Site of Hilltop Park

Dedicated to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and the community of Washington Heights by the New York Yankees to mark the exact location of home plate in Hilltop Park, home of the New York Highlanders from 1903 to 1912, later renamed the ...

Douglas International Airport

At this location on June 5, 1933, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dedicated Douglas International Airport as the first international airport in the United States.

Designed by J. P. Sexton as the first and only truly ...

Birthplace of Herman Melville

On this site, number 6 Pearl Street, Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819. Author of Moby Dick, “Bartelby the Scrivener,” Pierre, Billy Budd and many other American classics.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Neillsville Post Office

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Neillsville

Post Office

1937

Henry Morgenthau Jr

Secretary of the Treasury

James A Farley

Post Master General

Louis A Simon

Supervising Architect

Neal A Melick

Supervising Engineer

1937

Marker is at the intersection of Hewett Street and East ...

Humphrey DeForest Bogart

1899 - 1957

This site is the childhood home of

Humphrey DeForest Bogart

1899 - 1957

Mr Bogart lived at this site from the time he was born until 1923. During a film career that spanned nearly 30 years and ...

Birth Place of Jennie Jerome

In this house in January 1850 was born Jennie Jerome later Lady Randolph Churchill.

She was the mother of The Rt Honorable Winston Spencer Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain and staunch friend of the United States.

This plaque is ...

Japonica Hall / Maj. J.J. Lucas

[Front]

This house, built in 1896-97 and designed in the Beaux Arts style by noted S.C. architect Charles Coker Wilson, was the home of Maj. James Jonathan Lucas (1831-1914). An earlier house here, which burned in 1892, had been the ...

Society Hill Presbyterian Church

[Front]

Was organized August 12, 1891 with 17 charter members, by a commission of the Pee Dee Presbytery under Revs. J. G. Law, J. G. Richards, and W. B. Corbett. Elders H. A. Womack and J. S. McCall and deacon ...

Oz Park

Oz Park was created in 1974, as part of an renewal program for the Lincoln Park area. Historically, the neighborhood underwent numerous population shifts and by the 1950s home ownership was declining and many buildings were in sub-standard condition. The ...

River Town Development

Many Heritage Highway communities began as river settlements. Beatrice was founded in 1857 near the bend of the Big Blue River. The first building, known as Pap Towle's cabin, was constructed just north of the present Gage County Historical Society ...