Amelia Earhart Historic District

Listed on the National Register on Feb. 1, 2002. It reflects the varied architectural tastes of Atchison's early residents. It contains a collection of architecturally significant building types dating from 1860 - 1928.

Marker is at the intersection of 2nd Street ...

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum

Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897

in the home of her grandparents,

Alfred G. and Amelia Harres Otis.

The home was constructed circa 1860.

The Birthplace Museum is owned by

The Ninety-Nines, Inc. International Organization of Women Pilots

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum

has been placed on ...

Amelia Gayle Gorgas

1826-1913

Daughter of John Gayle, Governor of Alabama.

Wife of Josiah Gorgas, Brigadier General, C. S. A.

Mother of William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General, U. S. A.

Untiring nurse in Confederate Hospitals, 1861-1865.

First Historian Alabama Division, U. D. C. 1897-1899.

Matron of University Hospital, 1879-1907.

Librarian, ...

Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge / Amelia Swilley Bingham

[Front Side Text]:"Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge"

Born in Hicksville in 1862, Daeida H.W. Beveridge co-developed and named, in 1887, the Los Angeles, California, suburb of Hollywood, since the early 1900s a world center of the film and television industry. With first ...

Amelia Island Lighthouse

Standing at the highest point on the island, the Amelia Island Lighthouse was built from bricks re-used from the Cumberland Island Lighthouse in 1839 on land purchased from Mary Fernandez. The 67 foot tall lighthouse has walls four feet thick ...

Birth Place of Amelia Earhart

July 24, 1897

Dedicated May 21, 1982

In memory of A.E. 50th anniversary

of her first trans-Atlantic flight

Marker is at the intersection of Kansas Avenue and Sixth Street, on the right when traveling west on Kansas Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nottoway County / Amelia County

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Nottoway County

Area 310 Square Miles

Formed in 1788 from Amelia, and named for an Indian tribe. Tarleton passed through this county in 1781. Here lived William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia 1910-14. (Reverse) Formed in 1734 from Prince George and Brunswick, ...