The First High Rise Concrete Frame Building in the United States

Commemorating the first high rise concrete frame building in the United States

Erected 1903

Marker is at the intersection of E 4th St and Vine St, on the right when traveling west on E 4th St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fowler Family Farm

House Built 1922

The Fowler family property is an early 20th century farm comprised of the main house, a renter house and various agricultural outbuildings associated with cotton and, later, chicken production. The farm serves as a reminder of Forsyth County's ...

The Story of This Land

In 1895, the year of Grayslake's incorporation, Charles F. Kuebker bought the land that encompasses Central Park from Charles Whitehead. He brought his wife and young son to Grayslake the following year. They tilled the soil and raised animals. In ...

Fort Clark Historic District

Established 1852

Fort Clark Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior listed December 6, 1979

Marker is at the intersection of Fort Clark Road and Mackenzie Road, on the ...

Zelda Fitzgerald

1900-1948

Writer, artist, Jazz Age

icon; wife of F. Scott

Fitzgerald. On Mar. 10,

1948, died in Highland

Hospital fire, ¼ mi. S.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (North Carolina Route 1791) and WT Weaver Blvd, on the right when ...

The University of North Carolina at Asheville

Established 1927; became

Asheville-Biltmore

College 1936. Moved here

in 1961. A campus of

The University of North

Carolina, 1969.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (North Carolina Route 1791) and WT Weaver Blvd, on the right when traveling north ...

Battle of Asheville

On April 3, 1865, Union Col.

Isaac M. Kirby left East Tenn.

with 1100 men on a raid against

Asheville. On April 6, Kirby's

force was defeated by local

militia under Col. G. W. Clayton.

Earthworks remain 100 yds. N.

Marker ...

Washington Afro-American Newspaper Office Building

1800 11th Street, NW

The independent weekly Afro-American, one of the most enduring Black newspapers in the country was founded in Baltimore in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr. The Washington Afro-American began publication in 1932, and operated from this ...

The Road to Fort Duquesne

This memorial was erected in 1907

by the Society of Colonial Wars

in the District of Columbia

to mark the road over which

on April 14, 1755

a division of the British Army

under General Braddock

marched on its ...

4. The Counter-Offensive Takes Shape

The Battle of Queenston Heights Walking Tour

The Niagara escarpment rises above you. The British reinforcements arriving here from Fort George, in battle dress and exhausted from a "double quick march", struggled up this slope some distance to your right.

While the ...