P.T. Barnam

First stop of record with own circus troupe

was 1/2 mile S.E., November 12-13, 1836. No

show is recorded, but Barnum preached a sermon.

Marker is at the intersection of N Wesleyan Blvd. (Bypass U.S. 301) and Airport Road, on the ...

Lincoln In Petersburg

Presidential Visit to Centre Hill

At noon on April 7, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his party left City Point for Petersburg in a special train on the newly repaired City Point Railroad, arriving in the city half an hour later. ...

The Old Brick Capitol

[Old Capitol Prison]

The Old Brick Capitol

July 4, 1815

The cornerstone of the Old Brick Capitol

built by Washington citizens

to house the Congress

was laid on this site.

The Congress met here from December 13, 1815

through March ...

David Humphreys

[ west side ]

David Humphreys

Doctor of Laws

Member Of

The Academy of Sciences

In Philadelphia

Massachusetts

and

Connecticut

A Member of the Bath

And West of England Society

And Fellow of the Royal Society

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Filled with love of

His native land and of liberty

He devoted his youth to the ...

Juan Ponce De Leon

(Front):The

Discoverer of

Florida

Juan Ponce De Leon

landed near

this spot

1513

(Back):Presented

to the

City of St. Augustine

by

Andrew Anderson, M.D.

1923

Marker is at the intersection of Menendez Avenue (Florida Route A1A) and King Street on ...

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D. / Patterson Hospital

Side 1:

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D.

April 16, 1867 – Dec.31, 1930

Dr. Fred Patterson was born in Stewart Co., Ga., attended South Georgia Agriculture College, Cuthbert, graduated Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1890. He practiced in Lumpkin four years before moving to ...

St. Paul Camp Ground

(Front text)

This Methodist camp ground, one of four in Dorchester County, was established in 1880. African-American freedmen in this area held services in a brush arbor at the "Old Prayer Ground" nearby as early as 1869. By 1873 they ...

John J. Pershing, General of the Armies (1860-1948)

The Western Front - The Meuse-Argonne Campaign

[Panel 1]:

On 6 April 1917, the United States entered World War I. With few regular forces, the task of training and transporting an effective army to fight in France was formidable. The U.S. Navy, ...

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

"We Have Met The Enemy And They Are Ours"

The original of this monument to Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, was created in marble in 1860 by New York Sculptor William Walcutt ...

Paso de la Santa Cruz

Spot where in 1753 Juan Galvan, Spanish explorer, put up a huge cross, to show his choice of site for Mission San Saba. Indians gathered at the cross, remaining to participate in the first known Christian worship service in this ...