United States Post Office and Courthouse

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

United States Post Office

and Courthouse

c.1933

Marker is at the intersection of East Stewart Avenue and North Third Street on East Stewart Avenue.

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El Portal Theatre

"The Gateway"

Built • 1927-28

Architect: Charles Alexander MacNelledge

Opened June 21, 1928

This building was Las Vegas' cultural center for many years. Its 700 seat auditorium and elegant Spanish motif lobby were used for films, plays, music recitals, vaudeville shows, and high school ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bald Cypress

[Native American Agriculture]

This tree commemorates the many contributions Native Americans have made to American agriculture, plants domesticated and harvested by Native Americans in the New World still make up a significant proportion of all vegetables produced worldwide.

November 18, ...

Kent Plantation House

Kent House, the oldest known standing structure in Rapides Parish, was built by Pierre Baillio, completed in 1800. Baillio constructed the house on land received through a Spanish land grant circa 1794.

Marker is on Bayou Rapides Road (State Road 496) ...

Buckingham Baptist Church

1771 - 1949

Built in early eighteenth century

by order King of England as an

Episcopal Church. Reorganized as

Baptist Church in 1771 with

Rene Chastain, Pastor

Edgar H Patton, Pastor

Marker is on James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) 0.3 miles north of Trents Mill Road (County ...

Post-Civil War Alexandria

Side A

After having been ravaged by fire during the Civil War, Alexandria was rebuilt and, with the building of railroads after Reconstruction, regained its place as the commercial, financial, medical and transportation center of central Louisiana. By the early 1900s ...

Tryon's Camp

Before and after the Battle of Alamance, the Militia of the Governor William Tryon camped nearby, along Alamance Creek. May 13-19, 1771.

Marker is at the intersection of NC Highway 49 South and 1300 Bellemont Lane on NC Highway 49 South. ...