Northern Defense Lines

After the English burned St. Augustine in 1702, the Spanish built earthworks beyond the fort for defense against attack. Water and marsh protected the other sides.

English raiders were stopped in 1728 at the Hornwork, a half mile north of here.

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University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. The cornerstone of its first building was laid on October 6, 1817, in the presence of three presidents of the United States—Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. In 1825, the university admitted its ...

Old Dixie Club Library

This antebellum structure once stood on Orangeburg's Public Square. In 1865 it was occupied by Federal troops. From 1924 to 1955 it housed the first public library in Orangeburg County, organized by the Dixie Club, (1896). Given to the Orangeburg ...

Becker Butte Lookout

Dedicated to the memory of

Gustav Becker

Springerville, Arizona

1856 – 1940

Pioneer Merchant, Trail Blazer, Road Builder

A father of U.S. Highway 60

His was a long life, founded on the Golden Rule

Marker is on U.S. 60 at milepost 297, on the right when traveling ...

Nevius Street Bridge

The Nevius Street Bridge is a 300-foot-long, two span, double-intersection, Pratt through-truss bridge. It is the oldest documented metal-truss bridge in the county, being constructed in 1886 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The county hired two ...

Wortendyke Homesite

Frederick Wortendyke owned this land in 1723. It was once part of a large grant called the Tappan Patent. His son Jacob, who owned the homestead during the Revolutionary War, was taken captive in one of many British raids made ...

Vigia de San Carlos

St. Charles Watchtower

Signals were exchanged between this tower and a similar one across Matanzas Bay, on the ocean shore near the present lighthouse.

Marker can be reached from South Castillo Drive (State Highway A1A), on the right when traveling north.

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Peter A. Blauvelt House

Built about 1890 in the High Victorian style of architecture when Norwood was part of old Harrington Township. Blauvelt was an undertaker and erected the building as a residence. In 1922 it became the home of Charles S. Gray who ...

First Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg, S.C.

Sesquicentennial - 1993

The Sesquicentennial Bells were cast by the Bellfoundry of Paccard Fonderie de Cloches. Located in Annecy-le-Vieux, France. The praise of God is basic to our worship and each bell is inscribed with of praise from the Psalms.

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"Commissioners' Oak"

In April 1786 Alexander Gillon, Henry Pendleton, Richard Winn, Richard Hampton, and Thomas Taylor, Commissioners appointed to lay out Columbia, are said to have met under an oak which grew near here. According to tradition the first court and jury ...