Civil Liberties at Dorchester Cooperative Center 1940 - present

Dorchester Academy

In an effort to involve Liberty County African Americans in politics, the Dorchester Cooperative Center (DCC) began to help organize

African American Voters. The DCC taught local African Americans the United States and Georgia constitutions, followed the activities of state ...

Packers Island

Island in the river served as a site for clam bakes, picnics, and other public affairs. A flax mill located on the island in the mid-1800s.

Marker is on New Jersey Route 31 just south of W. Woodschurch Road, on the ...

Horace Pippin

1888-1946 home of noted Afro-American artist. Attended nearby segregated school 1902 Metropolitan Museum Exhibit 1995.

Marker is on West Main Street 0.2 miles west of Greenwich Avenue (New York Route 207), on the left.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pioneer Emigrant Trail

This boulder was known to the pioneers as the Indian Medicine Stone. On its top are hollows in which the Indians lay while taking sun baths to cure their ills. One branch of the Emigrant Trail leading from Truckee Pass ...

Ten Stamp Mill

"Six tall, upright rods of iron, as large as a man's ankle, and heavily shod with a mass of iron and steel at their lower ends.." So begins Mark Twain's description of a Nevada stamp mill.

"...These rose and fell, ...

Multiple Purpose Management in Action

This young Ponderosa Pine forest was thinned by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 to improve the growth of the remaining trees[.] The first commercial harvest was made in 1959 when the area was thinned again for posts and poles. ...

Bethel Baptist Church

(Front text)

Bethel (Black River) Baptist Church was organized in 1780 and admitted to the Charleston Baptist Association in 1782. Its mother church was High Hills Baptist Church. Bethel was incorporated in December 1823. The Reverend Solomon Thomson served as ...

Dickason Park / Toppe Field

Major Dickason / Erhardt Toppe

Major Dickason

Major Elbert Dickason founded Wyocena in 1843. He platted and named the village in 1846. He was instrumental in Wyocena being temporarily named the county seat. He died in 1848 and is buried in the ...

Harry S. Truman Birthplace Memorial

This shrine is dedicated to

Harry S. Truman

Thirty second [sic] President

of the United States of America

who was born at this location

May 8, 1884

[died] Dec. 26, 1972

"I ask only to be a good and faithful

servant of my Lord and my People."

H.S.T.

County Judge ...

Howard C. French / Alexander Pearson

[Top marker]:In loving memory of

Howard C. French

Major Air Corps Reserve

1894 – 1938

Dedicated by his comrades of the 321st Observation Squadron

United States Army Air Corps Reserve

[Bottom marker]:

In loving memory of

Alexander Pearson.

Lieutenant Air Corps

1895 – 1924

Presented by his comrades of the Engineering ...