Colonel Matthias Slough

1733-1812

Officer in Revolutionary War

Member of General Assembly

Coroner who presided at inquest

of Paxton Massacre

Proprietor of White Swan Tavern

Member of St. James Church

Marker can be reached from Orange Street.

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Jasper Yeates

1746 - 1817

Member of

Committee of Correspondence

During Revolution

Judge of the Supreme Court

of Pennsylvania

Delegate to the State Convention which

Ratified the Constitution of

the United States

Man for Whom

Yeates School was named

Warden and Vestryman of

St. James Church

Marker can be reached from Orange Street.

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The Temperance Movement Battled Madison's Breweries

The Madison Heritage Series

Owning a State Street beer establishment wasn’t easy in the early 1900s. As the temperance movement gathered momentum throughout the country, increasing numbers of Americans wanted alcohol consumption outlawed.

Founded in 1863, Hausmann’s Capital Brewery flourished on the ...

Jessie Menifield Rattley Municipal Center

Newport News, Virginia

Jessie Menifield Rattley (1929-2001) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She moved to the Virginia Peninsula to attend Hampton Institute. After graduating with honors in 1951, Mrs. Rattley established the first business department at Huntington High School. In 1952, ...

St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church

Designed by H.P. Schnetzky and E.R. Liebert, erected in 1891-93, and designated in 1973 as a landmark of the City of Milwaukee in recognition of its architectural and historical significance to the community.

Marker is at the intersection of North ...

The Battle of Hartsville

December 7, 1862

After marching 24 miles in four inches of snow and crossing the icy Cumberland River, Colonel John Hunt Morgan and 1,300 men attacked the Federal 39th Brigade under the command of Colonel Absalom B. Moore. Although greatly outnumbered, ...

Syndicate Building

ca. 1909

Tenants of this two storefront building have

been Maxwell Brown's Fancy Groceries,

Mitchell's Grocery, Jack Schulman's

Clothing, and Freeze Drug Co. The Woodmen

of the World Hall was upstairs.

Marker is on North Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Battle of Natural Bridge

March 6, 1865

Site of decisive repulse of Federal forces by Confederate Militia in joint U.S. Army and Navy Operation to take St. Marks.

The Army landing at lighthouse was prevented from getting to rear of St. Marks by Confederate ...

Rest well, Miss Mattie

Mattie Harris Lyon, 97, the “Mother of Marietta,” was known for her years of zealous and affectionate service in religious, civic, welfare and patriotic activities. Her life was dedicated to the service of people of all races. A true humanitarian, ...

Branch Bank of the State of Georgia at Eatonton

In the Dec. 4, 1818 Georgia Journal directors of the Bank of the State of Georgia at Savannah announced a meeting on Jan. 1, 1819 to appoint 7 directors and a cashier for the branches established at Eatonton and Greensborough. ...