gehrig

known as the

"Pride of the Yankees"

was born at this location

on June 19th, 1903.

In his amazing feat of playing

2130 consecutive games, Lou

became known as "The Iron Horse"

to the baseball world. ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson Monument

[Carving Side]

"I was born in So Carolina, as I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about one mile from the Carolina Road X of the Waxhaw Creek" Andrew Jackson to J.H. Witherspoon, August 11, 1824.

Jackson said ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson

Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born.

Marker is at the ...

Birthplace of Washington’s Mother

Seven tenths mile west is Epping Forest. The land was patented by Colonel Joseph Ball, who died there in 1711. His daughter, Mary Ball, mother of George Washington, was born there in 1707/8. The house incorporates parts of the original ...

Birthplace of the Army Chemical Corps

Soon after the United States entered the First World War in 1917, the American University’s offer of its campus and buildings for war work was accepted.

The permanent buildings and part of campus were turned over to the Bureau of ...

Robert Fulton Birthplace

The inventor and painter was born here Nov. 14, 1765. Famous for his steamboat "Clermont", he also invented canal machinery, a "diving boat", and torpedoes.

Marker is at the intersection of Robert Fulton Highway Rt 222 and Swift Road, on the ...

Caroline Quiner "Ma" Ingalls Birthplace

Caroline Quiner, mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder author of the “Little House” series of books, was born in a cabin here, December 12, 1839. Caroline was the earliest known settler born in the Town of Brookfield. Her parents, Henry N. ...