Chamber of Commerce / Liberty Tower

65 Liberty St, James B. Baker, Architect, 1901 /

55 Liberty St, Henry Ives Cobb, Architect, 1910

Chamber of Commerce

Even when it opened in 1901, 65 Liberty Street seemed like a tiny jewel among the towering behemoths of the ...

Ann I. Baker / Ann I Baker (1873 - 1931)

Ann I Baker

Ann Baker had idea for professional women's club in Paducah. Business Women's Club held first meeting, Sept. 1920, chartered Oct. 1920. Name changed to Paducah Business and Professional Women. Baker also served as first president of Ky. Federation ...

Tennessee ~Tombigbee Waterway

Paducah: Mid~America's Gateway to the Gulf

This historic waterway reaches from Paducah to Mobile, providing a navigational artery between the upper Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Rivers and the Gulf of Mexico's east~west Intracoastal Waterway and deepwater ports. The Tennessee~Tombigbee Corridor includes ...

Ohio State Bar Association

1880-1980

On this side, then known as Case Hall, the first meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association was held July 8, 1880.

Dedicated May 21, 1980

Marker is at the intersection of Superior Avenue (U.S. 6) and East 3rd ...

Birthplace of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Birthplace of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Feb 8, 1820; John Sherman – Statesman, May 10, 1823.

Marker is on East Main Stret (U.S. 22) east of Broad Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tombstone City Hall

Opened in 1882

Architect Frank Walker designed this building in Victorian style adapted to Western Territorial. It is constructed of fired red brick. It has been in continuous service since 1882 for Mayors, Marshals and official city offices. In the 1880's ...

First National Bank

Moving from a modest first floor site on Logan Street, this “modern banking house” was constructed in 1910 as the first new building of the decade. It features a limestone facade and ionic pilisters [sic - pilasters] in the neo-classical ...

Action at Osborne's

On 27 April 1781, Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold led the British army's 76th and 80th Regiments, the Queen's Rangers, and some other units in an assault at Osborne's in Chesterfield County. The Americans posted a number of Virginia Navy ships ...

A Crucial Crossing, a General’s Namesake, a Battlefield Icon

Known at the time of the battle as the Rohrbach or Lower Bridge, this picturesque crossing over Antietam Creek was built in 1836 to connect Sharpsburg with Rohrersville, the next town to the south. It was actively used for traffic ...

The Bradley Massacre

Near this spot, on May 14, 1856, a Seminole war party attacked the home of an early settler Capt. Robert Duke Bradley of the Florida Foot Volunteers. Two of the Bradley children were killed before the Indians withdrew. This was ...