Keeneland

Here on May 14, 1825, General LaFayette was entertained by Major John Keene who had served as his aide-de-camp during the Revolutionary War.

Marker is on Versailles Road (U.S. 60) 0.3 miles west of Man O War Boulevard, on the right ...

Rose Hill

Home of Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown who lies buried here. He was a close friend of George Washington and was one of the physicians in attendance at his death.

Marker is at the intersection of Rosehill Road and Rose Hill Manor ...

St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral

Completed in 1850, St. Patrick's served as the seat of all Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Newark from the establishment of the diocese in 1853 until completion of Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1954. St. Patrick's, third oldest parish in ...

Pisgah Church

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Pioneer Presbyterian Church, organized in 1784. Here Kentucky Academy opened in 1797. The school united with Transylvania University in 1798.

Marker is at the intersection of Versailles Road (U.S. 60) and Pisgah Pike (State Highway 1967), on the right ...

Mosby’s Rangers Disband

Unable to extend a truce with the Union army, Col. John S. Mosby assembled his command, the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, in a field just west of here on 21 Apr. 1865. As Mosby sat astride his horse, his final ...

Cohoes Mastodon

Site of

Cohoes

Mastodon

Found September 1866

Now in N. Y. State Museum

Marker is on North Mohawk Street near Front Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Donald T. Dust Home

This house, erected in 1893, was occupied and restored from 1976 until his death in 1992 by Donald T. Dust, one of the earliest and strongest leaders in the movement to save Newark landmarks. He founded the Newark Preservation and ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Gen. Early's Confederate troops, marching from York to join Lee's army, camped, June 30, three miles to the east. Arriving here next morning, they turned south toward Gettysburg, on orders of General Ewell.

Marker is at the intersection of Old ...

Norris Tavern / The Warren Green

Norris Tavern. On this site stood the Norris Tavern built by Thaddeus Norris in 1819. It was the scene of a banquet tendered to General Lafayette by the citizens of Fauquier on his visit to the United States in 1825.

The ...

Lincoln's Last Visit / The Debaters in Mattoon

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Abraham Lincoln’s last visit to Cole County was indeed of a personal nature. Lincoln was described as he left Springfield by Henry C. Whitney, who accompanied him part of the way on the ...