Richfield Pioneer Homestead

General Riley Lucas Bartholomew

Born the son of 1812 War Veteran, Benjamin Bartholomew, and a grandson of Revolutionary War heroes, Benjamin Bartholomew and Abigail Patchen Bartholomew, Riley was the oldest of 12 siblings living on a frontier farm in Harpersfield, Ashtabula ...

Petersburg Defenses

Batteries 35-38

You are facing Battery 37 in the 10-mile-long Confederate defensive line constructed between 1862 and 1864 east and south of Petersburg. Named the Dimmock Line for supervising engineer Capt. Charles H. Dimmock, it consisted of trenches linking 55 earthen ...

Mesa Pioneer Monument

This monument is dedicated to the founding men, women and children of Mesa whose efforts, with others of all races, religions and cultures, changed a harsh desert land into this vibrant city of today.

When the first settlers came in 1877-78, ...

Immaculate Conception Catholic School

Immaculate Conception

Catholic School

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

September 23, 2003

First school built in 1864

Present school built in 1908

B. Stanley Simmons, architect.

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC

[Panel 1]:

St. Mary’s was the first Episcopal church in Washington where African Americans could worship free of discrimination. It was established in 1867 by 28 men and women, many of them formerly enslaved. Two White ...

The First Mahkato Memorial Wacipi

This memorial is to honor those Dakota who created the First Mahkato Wacipi in 1972.

The Wacipi is to remember the thirty-eight Dakota executed in Mankato in 1862 and to create a spirit of reconciliation between the people of Mankato and ...

First Baptist Church

(Front text)

Organized in 1813 with 13 members, this branch of Stateburg's High Hills of Santee Baptist Church (founded before 1772) became an independent congregation on September 24, 1820. It became known as Sumterville Baptist Church, and among early ministers ...

The Trolley Line & Hocker Grove Amusement Park

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

A few years after the closure of Merriam Park, Richard Weaver Hocker developed the second largest amusement park in Merriam. Named Hocker Grove after its founder, the park was established in 1907 and remained in ...

The Footlight Players Workshop

20 Queen Street

The building at 20 Queen Street was built circa 1840 for use as a cotton warehouse. It is considered a notable example of vernacular warehouse architecture in Charleston, influenced by Roman Revival and West Indian architecture. In ...

Brockman Park

Upper Plaque:

Dedicated to the memory

of

Dr. William Thomas Brockman

A distinguished Surgeon

-- Humanitarian --

Churchman

Citizen and Commissioner of the City of

Greenville, South Carolina

1881 ---- 1968

Lower Plaque:

Brockman Park

In honor of Dr. Thomas Brockman

for his many contributions

as alderman for the city of

Greenville, S.C.

Marker is at ...