Our Lady of the Wayside

Built in 1912 this country church was the first executed design of noted architect, Timothy L. Pflueger, who had just begun work for James Miller. An awareness of the Spanish California Missions inspired the style, which contrasts with the large ...

The First Telephone

At this site the first

Telephone

was installed in Las Vegas

Dedicated during Las Vegas'

Diamond Jubilee

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Fremont Street and South Main Street.

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Confederate Printing Plant

(Front text)

From April 1864 to February 1865 Confederate bonds and currency were printed and processed in this building, constructed in 1863-64 for the printing and stationery firm of Evans & Cogswell. That firm, founded in Charleston, produced bonds and ...

Frances E. Willard

Inspired by San Francisco in 1883

Became the first world organizer of women.

Standing here in 1883 she said "We are one world of tempted humanity"

Marker can be reached from 34th Avenue.

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The First Thanksgiving

Late in November 1597 a colonizing expedition headed by Don Juan de Oñate left Santa Barbara in northern Chihuahua headed for what is now New Mexico. Four hundred men led the way, 130 of whom had wives and children. There ...

Freedom Plaza

Civil War to Civil Rights

“I have a dream.”

                            Martin Luther King, Jr. August 1963

The block-long plaza at 13th and Pennsylvania Avenue just ahead to ...

Holmes County Draft Riots

On French Ridge in Richland Township, on June 5, 1863, local citizens in defiance of conscription attacked Elias Robinson, an enrolling officer of the Union Army. When Captain James Drake, the provost marshal, imprisoned the ringleaders, armed locals released them. ...

America's First Battle of World War II: The Philippines

For America, WWII began of December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first of Japan's day-long assault on locations throughout the Pacific. Major American installations on Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, were also devastated; so ...

This Flag Pole

Dedicated as the permanent memorial

of the 200th Anniversary of

The Battle of Lexington

April 19, 1775

First armed conflict of

the American Revolution.

Lexington Bicentennial Corporation

1976

Right Marker:

This flag of the

United States of America

is flown on this pole

24 hours a day

by act of Congress

of the United ...

Pyle's Defeat

A body of Tories, going to join Cornwallis' Army at Hillsborough, was destroyed by a Whig force, Feb. 23, 1781. ¾ mile southwest.

Marker is on Maple Avenue near Anthony Road, on the right when traveling south.

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