North Star

Near birthplace and early home of Annie Oakley, "Little Sure Shot", born 1860

Marker is on U.S. 127 0.1 miles south of Ohio Route 705, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Florida's First African-American Insurance Company--1901-2001

The Afro-American Insurance Company, formerly the Afro-American Industrial and Benefits Association, was founded in 1901 to provide affordable health insurance and death benefits to the state's African-Americans. Founded by the Reverend E.J. Gregg, E.W. Latson, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, A.W. Price, ...

In Commemoration of Old Toby the Shoshone Indian

Members of the Lewis & Clark Expedition - August and September 1805

In commemoration of

Old Toby

the Shoshone Indian

who guided the Lewis & Clark expedition from the Salmon to the Bitterroot Valley after he had shown Captain Clark that the Salmon River ...

Battle of Maryland Heights

Maryland's First Civil War Battle

(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's smashing victory over Union Gen. John Pope at the Second Battle of Manassas, Lee decided to invade the North to reap the fall harvest, gain Confederate recruits, earn foreign ...

Harriet Belle Amsden Sammons (1876-1954)

Bank President

Harriet was an astute financial manager and the first female bank president in New Mexico, operating the First National Bank in Farmington from 1922 until 1951. During the Depression she bought out San Juan National Bank, keeping it solvent ...

Brownstown Area Veterans Memorial

All Gave Some - Some Gave All

Dedicated in remembrance

of our veterans

Memorial Day 2001

by

their friends and families

Conceived by

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Post #9770

Brownstown, Il.

Killed in Action

L.H. Foley · M. Forbis · R.O. Cortelloni · C. Garner · R. Sexton · V.D. Davis ...

F.D. Crockett

Built in 1924 in Seaford, VA by Alex Gaines and John Smith

This historic vessel is the last largest log boat built for power.

The Deltaville Maritime Museum, with John England as project manager, is restoring the “Crockett” for ...

St. Elmo Area Veterans Memorial

Duty - Honor - God - Country

We dedicate this memorial

to the men and women

whose names are listed on

the tablets before you.

They left this community to

serve with honor and dignity

and to preserve freedom

around the world.

"Never in the course of history

has so ...

Wryanoke and Parrish Hill

Charles City County, Virginia

The Weanoc Indians gave this area its name. The Minge family settled much of the Weyanoke peninsula during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landmarks have included Weyanoke Parish Church, Tyler’s Mill, a steamboat landing, a post ...

First School House and Council House in Iron County

"I commenced a grammar school in my wickiup by the light of the fire and only one grammar book." Diary of George A. Smith, February 25, 1851.

The first school house, 18 x 24 feet, was built west of the Council ...