Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company

The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad (RF&P) ran from Richmond to Washington, D.C. With only 113 miles of track, it was one of the shortest in the nation but it was the link between the North and the South. Train ...

Tom Robinson House

Home of

Quaker Tom Robinson

and his descendants

since 1759.

Headquarters of

Vicomte de Noailles, 1780-81

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Street and Poplar Street, on the right when traveling south on Washington Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Automatic Temperature Control System

1895

Warren S. Johnson (1847-1911) built and patented the first multi-zone temperature control system that could be economically manufactured, installed and maintained. The Johnson Controls pneumatic temperature control system, represented by artifacts on display in this building, became the standard ...

The Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway

From 1887-1915, seventeen locks and dams were constructed on the Warrior - Tombigbee Rivers. The first 3 were built on the fall line in Tuscaloosa. This was the site of No. 3, later No. 12.

The Warrior - Tombigbee Development Association, ...

Tomas Estrada Palma

First President of Cuba.

lived here 1879-1902

while he headed a junta which

financed the Cuban revolution.

was Cuban President 1902-1906

Marker is on New York Route 32 ¼ mile south of Edgewood Drive, on the left when traveling ...

Neon / Atomic Testing

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Neon

Neon lighting, introduced in Paris in 1910, offered a brilliant, and efficient, alternative to the incandescent light bulb. In the United States, neon's popularity soared, used to advertise motels, restaurants, theatres, and it even ...

McDonnell-Douglas F-4D Phantom II

Brigadier General Edward Cherry, USAF

General Cherry was born in Youngstown, OH, on March 4, 1939 and moved to Bowling Green, KY as an infant. He and his family lived here until his father Henry Hardin Cherry Jr., began his career ...

Gov. Troup’s Tomb

George Michael Troup, twice Governor of Georgia, lies buried here beside his brother. He died Apr. 28, 1856 while visiting here at Rosemont, one of his many plantations. Troup was born Sept. 8, 1780, at McIntosh’s Bluff on the Tombigbee ...

Old Men of Menotomy

At this spot

on April 19, 1775

the Old Men of Menotomy

captured a convoy of

eighteen soldiers with supplies

on its way to join

the British at Lexington.

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (U.S. 3) and Pleasant Street (Massachusetts Route 60), on the ...

"Mountain" Tom Clark

Hanged September 4, 1872

The notorious outlaw gang leader who boasted that no one would ever run over Tom Clark lies buried near the center of Tennessee Street where now all who pass by do run over him.

In 1872, Clark, who ...