Fort Barton

Through the unrelenting efforts of Dr. James W. Holt, Jr. Fort Barton was preserved. It was given to the town of Tiverton by the Newport Historical Society in 1968. In 1777 the site was fortified by the colonial army to ...

Henry S. "Hank" Klibanoff

A keen observer and researcher of the Civil Rights Movement in the South, Hank Klibanoff won the Pultizer Prize in 2007 for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.

Inducted 2009

City of ...

Fort Ligonier

The first English fort west of the Alleghany Mountains was built five hundred feet south-east of this spot, in 1758 by order of Gen. John Forbes, and named in honor of Lord John Ligonier.

Here General Forbes with the aid of ...

Fort Defiance Flagstaff

Fort Defiance Flagstaff

All land north to Canada is surveyed on baseline running from this point.

Marker is at the intersection of Fort Street and Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Fort Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The City of Denton

Pioneers settled this locality in the 1840's. In 1846 the Texas Legislature created Denton County -- one of several carved from the Peters Colony grant. After trying other sites, the voters in 1856 accepted for county seat this tract donated ...

Santa Fe Depot

"Won't you be one of the 25,000 visitors at the Grand Canyon of Arizona this summer? It is the world's scenic wonder - nothing like it."

Santa Fe Railroad brochure, 1914.

The Santa Fe train whistle that was heard here on September ...

Major General Alfred T.A. Torbert

Torbert Memorial Statue

This memorial statue was commissioned by the Milford Museum to honor and commemorate the 175th anniversary of the birth of Major General Alfred T.A. Torbert, born July 1, 1833. General Torbert, a West Point graduate, class of 1855, ...

Milford

Town laid out by Joseph Oliver 1787. Village was located on tract then called "Saw-Mill Range". Named Milford from fording place near mill-dam erected by Rev. Sydenham Thorne across Mispillion Creek, 1787. First incorporated 1807. Old town in Kent County, ...

Fort Ligonier

The first English fort west of the Alleghany Mountains was built five hundred feet south-east of this spot, in 1758 by order of Gen. John Forbes, and named in honor of Lord John Ligonier.

Here General Forbes with the aid of ...

Forbes Road

1758

Fort Ligonier

Built by order of General Forbes. Was located 200 yards west of this marker. The road leads south-westward to 12 mile encampment. Eminent service was rendered here by Colonel Henry Bouquet and Colonel John Armstrong and in engagements with ...