Gilbert Stuart House

Sirs: I am under promise to Mrs. Bingham to sit for you tomorrow at 9 o'clock, and wishing to know if it be convenient to you that I should do so, and it shall be at your house...

The new ...

Labor Wars

Miners Win 8-hour Day

Underground gold mining was difficult, dangerous, labor intensive work. Two major labor conflicts between the Association of Mine Owners and the Western Federation of Mines (WFM) Labor Union changed Victor and Gold Camp forever.

The first labor war ...

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.

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Battle of Elizabethtown

Whigs broke Tory power in Bladen County, August, 1781, driving them into Tory Hole, 50 yards north.

Marker is on West Broad Street (North Carolina Route 87) west of Poplar Street (U.S. 701), on the right when traveling west.

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Brickyards

After the disastrous fires that swept through Kewaunee County in 1871, a more substantial building material was sought and brickyards made their appearance in several locations in the county.

A good supply of clay located in the area between here and ...

Bear Mountain Bridge Toll House

This property has been placed on

the National Register of Historic Places by

The United States Department of the Interior

Dedicated on September 22, 2002

New York State

and

Town of Cortlandt

Marker is on Bear Mountain Bridge Road (U.S. 6) ½ mile north of Roa ...

William Bruce

William Bruce founded and platted the city of Eaton in 1806. Born in Virginia in 1762, Bruce relocated to Ohio in 1793. In 1806, he purchased nearly two thousand acres of land from the government for the founding of Eaton. ...

Robert Morris (1734 - 1806)

Financier of the Revolution

Robert Morris risked his life, wealth, and reputation to help create the United States of America. A patriot, he signed the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution.

An immigrant orphaned at 16, Robert ...

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 ...

Second Bank of the United States

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This Building Erected in 1817

for a branch of the

Second Bank of the United States

was acquired in 1835, and has been

occupied continuously since that

date by the Bank of Charleston

whose name was changed in

1926 to

The South Carolina National Bank

This was the ...