Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building

8 Old Fulton Street

This handsome red brick building was built in 1860-61 as offices for the city of Brooklyn Railroad Company, one of New York City's first large-scale transit operators. By 1867, the company served 22 million passengers annually, operating ...

Camp Bragg Memorial

Near this spot in the autumn of

1862 the 21st and 32d Regiments

Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

were encamped for organization

before proceeding to the front.

Erected 1915

Marker is at the intersection of Hazel Street and East Irving Avenue, on the right when traveling south ...

A Monument to the Memory of Edgar Allan Poe

"My idea in designing this monument was to produce something simple, chaste, and dignified, to strike more by graceful outlines and proportions than by crowding with unmeaning ornament."

George A. Frederick, ca. 1874

The November 1875 unveiling of the Poe Monument culminated ...

Camp Rose

Civil War Training camp for then 9th Congressional District was located at the old fairgrounds. The 99th, 73rd and 87th Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiments were organized and trained here in 1802.

Marker is at the intersection of Portage Avenue and Leland ...

A La Memorie D’Edgar Allan Poe

Eternellement Cher Dans les Coeurs

De Ses Amis Francais

This memorial originally in brass, was brought from France by Count F. de Byron-Khun et Prince Edgard de Waldeck under the auspices of the French Literary Society and placed here in the presence ...

Isaac Zane & Princess Myeerah

This monument erected in memory of Isaac Zane, White Eagle of the Wyandots, and his Indian wife, Princess Myeerah, who devoted their lives to bring peace and good will between the white and red races

Near this spot established a ...

Cornet Joseph Parsons

A Founder of Northampton, Massachusetts

In Memory of

Cornet Joseph Parsons

c. 1618-1683

A founder of Northampton

and his wife

Mary (Bliss) Parsons

c. 1628-1711/12

Marker can be reached from Bridge Street (Massachusetts Route 9).

Courtesy hmdb.org

99th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps

(Around the Upper step):99th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade

1st Division

3rd Corps

(Front):Fought on this line in the

afternoon of July 2nd

Present at Gettysburg

339 officers and men

Killed and died of wounds

1 officer and 24 men

Wounded 4 officers

and 70 men

Captured or ...

Fish Hall Plantation

This plantation was part of a 1717 Proprietary landgrant of 500 acres to Col. John Barnwell. Later owners included members of the Green, Ellis, and Pope families. Nearby tabby ruins are remains of fire places of slave cabins. Graves of ...

Poe's Baltimore

A Place of Beginnings and Endings

Edgar Allan Poe, the American literary genius best known for his short stories and poems, often claimed Baltimore as his birthplace. In Baltimore, Poe found love and affection, launched his literary career - and ...