Burial Place of Twenty-Nine Confederate Soldiers

Erected by the United States

to mark the burial place of

twenty-nine Confederate soldiers

who died at Fort McHenry, Maryland,

while prisoners of war,

and whose remains were there buried,

but subsequently removed to this section,

where the individual graves

Braddock’s Landing

This was the head of navigation

on the Rancocas. Before 1800

iron and charcoal were unloaded

here from wagon to barge for

shipment to Philadelphia.

1847-1997

Marker is on Mill Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Laura's Dugout Home on the Banks of Plum Creek

The Charles Ingalls Family's dugout home was located here in the 1870's. This depression is all that remains since the roof caved in years ago. The prairie grasses and flowers here grow much as they did in Laura's time, and ...

Taylor Brethren Church

During the 1880s, many Czech Protestant immigrants who settled in the Taylor area were members of the Unity of the Brethren, founded in 1457 by followers of the Czech reformer and martyr Jan Hus. These local Brethren found it difficult ...

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church was organized on this site in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Gadsden, Alabama

November 16, 1870

Bishop Robert Pain, presiding

The Centennial Convocation of the Conference was held here on November 16, 1970

Bishop ...

Pioneer Publisher and Printer David Ervin Lawhon

Born in Tennessee on June 15, 1811. While very young learned the printing trade and worked at it in some of the principal cities of the United States.

Came to Nacogdoches, Texas, in November, 1835, in answer to pleas for volunteers ...

Ralph Blaisdell and Family

Near this site on August 15, 1635

Ralph Blaisdell and family

were shipwrecked.

The ship was the Angel Gabriel

bound from Bristol, England

to Pemaquid.

From here the family

went to York, Maine

and later to Salisbury,

Massachusetts.

Marker can be reached from Bristol Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Christopher Columbus

[Front of monument]

A

Cristoforo Colombo

ligure immortale

in questa terra

divinata

dal suo genio

gli italiani

eressero

Newark N.J. XII Ottobre

MDCCCCXXVII

[Lower front of monument]

To

Christopher Columbus

Immortal Genoese

Erected by the Italians

in this land

Perceived through his genius

in the year 1492

[Back of monument]

Erected under the auspices of the Guisippe Verdi Society and ...

"Surratt Boarding House"

A historical landmark

“Surratt Boarding House”

604 H Street N.W. (then 541)

is said to have been where

the conspirators plotted

the abduction of

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

in 1865.

Plaque by Chi-Am Lions Club

Marker is on H Street, ...

The Blanchard House

Washington’s Headquarters Nov. 21, 1776 was situated about one hundred feet west of this tablet. The entrance to the old Revolutionary Bridge was nearly opposite this spot.

Reset by the Acquackanock Landing Chapter D.A.R. 1930

Marker is on River Dr, on the ...