Site of Mission La Purisima Concepcion, 1780-1781

In October 1780, Father Francisco Garces and companions began Mission La Purisima Concepcion. The mission/pueblo site was inadequately supported, colinists ignored Indian rights, usurped the best lands and destroyed Indian crops. Completely frustrated and disappointed, the Quechans (Yumas) and their ...

St. Philip's Church

Here in the churchyard of

St. Philip's are buried

Charles Pinckney

(1757-1824)

Signer of the United

States Constitution

and author of the famous

"Pinckney Draught"

Governor of South Carolina

U.S. Senator & Congressman

Minister to Spain

Edward Rutledge

(1749-1800)

Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Company

1889 - 1939

This plaque is dedicated in memory of A. H. Rogers the founder, and the employees of the former S.W. Mo. Elec. Ry. Co., which was headquartered in Webb City, operating over a 94 mile system serving the Tri-State ...

Shepheard's Tavern

[South Side]:

On this site stood Shepheard's Tavern

The birthplace of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish

Rite of Freemasonry

The Mother Supreme Council of the World

May 31, 1801

[West Side]:

Founders of the Supreme Council

Abraham Alexander

Sovereign ...

Joppa Community

Some of the first settlers in this farming and ranching community were the William Alexander Faires family in 1874 and the Martin Luther Ater family the next year. The settlement was called "Pool Branch" for a nearby pool formed by ...

Library of the American Philosophical Society

Held at Philadelphia

for promoting useful knowledge

begun by Benjamin Franklin 1743

reorganized under its present name

1769

Marker is at the intersection of 5th Street and Chestnut Street on 5th Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry / Solomon's Lo

On this site stood the

building in which the Supreme Council, 33°,

Mother Council of the World,

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite

of Freemasonry, was founded

May 31, 1801, A.D., corresponding to

Sivan 19, 5561, A.M.

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Solomon's Lodge No. ...

A Permanent Post

By 1863 the Drewry’s Bluff post expanded into a military city. Hundreds of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines camped on these grounds. The Confederate States Naval Academy held classes in buildings and aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, anchored ...

Shiloh Baptist Church

The Church began in 1866 with seventy ex-slaves who met in a private home (Doc Walton), then under a brush arbor, followed by a log cabin church and later in a framed church; this burned in 1898 and was replaced ...

Monocan Indians Village of Pineville (Michaux)

Capt. Christopher Newport visited here in 1608. The Massinacack Tribe of the Monocan Confederation inhabited this area. Near here are the remains of the once thriving village of Pineville (Michaux) settled by French Huguenots.

Four homes built by the Michaux family ...