North Carolina Mutual Building

(Front text)

The North Carolina Mutual Building was built in 1909 by the N.C. Mutual and Provident Association, a black-owned

life insurance company with an office here until the mid-1930s. Built as a two-story commercial building, with a third

story added ...

Chief Justice John Marshall

Civil War to Civil Rights

A bronze likeness of Chief Justice John Marshall, visible on your way to the next Heritage Trail sign, keeps watch over John Marshall Park to your right. Marshall is remembered for molding the U.S. Supreme ...

Confederate Grand Assault

“All was disorder and excitement; the field was full of men running for their very lives, and it was almost impossible to make any resistance to the tide of humanity pressing down upon us.”

John E. Stewart, 44th New York

General James ...

Scotland County Veterans Memorial

[Front Face]

In honor of those who served in the military forces of the United States of America in war and peace, and in loving memory of those who gave their lives in that service.

[Side1]

Panama

1989-1990

World War I

1917-1918

Revolutionary War

1775-1783

[Side2]

Persian Gulf War

1990-1991

World War ...

Glenwood Elementary and High School

Glenwood Elementary and High School was established in 1951 as one of Georgia’s first public consolidated schools for African Americans. Part of a statewide equalization effort to improve school buildings and preserve segregation, Glenwood became the only public school for ...

Home of Aaron Dickinson

1863

Home of Aaron Dickinson, blacksmith

and his wife Elizabeth

Home of J. Teller Schoolcraft while he was

Mayor of Schenectady (1914-1915)

Site of store owned by John Prince (New York

State Assembly member, after whom Princetown

was named) ...

Buckingham

The Buckingham garden apartment complex was built in stages between 1937 and 1983. It represents a pioneering effort to provide rental housing through the use of "garden city" planning principles, mass production techniques and private capital. The initial developer was ...

Wichita Casket Company Building

Built 1916; Burned down 1987

Historic Address: 129/131 N. Rock Island

Current Address: 129 N. Rock Island

Marker is on Rock Island Street near 1st Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Flour and Grain Exchange

Originally a meeting hall for the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Exchange was built on land donated by streetcar magnate Henry M. Whitney and completed in 1892. Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge designed the tiered arches and rock-faced masonry which exemplify ...

F. G. F. G. and C. H. Smyth and Sons Building C. H. Smyth and Sons Building

Built 1912

Historic Address: 120/122 N. Rock Island

Current Address: 117 N. Mosley

Marker is on Mosley, on the left when traveling north.

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