The Site of Hardscrabble Riot 1824

The site of Addison Hollow where the first nineteenth century blacks purchased property and the site of the first major riot

Marker is on North Main Street (Rhode Island Route 1), in the median.

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A Thoroughfare Town

This intersection was the earliest center of colonial Providence. A grist mill stood just north, at the falls of Moshassuck River, and a tannery and taverns were nearby across the street. In 1676 the natives of many tribes united against ...

Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks

Built about 1868, soon after the U.S. Army's post-Civil War reoccupation of Fort Duncan, this building played a part in aviation history when the first military cross-country flight, from Fort McIntosh in Laredo, landed here in 1911. By 1932 the ...

Gabriel Bernon

Near this spot lived Gabriel Bernon a Huguenot Refugee

Born Larochelle France April 6, 1644

Died Providence February 1, 1736

Merchant Colonizer Churchman

Marker is on Canal Street, in the median.

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Tompkinsville National Cemetery

In 1861, during Civil War, land was donated by J.B. Evans for burial of Union soldiers. By end of the war, it contained 115 troops who died in this region. Due to small size and remote location, most soldiers moved ...

Fort Duncan

Established by Captain S. Burbank, first U.S. Infantry, March 27, 1849 as a protection to western communication. Garrisoned by Federal troops until March 20, 1861 and since 1868. Now known as Camp Eagle Pass

Marker is at the intersection of South ...

Hell on the Hatchie

Engagement at Davis Bridge

Here along the Hatchie River, Confederate and Union forces fought a short but brutal battle. Repulsed with devastating losses from an unsuccessful attempt to retake Corinth, the Confederates discovered their retreat blocked when Union troops from Bolivar, ...

Blackdom Townsite

West of this location stood the now abandoned community of Blackdom. The community was founded circa 1908 by Francis Marion Boyer and his wife Ella. Several dozen African American families homesteaded nearly 15,000 acres of land and built a self-sustaining ...

Roswell Pioneer Plaza

This location incorporates two of downtown Roswell's most historic buildings. East of this location is the Chaves County Courthouse, built in 1911. It is one of the best surviving examples of courthouses built in the Beaux Arts Revival "monumental civic ...

Anvil Firing

This monument dedicated to the fond remembrance of Archie Arbuckle who from false Armistice Day 1918 until his death July 11th, 1970 fired the anvil each 4th of July.

Anvil firing has been a tradition with the Arbuckle family for 5 ...