Paulus Hook

Washington’s “Flying Camp” here in 1776. Later fort held by British during entire war despite American attacks.

Marker is at the intersection of Grand Street and Washington Street, on the right when traveling east on Grand Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Copacabana Fort

Army History Museum

Together with the Arpoador Rock and Cape, the Fort is part of an important landscape group located between two highly populated neighbourhoods: Copacabana and Ipanema.

Date: inaugurated in 1914 by President Marechal Hermes da Fonseca.

Last Restoration: in 1987, with ...

Post Office and General Store

(Latta, S.C.)

In rural communities throughout the country, the local general store was the focal point of town activities. Not only did these stores serve to provide the necessities of life, they offered a gathering point for the exchange of information ...

Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church

This one-story Victorian Gothic structure dates back to 1870. The cornerstone of the church indicates that the building was constructed in 1870 with the basement added in 1890. This suggests that the original wooden church was raised, a basement added, ...

Site of the Old Baptist Meeting House

" Here, in 1794, I had the happiness,

instrumentally, to lay the foundation of

a place of worship which composed of

the best materials, and classes with the

most neat and commodious Baptist

meetinghouses in the United States."

(Rev. Henry Holcombe, First Fruits ...

Joseph Jenkins Roberts

[Southwest face:]

Resident of Petersburg

1815-1829

First President of the Republic of Liberia

1848-1855 + 1871-1876

[Northeast face:]

Joseph Jenkins Roberts worked on Union Street, about 100 yards northwest of here.

This marker was authorized June 7, 1977 by the City Council of Petersburg.

Hermanze E. Fauntleroy, ...

Samuel Pleasants Parsons House

Completed in 1819, 601 Spring Street was the home of Samuel Pleasants Parsons (1783-1842). Parsons, a Quaker, was an early reform-minded superintendent (1816-1822, 1824-1832) of the Virginia State Penitentiary, formerly located across Belvidere Street. The Parsons family was part of ...

Kerr Place

An eighteenth century mansion acquired in 1950 by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society as headquarters for the society.

Marker is on Market Street near Crockett Ave., on the right when traveling west.

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In Memory of Hualapai Ancestors

Yu’ Nyihay Jamj Vo:jo

We honor our ancestors who died violent deaths at the hands of their captors and at this concentration camp. We greet the spirits of our ancestors and embrace their strength and above all else, their will to ...

Hutto Baptist Church

Hutto Baptist Church was formally organized in 1882. Served by ministers Abram Weaver and Joseph Gronde, the congregation met in the local schoolhouse until a sanctuary was constructed in 1883. Destroyed by a storm in 1886, it was rebuilt twice ...