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 ...

T.B. Sheldon Memorial Auditorium

Theodore B. Sheldon, prominent local grain merchant and business leader, bequeathed to the City of Red Wing half of his estate to be used for a public purpose. After his death in 1900, his trustees chose to construct the T.B. ...

Jacob Snyder House

Jacob Snyder

House

Known in 1802 as

"Yankee Pete Tavern"

Original Inn Destroyed

During Revolution

Marker is on New York Route 443, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Shelby Furnaces

Erected 1849 and 1863

Major source of pig iron for the Confederacy. Furnished iron to Selma arsenal for heavy cannon, naval armor plate.

Furnaces destroyed in 1865 by Wilson’s Cavalry raiders U.S.A.

Rebuilt 1873, closed 1923.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main ...

Buckman Tavern

In 1714, Lexington selectmen gave John Muzzey permission to keep a “Publique House of Entertainment.” On Sundays townspeople came here for a hot flip and a warm fire after sitting for hours in the unheated church.

John Buckman owned this inn ...

Millbrook Baptist Church

[Front]:

This church, formally organized in 1884, had its origins in a Sunday school class organized in 1874. With 16 charter members and Rev. Arthur Buist as its first minister, Millbrook built its first sanctuary here in 1886. The frame church, ...

Site of Church of Lyman Beecher

Here Stood The Church In Which

Lyman Beecher Preached 1810 – 1826

One Half Mile North Stood The Home

Where Were Born

Harriet Beecher Stowe – 1811

Henry Ward Beecher – 1813

Erected By

The Litchfield County University Club

– 1908 –

Marker is at the intersection of East ...

Old Quinn Burying Ground

Established June 2, 1849 by

Veteran of War of 1812

Loftin Quinn

In Consideration of His Love for the Church, He Conveyed the Burying Ground to the Trustees of Liberty Church And Their Successors.

Listed on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register

Erected by Friends of ...

Battle of Savannah

En l'honneur des valliants Français

qui se sont sacrifiés en cet endroit

pour notre liberté le 9 Octobre, 1779

In honor of the valiant Frenchmen

who gave their lives on this battlefield

for our freedom on 9 October, 1779

Les Sociétés ...

Battle of Campbell's Station

The Federal Gen. Ambrose Burnside, pursued by Gen. James Longstreet from Lenoir's Station via Concord, eluded an attempt by Gen. Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., coming from Loudon via the Hotchkiss Valley and Kingston Roads, to head him off at the junction ...