"Flower the Tower"

Convention Center Service Project

Founded in 1905, Rotary International is headquartered in Evanston, Illinois and is the world’s oldest service organization. This plaque is erected on the occasion of the 92nd Annual Convention in which more than 20,000 Rotarians from over ...

Moore-Trapman-Wragg House

Charleston Historic District

The National Register

of Historic Places

South Carolina

Department of Archives

And History

Moore-Trapman-Wragg House

Charleston Historic District

Marker is on Broad Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Fire Devils

The 788th Co. was nicknamed the Fire Devils because of its reputation for putting out prairie fires while stationed at Camp Ruteledge in Minnesota. The nickname remained with the company throughout service. The men were proud of their reputation and ...

Harper Cemetery

Passing through this region in 1747, Robert Harper — a Pennsylvania architect contracted to build a Quaker church in the Shenandoah Valley — was so impressed by the beauty of this place and the water-power potential of the Potomac and ...

Washington’s Lookout

~ Great Notch ~

On October 23, 1780, the light

infantry was stationed here.

The hill on the east side of

the Notch was used by

Washington as a lookout

from which to observe the

movement of his troops.

Marker is on Rifle Camp Road, on the right ...

James Whitcomb Riley

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 40) east of State Street (State Road 9), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Davis Island Lock and Dam

Below this bridge was the first lock and dam built (1878-1885) on the Ohio River. This was the world's largest movable dam yet constructed, and included the world's first rolling lock gate and widest lock chamber. Built and operated by ...

Eagle’s Nest

Four miles north is Eagle’s Nest, the seat of the Fitzhugh and Grymes families, and the core of a 17th-century plantation. Lawyer and planter William Fitzhugh I (165–1701), born in Bedford, England, immigrated to Virginia by 1674 and acquired vast ...

Lee’s Mill Earthworks

These earthworks were part of General John B. Magruder’s second line of defense. At this site on April 5, 1862, Confederate General Lafayette McLaw’s four companies of the Tenth Georgia with Captain Joseph B. Cosnahan’s two batteries stopped the advance ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah – the March to the Sea. He divided his army (US) into two wings. The ...