King Beaver's Town

Present Beaver perpetuates the name of a Delaware chief and of his village near here. Its location along the Ohio-Beaver River trails gave it importance in the fur trade.

Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Street (Pennsylvania Route 68) and ...

The Breathing Association

The Breathing Association was founded in 1906 as the Tuberculosis Society under the leadership of public health advocate Carrie Nelson Black. The society provided nutrition, medical care, and sanitorium services to people who could not afford proper medical care. A ...

Town of Victoria

The town of Victoria, located halfway between Roanoke and Norfolk, was conceived in 1906 when the Virginian Railway was built to transport coal from Southwest Virginia to Tidewater. Henry H. Rogers, builder of the Virginian Railway, probably named the town ...

Goshen Korean War and Vietnam War Monument

Dedicated To

The Men And Women Of Goshen Who Served Their

Country During The Korean War And Vietnam Eras

Almstedt Joseph • Angelovich John A. • Anstett Gerald L. • Anstett Richard W. • Barker Frederic T. • Barrett John J. • Benedict ...

Road to Disaster

On June 25, 1755, the largest army assembled in North America up to that time passed this spot. British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock led the first 1,400 soldiers of his 2,400-man army along a 12-foot-wide road. Lt. Col. Thomas Dunbar ...

A Secret Grave

Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock—commander-in-chief of British forces in North America—traveled over the road trace below on June 25, 1755. Marching north with his 2,400-man army, the 60-year-old Braddock was under orders to capture Fort Duquesne and force the French from ...

The State House

Built 1838–1861

A total of 15 commissioners, seven architects, and numberless artisans built this Grecian Doric State House of local limestone and brick from Indian mound clay at a cost of $1,359,121. Experts today marvel that so many diverse personalities could ...

First Church on Manhattan Island

1633

The site of the

first church built on

Manhattan Island

Evaradus Bogardus, Dominie

This tablet erected by the

Daughters of Holland Dames

1933

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Mrs. Samantha Jane Neil

Amelia Court House, Virginia

Amelia County is largely indebted to one woman for bringing formal education and religion to African Americans after the Civil War. In 1865 Mrs. Samantha Jane Neil left her home in Pennsylvania to search for her husband’s ...

Palmetto Regiment

East Face

South Carolina

To

her sons

of the

Palmetto Regiment

Who fell

in the

War with Mexico

Anno Domini

1847.

Marker can be reached from Assembly Street near Gervais Street.

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