Montreal Point in 1782

The Huron First Nation's gift to the Roman Catholic Church

In the year 1782 the Huron First Nation gave Montreal Point to the Diocese. The Jesuit Fathers constructed the Assumption Parish in 1787, the first Roman Catholic Parish west of ...

Phillips 66 Petroleum Company Gas Station

Built in 1930 by the Independent Oil

and Gas Company, this Tudor

Revival style gas station was

purchased by Phillips 66 Petroleum

Company the same year. The

original "house" style brick building

was modified in the 1940s to the

L-shaped plan seen today. Gas was

sold and vehicles ...

American Legion Post 206 Veterans Memorial

Honoring all veterans

of all wars and conflicts

engaged by the United States

Marker is on Military Avenue (U.S. 69) near 14th Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Old Powder Magazine

The Old Powder Magazine

is the only public building remaining from the era of the Lords Proprietors, the eight English aristocrats who owned Carolina from 1670 to 1719.

Charles Town, as the capital and southernmost English settlement on the continent, ...

Marne Post 370 Veterans Memorial

In Memory Of

Those Who Made The

Supreme Sacrifice

From Our Community

In The Service

Of Our Country

Erected By

Marne Post 370

American Legion

1947

Marker is on Gleneida Avenue (New York Route 52) 0.1 miles north of Stoneleigh Avenue (U.S. 6), on the right when traveling ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872 - 1906

Paul Laurence Dunbar, born on Howard Street in Dayton, was the first African American to be accepted into the discipline of American literature. The son of a fugitive slave, Paul was an eloquent poet, short story writer, and ...

Campbell's Covered Bridge

In the earliest of times the rock shoal upstream of the bridge was used as a ford until a flat bridge was built across Beaverdam Creek. In Monday, August 24, 1908 starting at 7:00 p.m., twenty inches of rain fell ...

Poulain DuBignon and DuBignon Burying Ground

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This burying ground contains the bodies of several members of the du Bignon family, descendants of Le Sieur Christophe Poulain de la Houssaye du Bignon, native of Saint-Malo in Brittany. One of four Frenchmen, former residents of Sapelo Island, who ...

An Unexpected Clash

July 22, 1864. The attack by Walker's & Bate's divs. (Hardee's A.C.) (C.S) struck the two brigades Mersy's & Rices's, of Sweeny's 16th A.C. div. (U.S.) enroute to support the 17th in E. Atlanta.

Walker's troops came up Sugar Cr. valley ...

The Bear Pit

Merriam Historic Plaza

The Bear Pit Bronze sculpture by artist Kwan Wu. Dedicated and installed 2006.

This sculpture by artist Kwan Wu represents the City of Merriam's first public sculpture installation. The mother bear and cubs celebrate one of the most popular ...