Birthplace of Modern Electricity

Here discovering magnetic

induction, Joseph Henry

pioneered the telegraph

and electric motor, 1829 - 31

Marker is on Washington Ave. (New York Route 5), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John Brown Birthplace

John Brown, the abolitionist, was born at this site on May 9, 1800. He dedicated his life to ending slavery in the United States. Brown became a spokesperson for those abolitionists who believed that slavery could only be eliminated by ...

La Cienega Mud Springs, Birthplace of San Dimas

La Cienega—Mud Springs, Los Angeles - San Bernardino - Sonora Road

Stage Station and campground.

A place favored by the Indians.

Near here in 1774 and 1776

Juan Bautisa de Anza—trailblazer, colonizer—and his followers passed on their way from

Sonora, ...

Birthplace of A.P. Giannini

Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy – now the Bank of America – was born at 79 N. Market St. on May 6, 1870. Perhaps San Jose's most famous native, Giannini is considered by many to be ...

Birthplace of the CCC

Camp Roosevelt, NF-1

The Army with Shovels.

By 1933, the Great Depression had demoralized the nation. Millions of young men were unemployed and families were starving. On March 9, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Its ...

Walter Reed Birthplace

Dr. Walter Reed

Conqueror of Yellow Fever

born here 1851

given by

The Medical Society of Virginia

in 1968 to

Association for

The Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Hickory Fork Road (Virginia Route ...

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace

President Theodore Roosevelt was born here on October 27, 1858, and lived here until he was 15. The house, a typical brownstone of the 1840s, was restored in 1923 and opened as a museum.

Marker is on East 20th Street ...

Birthplace of Fitzhugh Lee

To the north stood Clermont, the birthplace of Fitzhugh "Fitz" Lee. Born on 19 Nov. 1835, Lee was the nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1856. During the Civil War, Fitzhugh Lee ...

Birthplace of the Augusta Chronicle

On this site August 30, 1785, Greenburg Hughes published Augusta`s first newspaper, the Augusta Gazette, which continued, after he went to Charleston, until September 30, 1786, when John Erdman Smith, State Printer, began publishing the Georgia State Gazette or Independent ...

Simon Kenton’s Birthplace

Near Hopewell Gap, five miles west, Simon Kenton was born, 1755. Leaving home in 1771, he became an associate of Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark in Indian fighting. He won fame as a scout and as one of the ...