Freedom Plaza

Civil War to Civil Rights

“I have a dream.”

                            Martin Luther King, Jr. August 1963

The block-long plaza at 13th and Pennsylvania Avenue just ahead to ...

Boundaries of Freedom

The fenceless plains were vast and open when early homesteaders first came here. But the very nature of homesteading - the possibility of an individual owning 160 acres - meant that somebody had to legally divide and define limits for ...

Veterans Walk of Freedom

The Veterans Walk of Freedom is a tribute to the men and women who have served this country and have given us the freedom we now enjoy.

Marker is at the intersection of Hackensack Street and Highland Avenue, on the right ...

Freedom Boat Yards

Moving from Phillipsburg, Stephen Phillips and Jonathan Betz built a three acre yard for building of steamboats and barges in 1832, on land bought from Abner Lacock. The firm changed ownership many times in the next forty years. 138 boats ...

Let Freedom Ring

This plaque is dedicated to the memory of the innocent victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on America and to the heroic men and women of the Fire Department of the City of New York, the New York ...

Historic Freedom Plains Church

Town of La Grange

Historic

Freedom Plains Church

- ( Presbyterian ) –

Built 1828 – Restored 1970

Chapel 1914 – Community Hall

Education Building 1956

1973 – Women's

Republican Club

Marker is at the intersection of Freedom Plains Road ...

Students and Soldiers of Freedom

In keeping with the American tradition that men will defend freedom with both ideas and arms, this plaque is presented to Fort Jay by the Association of the Alumni of Columbia College to memorialize the fact that in 1794 ...

First Light of Freedom

The Freedmen’s Colony of Roanoke Island

[obverse:]First Light of Freedom

Former slaves give thanks by the creek’s edge

at the sight of the island - “If you can cross the

creek to Roanoke Island, you will find ‘safe haven’.”

[rendering of Edwin Forbes' ...

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

Terry L. Reynolds

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

Courtesy hmdb.org

Freedom Fighters

By November 1864, several thousand African American soldiers, designated as United States Colored Troops or USCT, held Fort Harrison and the nearby earthworks. Many of these men had survived the bloody combat at New Market Heights, Fort Gilmer, and the ...