Fifth Avenue School

Site of Alabama's First Public School Integration

Opened in 1944, the Fifth Avenue School became the focal point for major educational change on September 9, 1963, when Sonnie Hereford IV became the first African-American student to integrate public schools in Alabama. ...

Defending Richmond

"The fortifications constructed by the Confederate army in this vicinity & about Richmond are miles in extent & I must add that they are as strong, if not the strongestin the world." - Julian Scott, Union Army Veteran May 1865

From ...

Fort Saco in 1693 / Le Fort Saco en 1693

The Museum in the Streets

The Indians burned the township of Saco in 1688. Fort Saco was built on the future site of the Laconia Mills to protect the settlers in 1693. The fort served as stables during the construction of ...

The Chisholm Trail

1865 – 1893

Here passed the Old Cattle Trail, blazed by Jesse Chisholm, which finally stretched for eight hundred miles from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas over which cowboys from the pasture-lands of the great southwest drove their herds to ...

The Missouri Compromise

(36° 30' North Latitude)

This marker sits on the Missouri Compromise line which by an Act of Congress on March 6, 1820, enabled Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a Slave State. But, the Act forbade slavery in the ...

Camp Tonkawa

(front)

Site of German Prisoner of War Camp known as Camp Tonkawa – World War II – Jan. 1943 – Sept 1945

See other side for story

(back)

Between October and December 1942 more than 900 construction workers labored 24 hours a day to ...

Ponca City Library

Ponca City had been in existence for 11 years. She had schools, churches and even an opera house, but not a library. A group of women from the Twentieth Century Club decided to remedy this and convinced H.C.R. Brodboll to ...

“Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train”

Front

The state of Pennsylvania authorized the “Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train” as an official Bicentennial project. It was one of five such trains that traveled across the country to reach Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, for the 1976 July ...

Captain Diego Arias de Quiros

In 1697 this property was granted to Captain Diego Arias de Quiros by Spanish royal decree for his part in the reconquest of New Mexico with De Vargas. In 1879 bought by L. Bradford Prince, later Territorial Governor. In 1942 ...

Union County Revolutionary War

In honor of the soldiers of Union County South Carolina who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and N Herndon, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org