HMS Gaspee

"Sons of Liberty"

Upon this corner stood Sabin Tavern in which on the evening of June 9th 1772 the party and organized to destroy the H.R.M. schooner Gaspee.

In the destruction of which was shed the first blood in the American Revolution

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Badger State Planing Mill At Lake Hallie

Badger State Lumber Company

This site is near the location of the first sawmill called the "Blue Mills" built just north of Lake Hallie, built over a two year period 1842-1843 by Steven McCann and the brothers Simon and George Randall. ...

Providence (Water Street)

The site of an 18th century seaport village where seafaring merchants participated in the African slave trade. In the 20th century this port was used by Cape Verdeans who came to live in America.

Marker is on South Water Street, on ...

Gene Stephenson's Wichita State University All Americans

All Americans

[List of WSU Baseball Players]

Freshmen All Americans

[List of WSU Baseball Players]

Scholastic All Americans

[List of WSU Baseball Players]

[All Americans Marker Symbol Designations]

"Star" denotes - N.C.A.A. Player of the Year

1981 Joe Carter, 1982 Phil Stephenson, 1993 Darren Dreifort

"Square" denotes - N.C.A.A. ...

The Puritan and the Indian

Daniel Chester French

Completed 1902

Restored 2002 by Granoff Associates

Daniel Chester French is best known as the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial and Concord's Minute Man. This statuary portrays the two cultures that defined New England history.

Marker is on Dorrance Street, on ...

Repentance for Slavery

On this site Providence R.I. July 5th 1999 in conjunction with the 22nd general Synod of the United Church of Christ a group of church and community people gathered in an act of repentance for African American slavery and in ...

First Professional Theater

Site of the "first' Professional Theater in Providence from August 6, 1795- September 23, 1832

Marker is on Mathewson Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pizza Hut Number One

First Opened at Bluff and Kellogg Streets

Two former WSU students, Dan and Frank Carney, borrowed $600 to open this first Pizza Hut. Their corporation grew to become the world's largest pizza chain and was sold to PepsiCo in 1977 for ...

Charlottenburg Palace

Schloß Charlottenburg

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The baroque Lietzenburg palace completed in 1699 was built by Arnold Nehring as a summer residence for Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Elector Friedrich III. After her death in 1705, the palace was renamed Charlottenburg ...

Edmund Lyon Park

Opened in 1916 on land donated by Kate Gleason. Named after local financier Edmund Lyon. Original bandstand built in 1916, replaced in 1988.

Marker is at the intersection of Main St and W. Spruce St., on the right when traveling ...