Eagle Warehouse

After the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper razed its original offices here, Frank Freeman (1862-1949) was commissioned to design a warehouse for the site. It was completed in 1894.

Acknowledged now as Brooklyn's greatest architect, Freeman was a master of the Eclectic Romanesque ...

High Shoals

Two miles south on Rocky River

Anderson Water, Light, & Power Co.,

organized in 1894 by

William C. Whitner,

was successful the next year

in transmitting electricity over

the distance of six miles

to Anderson.

This achievement was a herald

of the industrial revolution

in the South.

Marker is at the ...

California Hill

Nebraska Historical Marker

The large hill to the north, which became known as “California Hill,” was climbed by thousands of covered wagon emigrants heading west between 1841 and 1860. Many were bound for Oregon. California became the destination of the majority ...

Repulsed Again and Again

Gen. David R. Jones, Longstreet's Command

(1) Throughout the early hours of the battle, Confederate Gen. Lee moved soldiers from this part of his line north toward the Cornfield and the West Woods. This shift resulted in one division, numbering about ...

Home of Charles Curtis

Home of Charles Curtis

Vice President

United States 1928-1932

The Charles Curtis

House - 1878

Marker is at the intersection of SW Topeka Boulevard (U.S. 75) and SW 11th Street, on the right when traveling south on SW Topeka Boulevard.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Woodmen of the World

On this site

Woodmen of the World

Life Insurance Society

was organized

June 6, 1890

Marker is on Farnam Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

“Hitherto Hath The Lord Helped Us”

(1 Sam 7:12)

In commemoration of 70 years of unselfish service to Newark and its citizens in all walks of life, this memorial is dedicated to

The Salvation Army

1880-1950

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Cedar Street, on the left ...

Site of the First State Capitol

The first major office building in Topeka was erected on this corner in 1857-1858. It was known as the Ritchie Block and in the structure in 1861 the Executive Offices and the Senate Chamber of the new State of Kansas ...

Johnston's Headquarters

During the fighting at Dallas, New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill & elsewhere along the opposing Confederate & Federal lines, General J. E. Johnston [CS] had h'dq'rs at the Wm. Wigley house (which stood near here) May 25 - June 1, ...

Archie Callahan

Commemorating

Archie Callahan

who gave his life

at Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

[ Lower Marker: ]Archie Callahan Jr. was born and raised in Newark, NJ. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy at age 19 on August 21, 1940. Callahan became the first African American ...