City of Richmond Bicentennial

On July 2, 1782, the people of Richmond gathered near this site to elect twelve citizens and constitute their first city government, known as the Common Hall. The next day, the Richmond Common Council held its first meeting on the ...

Eugene J. Bullard, 1895-1961 / World’s First Black Combat Aviato

Eugene J. Bullard, 1895 - 1961

Bullard grew up in a small shotgun style house near this site. His father, William, was a laborer for the W. C. Bradley Company. Eugene completed the fifth grade at the 28th Street School. Shaken ...

Milford Memorial Flag Pole

[ panel 1 ]

In Grateful Remembrance

World War II 1941 – 1945

and

Korean Conflict 1950

Adams, Thomas D. •

Allison, Eli

[ panel 2 ]

Almquist, Edward F. • Anderson, Christian A. Jr. • Anderson, James H. • Beaudette, ...

Capture of Boonville

To commemorate the battles

June 17th. and Sept. 13th. 1861

and capture of Boonville

Oct. 16, 1864

See marker four blocks south

Monument Committee G.A.R.

C. C. Bell, Commander

F. J. Boller, Quartermaster.

1931

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Missouri Route 5/87) and Court Street, on ...

Naval Assault at Drewry’s Bluff

On May 15, 1862 a small federal fleet including the ironclads, the Monitor, the Galena, and three wooden war ships sailed up the James River to try to enter the Confederate capital at Richmond. Their efforts were blocked at Drewry’s ...

Freedom Road

Michigan Legal Milestone

Beginning in 1829, Penn, Calvin, and Porter townships in Cass County were settled by Quakers who migrated there. Free Blacks also settled there, and both groups lived in harmony. Blacks in Cass County enjoyed many rights, such ...

Battle of Plum Run Bend

On May 10, 1862, Confederates defeated the Union navy in one of only two Civil War gunboat fleet engagements on the Mississippi River, ramming and sinking two Union ironclads, Cincinnati and Mound City. A reinforced Union armada routed the outnumbered ...

In Honor of Nathaniel Haraden

In Honor Of

An Intrepid Son of Gloucester

Nathaniel Haraden

Sailing Master of The

U.S. Frigate Constitution

Commended for Gallantry in Action

At the Seige of Tripoli, August 3, 1804

Placed by the City of Gloucester - 1932

Marker is at the intersection of Western Avenue (Massachusetts Route ...

Nearby On This Tract of Land Called Mount Vernon

Stood the home of Colonial Patriot

John Wallace, Junior

February 15, 1755 - May 1811

Founder

of

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania - 1797

The town laid out in 1797 was named Waynesburg until 1831.

The plot included the original "settlement" which came to be

called Wallacetown in honor of John ...

Milford Korea - Vietnam Monument

[ southeast side ]

“We mourn the fallen,

We grieve for the missing,

We celebrate the return of

Our valiant men and women”

[ northeast side ]

Vietnam

1961 – 1973

[ southwest side ]

Korea

1950 – ...