M.E. Thompson and the Purchase of Jekyll Island

Melvin E. Thompson, Acting Governor, 1947-1949, was born in Millen, Jenkins County, Georgia, in 1903. After a career as educator and public servant, Thompson was elected Lieutenant Governor for the term beginning January, 1947. Following the death of Governor-Elect Eugene ...

Fairfield Boulder

This boulder commemorates

the settlement of Fairfield

by Roger Ludlow in 1639

and the burning of the Town

by the British July 8, 1779.

From the founding of the Town

the religious, military and civic life

of the people

has centered around this Green

Marker is at the intersection ...

City of Portsmouth

The site of this city was patented in 1659 by Captain William Carver. Established as a town in 1752 and named by its founder, Lt. Col. Wm Crawford. Chartered as a city in 1858. It has the country's oldest Naval ...

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Near this site the Sauk chieftain Black Hawk and his band were overtaken by Wisconsin and Illinois troops on July 21, 1832

Marker is on State Highway 78 0.4 miles south of County Road Y, on the left when traveling south. ...

Efforts of a Virginia Tradesman 1670s

The early English settlers came to Virginia looking for gold, silver, and precious gems, but never found them. Some of the artifacts they left behind, however, are highly valuable to the archaeologists who excavated Jamestown centuries later.

One such artifact lay ...

Fort Tyler

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125 yards northwest, at crest of hill, stood Fort Tyler - last Confederate fort to fall in War Between the States. Fort Tyler was of earthwork construction 35 yds. square surrounded by ditch 12 feet wide, 10 feet deep and ...

Home of Eugene V. Debs

Debs (1855-1926) was leading pioneer in industrial unionism, social reformer, and peace advocate.

Founded American Railway Union, 1893; cofounded American Socialist Part, 1900; and ran five times for United States Presidency.

Home built in 1890; declared National Historic Landmark, 1966.

Marker is ...

Wear's Fort

Col. Samuel Wear settled near the Mouth of Waldens Creek in 1783. He fought at Kings Mountain and later in Indian Wars, was first county court clerk of Sevier County. State of Franklin, and held the same office later under ...

Naming of Rockville

In February, 1824, this site was chosen as the permanent seat of justice for Parke County. Eight men christened the town-to-be in honor of the ancient boulders found here.

Marker is on West Ohio Street (U.S. 36) west of South Jefferson ...

Fences and Livestock

Jamestown had a large number of four-footed and feathered residents. A chronicler wrote of “two hundred … cattle, as many goats, infinite hogs in herds all over the woods.” The government required fences to keep the free-roaming livestock out of ...