Koloa, Birthplace of the Hawaiian Sugar Industry

The Beginning. Near this site, on September 12, 1835, William Hooper began clearing 12 acres of land to plant sugar cane. The land was part of 980 acres leased by Hooper’s employer, Ladd & Co. of Honolulu. The land was ...

Clara Barton’s Birthplace

1630 – 1930

One mile westward Clara Barton, "the angel of the battlefield," was born in 1821. A volunteer nurse in the Civil War, she served the International Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian War, founded the American Red Cross and served ...

Birthplace of Numismatic News

Side A

The first issue of “Numismatic News” was born here Oct. 13, 1952. From this start over the next 50 years grew Krause Publications, a business that published 50 periodicals and hundreds of book titles.

The idea for the paper was ...

Birthplace of Herman Melville

On this site, number 6 Pearl Street, Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819. Author of Moby Dick, “Bartelby the Scrivener,” Pierre, Billy Budd and many other American classics.

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Pontiac Birthplace

Here, in 1712, was born the

Great Indian chief who in-

Cited Pontiac’s Conspiracy.

He federated the tribes and

With the aid of the French

threatened British supreme-

acy. Killed in Illinois in 1769.

Marker is on East River Drive (Ohio Route 424) 0.2 miles east ...

Dizzy Gillespie Birthplace

[Front]:

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was born in a house on this site on Oct. 21, 1917. His family lived here until they moved to Philadelphia in 1935. A founder of modern jazz, Gillespie was an innovative trumpeter and bandleader known ...

Birthplace of Daniel Harvey Hill

Hill's Iron Works

[South side]

Birthplace of Daniel Harvey Hill

Lieutenant General in the Confederate States Army

Soldier, Educator, Author

A worthy son of the land we love.

[East side]

S.68.44 W. 737 feet from this point was the site of Hill's Iron Works.

The original corner stone ...

General Thomas' Birthplace

General George H. Thomas, "The Rock of Chickamauga," was born on July 31, 1816, about five miles to the south. A graduate of West Point, Thomas sided with the Union during the Civil War and won distinction in the campaigns ...

William Mahone's Birthplace

Three and a half miles southwest, at Monroe, Major-General William Mahone was born, December 1, 1826. He served brilliantly in the Confederate army throughout the war, and won the title, "Hero of the Crater," at Petersburg, July 30, 1864. He ...

Birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll

When radio station WJW disc jockey Alan Freed (1921-1965) used the term "rock and roll" to describe the uptempo black rhythm and blues records he played beginning in 1951, he named a new genre of popular music that appealed to ...