Joel Roberts Poinsett

1759 - 1851

Statesman • Diplomat • Naturalist

Founder, National Institution for the

Promotion of Science, forerunner of

the Smithsonian Institution

• First United States Minister to Mexico •

• United States Secretary of War •

While serving as Minister to Mexico in 1825, Poinsett ...

Jonesville Confederate Monument

[West Side]

C.S.A.

1861-1865

To the Confederate

dead of Union District

Comrades

Confederate Soldiers

[South Side]

From North to South

From East to West

Their ashes scattered lie

But in the regions of

the Blest,

Their spirits sing on high

[East Side]

The arms are stacked

The flags are furled

The sound of battle no

Longer calls but ...

James and Ann Whitall House

James Whitall, a wealthy Quaker farmer and merchant, and his wife Ann Cooper built the main brick section in 1748. On April 16, 1777, the Pennsylvania militia commandeered the farm and built Fort Mercer in the northern apple orchard. Son ...

Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy

of Massachusetts addressed

two thousand Romans from

this site September 29, 1960, in

his quest for the presidency

of the United States.

Marker is at the intersection of East Court Street and North James Street, on the right when traveling west on ...

Jamestown Branch Jail

California’s gold country was in the midst of a second gold rush when the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors approved construction of a Jamestown Branch Jail. It was designed by Sonora architect C.W. Ayers and built by A.S. Thomas for ...

Jamestown

? Gateway to the Southern Mines ?

Founded in 1848, one mile from the first gold find in Tuolumne County, at Woods Crossing.

Arriving in 1849, Col. George F. James, a merchant popular for supplying free champagne to patrons, was ...

In Honor Of Edith M. Dabbs and James McBride Dabbs

In Honor Of

Edith M. Dabbs

for her work and leadership in preserving

historic documents and photographs of Penn

School and for her contributions as author of

Face of an Island and Sea Island Diary

and

James McBride Dabbs

for his dedicated service as trustee and

advocate ...

Joseph Peake's Farm

ca. 1840-1863

Side A:

Joseph Peake was born in Pennsylvania in 1792 and came to Ohio in 1809 with his parents and brother. They were the first African Americans to settle permanently in the Cleveland area. He was the son ...

Julius Lichtenstein House

This was a merchant's residence of the early 1900s. Born in Indianola, Julius Lichtenstein (1871-1923) was three when his family moved to Corpus Christi and opened a drygoods store in 1874. From childhood, he worked in the store that in ...

St. Joseph's Retreat

In 1885 Michigan's first private mental institution was located here under the guidance of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. In 1855 the Sisters at St. Mary's Hospital in Detroit had begun the care of the mentally ...