"All Aboard"

Hub, Home, Heart

Union Station, across First Street, was the world’s largest railroad terminal when it opened in 1907. Its construction took five years and displaced hundreds of small houses and businesses. Architect Daniel Burnham’s Beaux-Arts masterpiece, with its soaring, elegant ...

The Dog of Discovery

Inscribed on his collar:

"The greatest traveler of my species. My name is Seaman, the dog of Captain Meriwether Lewis, whom I accompanied to Pacifick Ocean through the interior of the continent of North America."

This statue is dedicated to "Seaman" and ...

Mount Tabor United Methodist Church Cemetery

This cemetery was established August 20, 1857, by George C. and Purnelea Crawford. In an earnest desire to promote God’s Kingdom on Earth, they conveyed this site to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and their successors.

Listed in ...

Harpersville Garden of Memories

The oldest known grave is that of Oprah Moore (1772-1823), consort to Rev. (Doctor) Lemuel Moore. This is the final resting place of American Revolutionary War Patriot William Jennings (1761-1840) and the professed burial site of the Last Creek Indian ...

Jewell Cemetery

Jewell Cemetery is located on what was originally the farm of George Jewell. George, his wife, and their children first moved from Virginia to Kentucky, then Franklin, Missouri, and finally Columbia in 1822.

George, his son William, and sons-in-law Charles Hardin ...

The Jail in "Tom Sawyer"

Here stood the jail (in Mark Twain's book "Tom Sawyer") in which Muff Potter was a prisoner awaiting trial for murder.

Marker is on North Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Permanent Settlement in Shelburne

Site of First Permanent Settlement in Shelburne, Mass. 1760

Martin Severance 1718 - 1810

Scout in French and Indian Wars

Scout with Rogers Rangers

Revolutionary soldier

Marked by Dorothy Quincy Hancock Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.In cooperation with the ...

James Farm

Home of Rev. Robert James, Baptist minister who came here in 1840. Son Jesse was born here and with his brother Frank, were involved with the Bushwhackers in criminal escapades until Jesse was killed in 1882. Frank surrendered and lived ...

Rotary International

(1905-2005)

Founded in Chicago by Paul P. Harris, Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.

Marker is at the ...

Union Christian Church

Union Christian Church began in spring 1897, under a brush arbor approximately 4 miles northeast of this site. Two

acres were donated by future Congressman Charlie W. Thompson, of Tuskegee. Rev. John Allen Branch was the

first minister. The original ...