Pershing Hall

In honor of

John J. Pershing

General of the Armies

First Commander of

the United States First Army

August 10, 1918

Marker is on Carder Road, on the left when traveling north.

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Shiplap House

Circa 1715

One of the oldest surviving houses in Annapolis, Shiplap House served as a store and tavern in the eighteenth century. The house is named for the random-width flush siding (called shiplap) on the rear facade and northeast ell. The ...

Indian Trading Post

Site of early

Indian Trading Post

Tablets placed

By the Women

of the

Civic Improvement

Society

Of Monroe

Marker is on East Elm Street west of Tremont Street, on the right when traveling west.

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National Negro Opera Company

Here at the Cardwell School of Music, this first national Black opera company was founded in 1941 by Mary Cardwell Dawson. Noted for its musical genius, it performed for 21 years in Pittsburgh, Washington, New York, and other cities.

Marker is ...

The Rainey Plantation

July 18, 1864. The marching columns of the Army of the Tenn. (US), having diverged 5.5 mi. N.W., rejoined here when Dodge's 16th A.C. moved E. from Old Cross Keys to Rainey's. Blair's 17th A.C. moved 1.75 mi. S. on ...

Troop Encampment Site

Company “G” One Hundred Third, Regiment of U.S. Colored Infantry, camped on this corner in January and February of 1866.

Marker is on West Hill Street (U.S. 84) 0 miles west of North Patterson Street (U.S. 41), on the right when ...

The Hospital

At Battle of Lake George

many wounded soldiers and

some with smallpox were

cruelly murdered by Indians

of Montcalm’s Army.

Marker can be reached from Fort George Road, on the left when traveling south.

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McPherson's Divergent Line of March

July 17, 1864. At this road-fork (near old Providence Church), the 16th A.C. of the Army of the Tenn. (US), enroute from Roswell to Decatur, moved by the west fork towards Nancy's Creek where it camped near old Cross Keys.

The ...

Old Whipping Post

Public whipping for minor crime was a custom brought from New England by Monroe's earliest American settler's. Not general in the midwest, the punishment was administered here chiefly to ne'er-do-wells whom the citizens wished to be rid of.

Peter P. Ferry, ...

Darby Plantation

The old Marietta Rd. joined the Sandtown Rd. here -- 1864.

June 17-19. Geary’s (2d) Div., 20th A.C., supporting 13th N.Y. & Pa. E batteries, were N. of rd. & Cox’s (3d) Div. 23d. A.C., supporting 1st Ohio Bat. D. [US] ...