Graceful Brick Building

Constructed in 1858, this graceful brick building played an important role in the financial and entrepreneurial development of frontier San Francisco. From his offices in this building, William M. Lent, President of the Savage Mining Company, organized the financing of ...

America's Main Street

Make No Little Plans

The broadest and most important street in Pierre L'Enfant's Plan of 1791 for the nation's capital connects to the Capitol and the White House.

Pennsylvania Avenue. Almost every American knows its name. Almost every visitor to ...

Equal Justice Under the Law

Make No Little Plans

The roots of America's top law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, reach back to 1789. That year the first Congress created the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute lawsuits in the Supreme Court and ...

The Lowcountry Seaman’s Memorial

The Lowcountry Seaman’s Memorial

In memory of those who lost their lives while working the coastal waters of South Carolina.

Dedicated to Chet Anderson (1965 ~ 1999) “No man has greater love than he who lays down his life for ...

This Tablet Commemorates the First Visit of

Abraham Lincoln

This tablet

commemorates the first visit of

Abraham Lincoln

who arrived at this point

on Feb. 14, 1861 remain-

ing in Pittsburgh a few hours

enroute to Washington for

his inauguration.

Marker is at the intersection of Federal Street and South Commons, on the right when traveling ...

Fort Massachusetts

After the War of 1812, Third System forts were built along the American coastline to create an armed presence and to deter foreign invasions. Located on present day West Ship Island, Fort Massachusetts is a brick and masonry fort commissioned ...

Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

With its more than 60,000 titles, the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica is the largest in the Southeast, concentrating on the political, social, economic and intellectual history of Jewish culture in all historical periods. At the time of ...

Congregation Sons of Israel (Conservative)

This congregation was founded in 1908 and the synagogue was dedicated in 1923. For decades before that, the Jews of St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach met in homes for religious worship. The synagogue was built in 1923 using stained glass ...

Congregation Sons of Israel Cemetery

The oldest unmarked grave in this cemetery is that of a Jewish peddler killed by Indians in 1840. His grave, supposedly beneath a large tree, was the reason why the surrounding land was designated a Jewish cemetery in 1911. The ...

Archer Train Depot, Archer Community Museum, Archer Historical Society

Archer celebrates the second Saturday of each June as David Levy Yulee Day in honor of the June 12, 1810, birthdate of Florida's first senator. Yulee named the town in 1855 to honor his friend, James T. Archer, Florida's first ...