General Benning

Opposite this marker stood the home of Henry Lewis Benning (1814-1875), the Confederate Brigadier General for whom Fort Benning was named. He was married in 1839 to Mary Howard Jones, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Seaborn Jones.

General Benning was ...

Rankin Building

Built in 1905 by Mrs. James Rankin

after fire destroyed two city blocks

Palm Garden Grill

W.C. Reed - Confectioner & Stationer

E. Pasch - Haberdasher

A.B. Wilson - Jeweler & Optician

Historic Marker No. V

Martinez Historical Society

July 4, 1990

Marker is on Main Street near Ferry ...

The Capitol Building

Under construction for thirty-seven years, the Capitol building was completed in 1903 at a cost of $3,200,588.92. It was considered among the most architecturally handsome buildings in the nation.

At a height of 304 feet, the Kansas Capitol is slightly taller ...

Martinez-Benicia Ferry

"Gateway to the Gold Fields"

Founded by Dr. Robert Semple in 1847, the Martinez-Benicia ferry was the first established and longest operating ferry service in the S.F. Bay Area. In 1850 Oliver Coffin took over the operation and with his brothers ...

Birthsite

Martin Van Buren, eighth

President of the United

States, was born at this

site December 5, 1782.

Marker is at the intersection of Hudson Street (County Route 21) and Jarvis Lane, on the right when traveling east on Hudson Street.

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Big Lime and Big Injun

The Greenbrier Limestone in the quarry represents the “Big Lime and Big Injun Sand” of the driller. Fish-egg like (oölitic) zones in the “Big Lime” and the basal sandy formation, the “Big Injun,” produce oil and natural gas in West ...

Wabuska

Wabuska (the Washoe Indian term for White Grass) was first established in the early 1870's as a station on the stage and freight road from Wadsworth on the Central Pacific to the roaring mining camps of Aurora, Bodie, Candelaria, Columbia ...

Pierce Butler

Signer of the Constitution of the

United States of America

Deputy from South Carolina to

Federal Constitutional Convention

May 25, 1787-September 17, 1787

Erected by the Pennsylvania

Constitution Commemoration

Committee 1937

Marker can be reached from 2nd Street.

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Jacob Broom

In honored memory

of

Jacob Broom, Signer

of

United States Constitution

by the

Delaware State Society, NSDAR,

in

This bicentennial year 1987

Marker can be reached from 2nd Street.

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The Original Eight Bells in this Church

Brought from England in 1754

Proclaimed our Independence

on July 4, 1776

Two bells were added in 1947

in memory of the men from this

the oldest business neighborhood

in the United States of America

who served in World War ...