Bicentennial of Paducah

In 1966, Mayor Tom Wilson, a civic-minded Paducah native, was encouraged by then Kentucky Governor Ned Brethitt, to organize a celebration of the state's bicentennial. He envisioned festivities right on the riverfront where the city's history originated, as well as ...

The King's Royal Regiment of New York

The largest Loyalist Corps in the Northern Department during the American Revolution, the King's Royal Regiment of New York was raised on June 19, 1776 under the command of Sir John Johnson. Originally composed of one battalion with ten companies, ...

In Memory of Max Meyerhardt

October 18, 1855 – March 2, 1923

Worshipful Master of Cherokee Lodge No. 66, F. & A. M., Rome, 1885-1923; Worshipful Master of the Seventh District Masonic Convention, 1897-1923; Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia 1900-1907; High Priest Rome ...

Austin Flood Disaster

On Sept. 30, 1911, the Bayless Pulp and Paper Co. dam broke here. This concrete dam, built 1909, was nearly 50 feet high; 534 feet long. Its failure sent torrents of water and debris down Freeman Run into Austin and ...

Shifting Sands: The Story of Rosalie Island

You’re now standing in the cove protected by Rosalie Island, the point of first landfall for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Maryland. Rosalie Island is actually not an island at all–it is a peninsula. Indeed it is not even a ...

Flax and Linen Mill

Site of

First

Flax and Linen Mill

in America

built 1810.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (U.S. 4) and Burgoyne Street, on the left when traveling south on Broadway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort St. Marys

Erected here in 1795 by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, probably after the signing of the Greenville Treaty, on land ceded by the Indians. This area was also the site of the signing of the Treaty of St. Marys in 1818 ...

Fort Anne First Baptist Church

Site of the

First Baptist Church

of Fort Anne Village. Erected

1874, destroyed by fire 1955.

This fragment of the bell

which rang also as the town

clock bears date of purchase.

Marker is on George Street (U.S. 4), on ...

Confederate Hospitals

Thousands of Confederate soldiers were patients at Foard Hospital on this site between August and December 1864. Following a disastrous fire and explosion on August 31, the patients were evacuated to the homes of townspeople and to the country; later ...

Site of Col. Thomas Cadmus House

1763

General George Washington

stopped here July 9, 1778

after the Battle of Monmouth on

his journey to New York State.

Original stones were used

on the present structure.

Bloomfield Sesqui-Centennial

1812 - 1962

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Steet and Ashland Avenue, on the right when ...