Mississippi County Courthouse

Osceola

This Neoclassical Courthouse was built in 1912 on land donated by Judge W.J. Driver. Constructed of unusual brick, the building features a flat roof supporting a copper dome with large concrete terra cotta decorations and round polished inserts on the ...

Pfeiffer Building

First stone and oldest surviving commercial building in Napa. Built by Philip Pfeiffer as brewery 1875. Other uses included "Stone Saloon" and Sam Kee Laundry (1920's-1970's). Italianate front represents a much earlier style of wooden construction now vanished from Napa.

Dedicated ...

George Caleb Bingham

(1811 - 1879)

One of America's greatest painters, George Caleb Bingham, was known during his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist" for his depictions of frontier life and portraits.

Bingham was born in Augusta County, Virginia, March 20, 1811, and in 1819 the ...

Hebron Presbyterian Church

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Hebron Presbyterian Church was organized in 1796 by Rev. John Newton, a native of Pennsylvania. Rev. Thomas Newton, a younger brother, was the first pastor. First elders were John McEntire and Samuel Makie, natives of Ireland, and ...

Strengthen the Arm of Liberty

With the faith and courage of

their forefathers who made

possible the freedom of these

United States

the Boy Scouts of America

dedicated this copy of the

Statue of Liberty as a pledge

of everlasting fidelity and

loyalty

40th anniversary crusade to

Strengthen the Arm of Liberty

1950

Marker is at the ...

Frederick T. Kemper

1816 - 1881

Frederick Thomas Kemper, pioneering Missouri educator and founder of Kemper Military School in Boonville, was born at Madison Courthouse, Virginia. After graduating from Marion College in Palmyra, Missouri, he came to Boonville in 1844 and opened his first ...

Hanging Rock Region

Charcoal iron production in Ohio was centered in the Hanging Rock Region, a geographic area extending from Hocking County to the Ohio River and including portions of northern Kentucky. The region encompassed an 1800 square mile area that was rich ...

Constitution Tree

1787 The National 1987

Arborist Association

and

The International Society

of Arboriculture

jointly recognize this

significant tree in this

Bicentennial year as

having lived here at the

time of the signing of

our Constitution

Marker is at the intersection of Lafayette Avenue and Kary Way, on the right when traveling west ...

Carlisle Military School

SC Methodists began an institution on this site in

1892 naming it Carlisle Fitting School, for James H.

Carlisle, president of Wofford College 1875-1902.

It served as a coeducational preparatory institution

for Wofford. Col. James F. Risher (1889-1973) leased

Carlisle in ...

This Bronze Cannon

This bronze cannon was made at Douai France in 1751, by Berenger the great gun manufacturer, for the House of the Bourbons. After many travels and vicissitudes, it was discovered mounted in defence of Fort Morro Santiago, Cuba. Upon the ...