The John T. Brush Stairway

The John T. Brush Stairway Presented by the New York Giants

Marker is on Edgecombe Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort St. Joseph

Built near here in 1686 by the French explorer Duluth, this fort was the second white settlement in lower Michigan. This post guarded the upper end of the vital waterway joining Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Designed to bar English ...

Pioneer Jet Avaitors of the Korean War

[Large Marker]

Dedicated to the Pioneer Jet Aviators of the Korean War During the 50th Anniversary Commemoration and the Illinois State Convention of the KWVA, Deptember 15, 2002

[Lower Marker]

U.S.A.F. F-86 Saber Jet

This aircraft represents the F-86 flown by Lt. J.W. Hegeler ...

James Farmer, Civil Rights Leader

James Leonard Farmer was born in Texas on 12 Jan. 1920. In 1942, he and other Civil Rights leaders founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago. CORE used Gandhi-inspired tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest discriminatory practices ...

St. John's Church

[Marker Front]:

This church grew from

services held for German

inhabitants in Charleston

by Rev. Johann Martin

Boltzius in 1734 and Rev.

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg

in 1742. The cornerstone of

the first house of

worship was laid in 1759;

the ...

John Muir Home

Ranch home of John Muir 1838- 1914, explorer, naturalist, author and foremost advocate of forest protection and of national parks. The John Muir Trail through the High Sierra, Muir Woods National Monument and Muir Glacier in Alaska are named for ...

Site of the First Japanese American Farm on the Palos Verdes Pen

This site was designated a Point of Historical Interest at a meeting in regular session on May 1, 1992 in Sacramento. It particularly honors Kumekichi Ishibashi, who built the first Japanese-American farmhouse in 1906. He was born in Japan and ...

Jack London

To mark the birthplace

of the noted author

Jack London

January 12, 1876

The original home on this

site, then known as 615

Third Street was destroyed

in the fire of April 18, 1906

Placed by the

California Historical ...

John and Horace Dodge / The Dodge Brothers

John and Horace Dodge.

Auto barons John (1864–1920) and Horace (1868–1920) Dodge were born and raised in Niles. During the 1830s, their grandfather, Ezekiel, had migrated from Massachusetts to Niles, where he ran a steam engine shop. John and Horace’s father, ...

“Just Like Sap – Boiling, in the Stream”

1862 Peninsula Campaign

The Vermont troops waited in vain for reinforcements; Corporal Alonzo Hutchinson was mortally wounded while crossing the Warwick River and died without signaling for support. The Union leaders also failed to exploit the break in the Confederate lines. ...