The Tennessee Williams Visitors Center

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Literary Landmarks Register

The Tennessee Williams

Visitors Center

Author, playwright, and poet

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams

(1911-1983),

was born in Columbus, Mississippi.

In tribute to his life and writings, this site, formerly

the rectory of St. Paul's Episcopal Church,

is designated a Literary Landmark by

Friends of ...

Governor Yeardley’s Lot 1620’s

George Yeardley arrived in Jamestown in 1610, was appointed captain of the guard, and eventually lieutenant governor. Later knighted and appointed governor of Virginia in 1618, he issued the Great Charter in 1619, establishing the first representative government in Virginia.

In ...

Sweet Home / Henry W. Sweet

This house was built in 1906 by architect William E. Benns for H. W. Sweet at a cost of $10,000. The house uniquely blended the Queen Anne and Neo-Classical architectural styles, featuring two identical pedimented entrance porticos supported by fluted ...

League Park

The first professional organized league baseball game was played here on May 4, 1871 ending in a victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the Cleveland Forest Citys by a score of 2-0. A wooden structure was built in 1883 ...

Willis Hill Cemetery

"There is a private cemetery on the crest, surrounded by a brick wall. Burnside's artillery had not spared it. I looked over the wall, which was badly smashed in places, and saw the overthrown monuments and broken tombstones lying on ...

Pecos River High Bridge

High canyon walls dominate the last 60 miles of the Pecos River before it enters the Rio Grande. The Southern Pacific Railroad built the first high bridge across the Pecos in 1891. The first highway bridge to span the river ...

Reverend Francis Devlin

Erected by the citizens of

Portsmouth

in the memory of

Rev. Francis Devlin

the humble priest,

the faithful pastor

who sacrificed his life

in the cause of charity,

during the plague of 1855.

He was a native of Longford, Ireland

Died on the 7th of October

in the 41st year of ...

Barnwell County Courthouse

[Marker Front]:

Barnwell County, originally Winton County,

was created out of Orangeburgh District

in 1785. Renamed Barnwell District in 1798

for John Barnwell (1748-1800), a S.C. militia

officer in the Revolution and afterwards,

it became Barnwell County in 1868. The

first courthouse was built at Boiling Springs

in ...

EA-3B Skywarrior

... to the memory of all the U.S. Naval aircrews that gave their lives ...

[Panel 1:]

The EA-3B Skywarrior was in service for more than three decades in the U.S. Navy’s secret reconnaissance war against the Soviet Union and the ...

Dixville Crossroads

Perryville

During the Battle of Perryville, the Dixville Crossroads, the intersection in front of you, was a crucial tactical point on the battlefield.

Here, the Benton Road (now called Whites Road), which runs to Dixville in Mercer County, intersects the Perryville-Mackville Road ...