Miller County

This County, created by Act of the Legislature February 26, 1856, is named for Judge Andrew J. Miller who died in 1856. A Commander of the Oglethorpe Infantry, he served in the legislature for more than twenty years and was ...

Tahoe City's Constables

In 1901 Tahoe City needed a constable. There was an influx of workers and summer visitors expected with the completion of a 15-mile railroad line from Truckee and the opening of the 400-room hotel, The Tahoe Tavern. Robert Montgomery Watson, ...

A Courthouse Reborn

Civil War to Civil Rights

(Front):

The old City Hall/Courthouse endured hard use, was abandoned, and then was transformed. In 2009 it re-opened as the DC Court of Appeals, redesigned by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, which modernized the ...

Duplin Old Courthouse Site

Erected 1754. Stood one mile north. Served until Sampson County was created from Duplin County in 1784.

Marker is on Turkey Highway (Route 24), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bowdoin College War Memorial

• Honored Here Are All Bowdoin Generations Who Served When Our Country Called and Those Who Fell •

World War II [Honored Dead]

Korea [Honored Dead]

Vietnam [Honored Dead]

I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus,

The cries of agony, the endless groan.

Which, ...

Bowdoin College World War Memorial

Dedicated to the

Sons of Bowdoin

who in

the World War

offered their lives

and services for

their country

and for Freedom

1914 - 1918

[Roll of Honored Dead]

Breve tempus aetatis

satis longum est

ad bene honesteque

vivendum

Courtesy hmdb.org

Colonel Ben Cleveland

1738 - 1806

Colonel Ben Cleveland

1738 - 1806

Wilkes County Militia

Marker is on Bridge Street, on the left when traveling north.

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The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Under the Title of the Imm

(Saint Mary’s Church)

Church and surrounding buildings are on land once owned by Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737 – 1832) only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence and last signer to die. At rear is Carroll Manor, built c.1730, his ...

Barnett Brothers Circus, 1929 ~ 1945 / Bennett Brothers Circus,

Front

This site was the winter quarters of the Barnett Brothers Circus, briefly known as the Wallace Brothers Circus, from 1929 through 1945. Founded by Ray W. Rogers (1889 ~ 1946), the circus was one of the first to travel by ...

27 Christopher Street

Top Plaque

1911 Constructed as the Margaret and Sarah Switzer Institute for Vocational Training of Women

1926 Purchased by St. Joseph's Parish for elementary school

1977 Site of the School of Nursing of St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center ...