United States Gate

1775 ----- 1975

On this hill the Continental militia fought heroically on June 17, 1775. Protected by an earth and timber redoubt laid out by Colonel Richard Gridley, the Army’s first chief engineer, the Americans killed or wounded nearly half of ...

The First Commercial Monorail in the United States

In commemoration

of service and honor

to the Seattle World’s Fair

April 21 – October 21 1962

and the City of Seattle

Placed in tribute this 19th day

of October 1962 at the site of

the Northern Termius of the ...

Second Bank of the United States

[Top Marker]

This Building Erected in 1817

for a branch of the

Second Bank of the United States

was acquired in 1835, and has been

occupied continuously since that

date by the Bank of Charleston

whose name was changed ...

The Standard Time System in the United States

Adopted on this Site – October 11, 1883

Chicago’s famous Grand Pacific Hotel, then on the site of the present Continental Bank building, was the location of the General Time Convention of 1883 which, on October 11 of that year, adopted ...

United States Post Office and Courthouse

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

United States Post Office

and Courthouse

c.1933

Marker is at the intersection of East Stewart Avenue and North Third Street on East Stewart Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

United States Naval Training Station

Great Lakes, Illinois

Land donated, 1905,

by

The Commercial Club of Chicago,

Theodore Roosevelt, President,

Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy,

F. A. Delano, President, Commercial Club, Chicago,

Graeme Stewart, Member, Commercial Club, Chicago.

Station Dedicated 1911.

William H. Taft, President,

George Von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy,

George C. ...

United States Border Station

Naco, Arizona

This property has been

placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of South Naco Highway and West Hogan Street, on the left when traveling south on South Naco Highway.

Courtesy ...

200th Anniversary of the United States

1776 1976

In memory of the

200th Anniversary of the

United States as an

Independent Nation

and American Patriots

who fought for the freedoms

we now enjoy

Erected by the Towns of

Graniteville, Vaucluse and

Warrenville

July 4th 1976

Marker is on Marshall Street near Canal Street, on the right when ...

Site of United States Courthouse

[In English Translation:]

The United States Courthouse, which stood on this site from 1892 to 1936, was the scene of hundreds of arraignments, hearings and trials during the Mexican Revolution. Some of these legal proceedings involved Magónistas, or radical Liberal Party ...

United States Customhouse

United States Customhouse

Has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the

history of the

United States of America

Marker is at the intersection of Canal Street and Decatur/Magazine Street, on the right when ...