Florida's First Confederate Monument

Shortly after the Civil War, the women of Walton County organized a "Ladies' Memorial Association," with Jeannett I. McKinnon as president, to erect a marble monument honoring Walton County's Confederate dead. The Association raised $250, and the monument was first ...

The Chautauqua Hall of Brotherhood

The original Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1874 on Lake Chautauqua in western New York state as a vacation school for Sunday school teachers. The idea of providing a retreat for improving religious and secular education for the general public ...

Fort Worth Zoological Park

The oldest continuous Zoo site in Texas, the Fort Worth Zoological Park has provided its visitors with many recreational and educational opportunities since 1909. The first Zoo in Fort Worth was a small menagerie then located in an old City ...

Florida Education Association: The Beginning

Florida teachers and administrators numbering 700 met here in Chautauqua Hall for a "teachers institute" called the Florida Chautauqua. The meeting was called to order by J.A. Graham, City Superintendent of Schools, Key West, at 12:30 p.m., on Thursday March ...

Walton-DeFuniak Library

The Walton-DeFuniak Library opened during the first decade of the existence of the town of DeFuniak Springs. This community originated in the early 1880's as a station on the new Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad. The town was named for Frederick ...

Federal Road, 1805

Between Milledgeville, Ga.

and St. Stephens, Ala.

crossed here.

Manac's Tavern

was two miles west.

Marker is at the intersection of Mobile Highway (U.S. 31) and Federal Road / West Old Hayneville Road (County Road 24), on the left when traveling north on Mobile Highway. ...

In Honor of Lambert Hitchcock

In Honor of Lambert Hitchcock,

(1795 – 1852), this village was

once known as Hitchcocks-ville.

Here he originated his chairs &

cabinet furniture with Sheraton

influence and in 1826 built his

water powered mill employing a

hundred persons. In 1866 the

name was changed to Riverton.

Marker is ...

Ford's Chapel United Methodist Church

(organized 1808)

The Western Conference, Oct. 1-7, 1808 in Williamson County, Tenn., sent James Gwinn to the "great bend" of the Tenn. River. Gwinn organized at the home of Richard and Betsy Ford, the first Methodist Society of the six in ...

Town of Millsboro

For countless centuries, this was an

important meeting place for the Native

American residents of the Delmarva Peninsula.

In 1792, the state legislature authorized

the construction of a mill dam “across

the head of the waters of Indian River

near ...

New York Unearthed / The Shrine of Elizabeth Ann Seton

Exploring Downtown

New York Unearthed

The underground chambers of “New York Unearthed,” a museum operated by the South Street Seaport Museum, display the remarkable extent of archaeological finds in New York. These range from the surprisingly old-3,000-year-old pottery shards-to the ...