Henry J. Heinz

(1844-1919)

From a start in 1869 selling bottled horseradish, Heinz built an international firm by 1886. He pioneered innovative advertising, quality control, and benevolent employee policies and transformed modern diets.

Marker is at the intersection of 16th Street and Progress Street, on ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Charleston, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

Marker is on Jackson Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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Sir John Colleton

(1608-1666)

Colonel in English Civil War

Gallant Naval Officer

Retired to Barbados

County Named for Him

Marker can be reached from Richland Street.

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Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Paris, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

Marker is at the intersection of Central Avenue and Wood Street, on the left when traveling south on Central Avenue.

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L. B. J. Boyhood Home

Sam Ealy Johnson Jr. (1877-1937) and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson (1881-1958) bought this residence in 1913. Sam, an educator and six-term Texas legislator, and Rebekah, an educator and journalist, raised five children here. The frame house was built in ...

Death of Col. John Allen

Col. Allen tried vainly to rally the retreating Americans at the second Battle of the River Raisin, Jan. 22, 1813. Exhausted and disabled by a thigh wound, he faced the pursuing Indians near here. The colonel desperately defended himself at ...

Tribute to Navajo Code Talkers

This tribute represents the spirit of the Navajo Code Talkers, a group of more than 400 U.S. Marines who bravely served their country during World War II.

Their mission: to utilize the Navajo language in the creation of an unbreakable secret ...

John De La Howe School

Still Caring...Still Dreaming

The establishment of John de la Howe School, the second oldest institution in the Carolinas, is one of the first examples of individual philanthropy that is found in the history of child-caring institution in the United States. The ...

Saint Joseph Church

The cradle of African-American Catholicism in Delaware, St. Joseph Church was organized in 1889 by Father John A. DeRuyter of the Josephites. Services were first held in the basement of St. Mary’s Church on 6th and Pine Streets. Incorporated as ...

Maj. Gen. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, C.S.A.

Civil Engineer, graduated West Point 1822. Among engineer officers sent to assist railroad companies, surveyed first route of B&O, 1827. Resigned commission to pursue distinguished railroad career. Enlisted in Confederate Army after Baltimore riots, 1861. Led brigade at Cedar Mountain, ...