Ritchie's Birthplace

Here was born Thomas Ritchie, November 5, 1778. In 1804, he established the Richmond Enquirer, which ran until 1877, the most noted of Virginia newspapers. Ritchie was a political leader in Virginia and an editor of national fame. In 1845, ...

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, ...

Seven Days' Battles

Jackson's March to the Battefields

Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops passed through this intersection on 27 June 1862, having arrived from the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson's troops united with Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces just south of here ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The Laboratory opened September 2, 1952 at this site, initially as a branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Prior to the Lab's opening, this 630-acre parcel was the site of Livermore Naval Air Station, a World War II ...

The Limestone Bank Barn

1871

Built for a livestock farm by Seth Hays, the first permanent white settler in this area. The Barn is 41 feet wide and 76 feet long. The rafter beams are put together with wooden pegs. The barn is constructed of ...

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. ...

West Point Bicentennial

1802 – 2002

In Commemoration of

the 200th anniversary of

the Founding of

the United States Military Academy

at

West Point

Presented by the

Association of Graduates

16 March 2002

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

Courtesy hmdb.org

Skyline Boulevard

Dedicated by

The City of Reading

to those citizens who in a period

of economic depression labored to

build this boulevard,

1932 - 1935

Mayor

Heber Ermentrout

Councilmen

William J. Smith • George M. Yocom

Jesse George • William C. Hoverter

Frederick A. Muhlenberg • Emil L. Nuebling

John H. Rorke

Superintendent of ...

Castle Hill - Daly Bottom Community

In 1883 the Castle Hill Real Estate and Manufacturing Company began the first eastern expansion of the original 1821 Tuscaloosa city limits. Hoping to stimulate development in the area, the company created a popular amusement park centered around and artificial ...

Brigham Young Summer Home

On this site in 1870, the first house in Soda Springs, Uppertown was built under the direction of John Walmsley. It was a one room log cabin twenty-two by eighteen feet, with floor, windows, and shingle roof, known as the ...