Peoria on The Riverfront / Peoria

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Peoria on The Riverfront

The Illinois River is the Major Waterway within Illinois Boundaries. Native Americans are known to have lived along its banks for 11,000 years.

1673 Along this riverfront Frenchmen Marquette and Jolliet encountered the Peoria Tribe of the ...

The Public School of Germantown

The Germantown Academy

was organized at a meeting of citizens held the 6th day of December 1759 in this building the home of Daniel Mackinett and sometimes known as the Green Tree Inn.

Erected by the Undergraduates of the Germantown ...

Col. Ferguson Fell

Here

Col. Ferguson

Fell

Oct. 7, 1780

Marker can be reached from Kings Mountain Park Road, on the left when traveling east.

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The Parade Ground of Fort Cumberland

Occupied this site 1755

Here the Indian envoys were received before Braddock left for his defeat. In 1756-58 the garrison under Col. Washington was still reviewed here.

Marker is at the intersection of Washington St. and Prospect Square, on the left when ...

Independent Presbyterian Church

Savannah, Georgia

Minister ~ Terry L. Johnson

Founded 1755

Present Sanctuary

Erected 1891

For more than 200 years

holding aloft the torch of truth

Marker is on Whitaker St. near Oglethorpe.

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fáilte go Lanesborough

Brief History of Longford

Longford is a focal point of the northern midlands where the provinces of Leinster, Ulster and Connaught all converge. Longford, where history and literature, tradegy and triumph are all woven together, takes its name from the ancient ...

Site of Old St. Mary’s

Cornerstone 1853 - Dedicated 1854

The first building erected as a cathedral in California, Old Saint Mary’s served the archdiocese of San Francisco in that capacity from 1854 to 1891. Once the City’s most prominent building, much of its stone ...

Fort Brooke Mass Grave

Tampa

To the 102 unknown soldiers and settlers

reburied here from the old U.S.Army cemetery

at Fort Brooke, Mar. 24, 1981. Rest in eternal

peace.

Through the efforts of the city of

Tampa and Tampa Historical Society.

Marker can be ...

The Kneeling Miner

1976 and 2006

This statue dedicated in honor of the hardrock miner, his family and those who served the Webb City District mining industry during the past century.

The Kneeling Miner, circa 1976

Jack E. Dawson [sculptor]

Originally sculpted in concrete

as a part of ...

First African Baptist Church

The First African Baptist Church, the oldest black church in Liberty County, had its origins in the North Newport Baptist Church, founded in 1809. In 1818 the North Newport Church, composed of both white and black members, purchased this site ...