Dr. Hugh Williamson

Signer of the Federal Constitution, member of Congress, historian. Home was 4 blocks S.E.

Marker is at the intersection of South Broad Street (Business U.S. 17) and East Queen Street, on the right when traveling north on South Broad Street.

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John Harvey

Five times speaker of colonial assembly, moderator of provincial congresses, 1774-1775, leader of Revolutionary movement. Lived 11 mi. S.

Marker is at the intersection of Dobbs Street (Business U.S. 17) and South Church Street (Business U.S. 17), on the right when ...

Chowan County Courthouse

Oldest courthouse in use in North Carolina. Built about 1767. Whig centre in Revolution. Stands 3 blocks S.E.

Marker is at the intersection of South Broad Street (Business U.S. 17) and East Queen Street, on the right when traveling north on ...

Maple Leaf

A Great Escape

Currituck County played a vital role in a prisoner-of-war escape in 1863. At 1:30 P.M. on June 10, the troop-transport steamer Maple Leaf sailed from Fort Monroe, Va., for Fort Delaware, carrying 97 captured Confederate officers bound for ...

Armour and Swift Plaza

Designated as a state archeological landmark in 1987. This plaza honors the meatpacking industry, which helped make Fort Worth the livestock center of the southwest.

In 1901, both meatpackers signed identical contracts with the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company, giving the ...

Ausborn House

Sniper’s Nest

Bullet holes around the upstairs window of the Ausbon House are haunting reminders of a fight to the death here on December 10, 1862, when a Confederate sniper refused to surrender. Hoping to drive out the U.S. forces occupying ...

CSS Albemarle

Ironclad Gunboat

In 1863, 19-year-old engineer Gilbert Elliott contracted with the Confederate Navy Department to construct an ironclad gunboat designed by John L. Porter, the navy’s chief architect. Elliott built the vessel at Edwards Ferry on the Roanoke River, 60 miles ...

Fifty Star Flag

Bicentennial Flag Memorial

With the admission of Alaska in 1959 and Hawaii in 1960, the present fifty-star flag came into being. Like other flags of our nation, the fifty-star flag has seen the varied conditions that can beset a dynamic association ...

Forty-Eight Star Flag

Bicentennial Flag Memorial

The obligations and responsibilities of becoming an imperial power as a result of the Spanish-American War quickly multiplied. The international problems that arose in Latin America, in the Philippines, and in China saw the first application of Theodore ...

Night at the Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory

Latitude Observatory Park

Each night an observer would conduct a series of tasks as they made and recorded their observations; including rotating, aligning, and leveling the telescope, taking numerous readings of stars, weather and other factors.

A typical night at the observatory ...