Connecticut Gate

June 17, 1775

He who brought us over still sustains us.

Connecticut American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

South Marker:

General Israel Putnam of Connecticut helped decide to fortify the Charleston peninsula and with Captain Thomas Knowlton commanded Connecticut’s forces. Captain Knowlton’s company held the rail ...

The Second Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House

1944

The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs second house possesses national significance as the first house to be built under architect Frank Lloyd Wright's concept of the "Solar Hemicycle". Based on arcs, radii, and circles, the house's design includes a floor-to-roof glass ...

Battle Of Horseshoe Bend

One hundredth anniversary

This tablet is placed by

Tallapoosa County

in commemoration of the

one hundredth anniversary

of the

Battle Of Horseshoe Bend,

fought within its limits

on March 27, 1814.

There the Creek Indians, led by

Menawa and other chiefs, were

defeated by the American and

allied indian forces under

Gen. Andrew ...

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 ...

Massachusetts Gate

Colonel William Prescott of Massachusetts led the colonial forces on Breed’s Hill. His commanding figure and strong will inspired the farmer soldiers to the greatness of the day. Dr. Joseph Warren, commissioned a Major General, elected to serve Prescott as ...

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 ...

Chief Seattle

[Right side of the monument]

Kitsap sights Vancouver’s vessel 1792 – First vessel on Puget Sound

[Left side of the monument]

Seattle

Chief of the Suquamish

A firm friend of the whites

For him the city of Seattle

was ...

Early Land Patent

Argoll Yeardley patented 4000 acres of land, known as Tyndall's Neck, here on the north side of Charles (now York) River, October 12, 1640. This was one of the first land patents north of the York River.

Marker is on Vernon ...

Our Fallen Patriots

East Face:Our Fallen Patriots

The Price of Liberty

1st Lieut. Andrew A.

Pomeroy

Co. I, 198th Reg. P.V.

Killed March 30, 1865

Corp. David W. McKinney

Co. F, 13th Reg. Pa. Cav.

Died

May 7, 1863

J. Anderson Kelso

Co. F. 13th Reg. Pa. Cav.

Cap. July 1863

Died on Bell Island ...

Camp of 1st Battalion, 4th Illinois Cavalry

McClernand's Division

U.S.

Camp of

1st Battalion,

4th Illinois Cavalry,

McClernand's (1st) Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Cavalry Road 0.4 miles west of Hamburg-Savannah Road, on the right when traveling west.

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