St. Patrick's Church

In 1779, Father Charles Sewall, S.J., took title to a lot here. Log structure built 1784; brick edifice in 1806. Present church erected 1893 by Father Henry G. Ganss. Adjacent is St. Katherine's Hall, built by Mother Katherine Drexel, 1901, ...

Petersburg Volunteers 1812

This tree is dedicated in honor of the

Petersburg Volunteers who left this

site on Oct. 21, 1812 to fight the British

at Fort Meigs, in the Ohio Territory.

Marker is on Centre Hill Court north of Franklin Street, on the left when traveling ...

Druid City Hospital School Of Nursing

Constructed in 1923 through gift of J. T. Horne, this building occupied by Druid City Hospital School of Nursing from 1923 to 1947. Used by University of Alabama from 1951 to 1954 to first state supported collegiate school of nursing ...

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Founded in Tuscaloosa on the campus of the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Its chapter designation, Alabama Mu, identifies it as the mother chapter of the national collegiate fraternity.

Founding Members:

Noble Leslie DeVotie •

Nathan Elams Cockrell •

Thomas ...

African Elephant

Loxodonta africana

In Greenville!

Joy eats 2 bales of hay, 25 pounds of grain, 20 pounds of fruits and vegetables, with vitamin supplements added, and browse. Total food consumption is up to 200 pounds each day.

Joy, a female, weighs over 8,000 pounds ...

Potawatomie Baptist Manual Labor Training School

Student farm labor was intended to make this boarding school self-supporting. The building, completed in the spring of 1850, housed approximately ninety Indian children. Eleven years later, the school was closed due to funding failures and the Civil War.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sullivan Campaign

This major expedition of the Revolution aimed at the Indian-Tory alliance in New York, was organized at Easton under Gen. John Sullivan. Over a month's preparations preceded the first day's march, begun near here June 18, 1779.

Marker is on Knox ...

Lincoln In Petersburg

Tears at Fort Mahone

On the morning of April 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln awoke at City Point to the news that Petersburg had fallen just hours before. He immediately arranged to visit the city and meet with Gen. Ulysses S. ...

Lake Champlain and the American Revolution

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . the possession of every thing here depends upon keeping the Command of the Water.”

- Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, July 16, 1776

In front of you is Lake Champlain, at 120 ...

Northampton County

Formed March 11, 1752 out of Bucks County. Named for Northamptonshire in England. Easton, county seat, was incorporated in 1789. County is noted as a leading center for the steel industry and for cement and slate production.

Marker is on South ...