The First French Fort / The First Playground in Fort Wayne

[Left side of marker]:The First French Fort

The French lived among the Miami at the Three Rivers as early as 1697 when Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (d. 1719), and Francois Marie Bissot de Vincennes, the son of Jean Baptiste ...

First Home of Tennessee Williams

One of America's leading playwrights, Tennessee Williams was born here March 26, 1911. He received the Pulitzer Prize for "Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Both stories set in the South.

Marker is on Main Street.

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Gen. Evans’ Birthplace

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Clement Anselm Evans, Brig. Gen. C.S.A., soldier, lawyer, minister, statesman & author was born 3/4 miles W. of here in 1834. Admitted to the bar at 18, elected county judge at 21, state senator at 25, ...

Officer's Quarters (106)

This frame officer's quarters in the only one of seven built between 1883 and 1886 to have survived without significant modifications. Like many of the post's residences, it was built around a large central hallway that runs the length of ...

First Christian Church

Founded, 1839, through efforts of Talbert Fanning and David Lipscomb. Present structure, erected 1849-50, housed refugee State Senate in Civil War. Here Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterways Agreement was signed in 1958.

Marker is at the intersection of 2nd Avenue North and N. 6th ...

Old Brick Church

Tygart's Valley Presbyterian Church, organized in 1820. A brick building erected three-fourths mile west at the cemetery was destroyed by Union soldiers in 1862-1863 and the bricks used for building flues at the winter quarters.

Marker is on U.S. 250 0.9 ...

Demonstration School

The first "laboratory" school for teacher training in the state was established in 1907 by the faculty of Industrial Institute and College (1884), now Mississippi University for Women, the first public college for women in America. The present structure opened ...

The Andrew Carnegie Public Library

1915-1965

The Ulatis Book Club initiated an early effort in 1905 to obtain a Carnegie Library Building Fund Grant. This effort was taken over in 1910 by the Saturday Club, which campaigned to establish a library district under the jurisdiction of ...

The Gateway Arch

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

Dedicated to

the People of the United States

May 25, 1968

Lyndon B. Johnson

President of the Unites States

The City of St. Louis Missouri

The United States Territorial

Expansion Memorial Committee

United States Department of the Interior

National Park Service

[The Gateway Arch was added to ...

C.S.A Arsenal

Here in 1862 Confederacy built huge arsenal employing over 1000 persons. Later one of buildings became original site of Union Academy, first free public school for Negroes in Columbus.

Marker is on 9th Avenue South.

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