Purple Heart Memorial

Combat Wounded Veterans

Dedicated to all men and women

wounded in all our wars.

My stone is red for the blood they shed.

The medal I bear is my country’s way

to show they care.

If I could be seen ...

Birthplace of Mary McLeod Bethune

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This noted humanitarian and educator was born five miles north of Mayesville, S.C., on July 10, 1875. She was one of the first pupils of the Mayesville Mission School, located fifty yards west of this marker, where she later ...

Pangborn Memorial Campanile

National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes

Ave Maria

This monument is dedicated to the glory of God and His Blessed Mother.

It is erected on the site of the “Old Church on the Hill,” which was built in 1805 Father John ...

Centennial Park Caboose

Centennial Park was dedicated on August 25, 2001 to all the past, present and future generations of Bonner Springs and to all the citizens and business owners that have made our city what it is today. This park is a ...

First Presbyterian Church

Rev. B. M. Hobson of Lexington, Mo. a Presbyterian preached in a grove of elms near 3rd & Miami in the summer of 1855. On 1 Jan. 1856 Rev. C. D. Martin of Philadelphia organized the First Presbyterian Church ...

Powell of the Colorado

On August 30, 1869, Major John Wesley Powell landed at the mouth of the Virgin River, about 12 miles south of here, thus ending the first boat expedition through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.

The expedition left Green River ...

Thorogood Plantation / Mount Holly Plantation

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Thorogood Plantation

In 1682 the Lords Proprietors granted 3,000 acres here, on a branch of the Back River, to Joseph Thorogood (d. 1684). Though Thorogood only owned the plantation two years and his widow Jane sold it after ...

An Upper-Class Neighborhood 1630s-1699

From the 1630s to the end of the 17th century, this area along Backstreete boasted some of the finest dwellings in Jamestown. Governors, councilmen, burgesses, and lawyers all made this neighborhood home.

Richard Kemp, an ardent supporter of Governor Harvey, secretary ...

Midway Congregational Church 1872 - Present

Dorchester Academy

The Old Midway Congregational Church, two

miles east on U.S. Highway 17, was formed

by whites (Puritans & Congregationalists )

when they settled in Liberty County. They

were driven to church by their black slaves

who were allowed to sit in the ...

St. Vincent de Paul Church, 1835

The Parish of St. Vincent de Paul is the direct successor of the many and often interrupted endeavors in the Niagara area since 1626. At first concerned with native peoples, later French and then English-speaking priests came as chaplains for ...