The University of Alabama School of Law

Founded in 1872 as the first law school in Alabama. Henderson M. Somerville was the first professor and later an Alabama Supreme Court Justice. The first dean was William L. Thorington (1897-1908). The school occupied, in turn, parts of Woods, ...

Union Hall Independent Missionary Baptist Church of Christ

Five families withdrew from the Liberty Hill Baptist Church to form an independent missionary Baptist church of Christ in 1888. The Rev. G.W. Capps was called as the first pastor. A one room schoolhouse was soon erected on donated land. ...

McKim Free School

Before Baltimore's public school system opened in 1829, education was the concern of charitable and religious organizations. An early leader in the education movement was the McKim Free School, established through a bequest of Quaker merchant John McKim. In his ...

Tudor Hall Field Quarter

Tudor Hall Plantation

The environment in front of you recreates elements of a plantation Field Quarter of the 1800s. The slaves who provided agricultural labor on farms like Tudor Hall lived in areas like this in the years before the ...

Headquarters of Opechancanough

Near here stood the town of Menmend, home of the paramount chief Opechancanough. During Powhatan's reign, Opechancanough was a king of the Pamunkey and a war chief of the Powhatans. He became paramount chief about 1629 when his brother Opitchipam ...

150th Birthday of the USMA

Dedicated to the United States

Military Academy on its one

hundred and fiftieth birthday

March 16, 1952 in memory and

honor of the men of West Point

who have contributed so much

to our development in the

Signal Corps Air Service

Air Corps Air Forces

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West Lafayette War Memorial

Dedicated Sunday May 28, 1972

by the citizens of this community

in honor of those who served

their country in time of war.

Marker is on Plainfield Road (Ohio Route 93), on the right when traveling south.

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150th Anniversary of the USMA

Presented to

The Corps of Cadets

by

The Brigade of Midshipmen

United States Naval Academy

in commemoration of

the 150th Anniversary

of the founding of the

United States Military Academy

1802 1952

Marker is on Thayer Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Northport First United Methodist Church

Organized 1837, moved to present location, 1849, where churches have been rebuilt in 1855 and 1913.

The bell of this church sounded the tocsin at the approach of Gen. John T. Croxton’s Union troops in the their raid on Tuscaloosa, April ...

The Boisseau Family Cemetery

Tudor Hall Plantation

Many nineteenth-century Virginians buried deceased family members near their homes rather than in distant church yards. While we do not know when this cemetery was established, the only grave marker on this property belonged to Martha Eliza T. ...