Fort Gorges

Built on Hog Island Ledge, Fort Gorges was named after Sir Ferdinando Gorges, colonial proprietor of the Province of Maine. The fort's site allowed it to provide supplemental fire to both Forts Preble and Scammel. Its location at the head ...

The Colonial Church of Augusta

"But as Indian Friendship is sometimes precarious, we have built it opposite one of the Curtains of the

Fort."

Augusta, April 12, 1750

In June 1737, under orders from General James Oglethorpe, Captain Roger Lacy began a musketproof fort of wooden ...

Headquarters of General Joseph E. Johnston

Where on July 18, 1864, the transfer of the command of the Army of Tennessee was made to General John B. Hood.

(On Separate Plaques:)

Atlanta Chapter

Restored by Atlanta Paper Co. 1955

Restored by Mead Containerboard 1996

Marker is on West Marietta Street 0.1 ...

The Peter Tufts (Cradock) House

Known for many years as the Cradock House because it was thought to have been built in 1634 for Matthew Cradock, the construction of the house is now attributed to Peter Tufts. Although the exact date of its origin is ...

Lincoln’s First Illinois Home

On an eminence overlooking the Sangamon River three miles south of here stood the first home of Lincoln in Illinois. To this site came the Lincoln family in March, 1830. Here they lived until 1831, when the parents removed to ...

Florence Fifer Bohrer

(1877 - 1960)

The first woman elected to the Illinois Senate, Florence Fifer Bohrer served two terms from 1925 to 1933. She chaired the Senate committee to visit charitable institutions, led efforts to revamp Illinois' child welfare laws, and sponsored legislation ...

Home of Joseph W. Fifer

This was the home of Joseph W. Fifer, Republican Governor of Illinois, 1889-1893. Fifer was born in Virginia in 1840 and came to Illinois in 1857. During the Civil War he served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. He graduated ...

Cradle of North Mississippi Methodism

The North Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, now the United Methodist Church, was organized one block East on November 30, 1870. It was created from portions of the Memphis, Alabama and Mississippi Conferences - Bishop D. S. ...

First Congregational Church of South Portland

Near this hallowed ground our earliest settlers erected in 1722 a garrison-meeting house for worship and protection. This was the beginning of the First Congregational Church of South Portland, which was established on November 10, 1734.

Dedicated November 10, 1984

Marker is ...

Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Preble

Dedicated to the

men and women of

the Coast Artillery Corps

who defended Portland Harbor

at Fort Preble in five wars

from 1808 through 1945

Marker is on Fort Road near McKernan Drive, on the right when traveling north.

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