The United States Court of Claims

The United States Court of Claims held its first meeting in "Willard's Hotel" on this site on May 11, 1855. The court was established to allow citizens to sue the U.S. Government. In 1861, President Lincoln wrote of the court:

The Army of the James Monument

(north face)

Sacred

to the

Lamented Dead

of

The Army

of the James.

(south face)

Erected

by the direction of

Maj. Genl. B.F. Butler.

George Suckley.

Surg. U.S. Vol.

Colonel and Medical Director

H.B. Fowler.

Surg. 12. N.H. Vol.

Surgeon in charge of

Point of Rocks hospital.

Geo. Jones.

Hospital Chaplain

1865.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of North ...

Relief Society Granary

In 1876 President Brigham Young called the women of the Relief Society to gather and store wheat to be used in times of need. Pleasant Green Relief Society was organized in 1879, Charlotte Hirst, President. June 24, 1885, a rock ...

Lest We Forget

Beneath this hallowed ground lay the remains of fifty-five Confederate soldiers. They gave their lives to establish southern independence, protect their homes, and preserve states rights. These original headstones were placed in May 1903 by the Joe Wheeler Chapter of ...

Solomon's Lodge No. 1 F. & A.M Savannah, Georgia

Organized as a Masonic Lodge, February 21, 1734. Its first worshipful Master was General James Edward Oglethorpe, English Soldier, Statesman, Humanitarian, and founder of Georgia, who raised the flag of England at Savannah on February 12, 1733.

Chartered by the ...

Fair Prospect Cemetery Montgomery County

Atop this hill lies Fair Prospect Cemetery, established in the 1840s as part of Fair Prospect Church. Land was donated for the church and cemetery by Benjamin Mitchell (1765-1848) and his wife Jane Scrimpton Mitchell (1775-1850). The location of their ...

Freemasonry in Macon

Freemasonry came to Macon in 1824 when the city was in its infancy. Macon Lodge No. 5, F. &A.M., was organized in 1824 and chartered by the Grand Lodge of Georgia in 1825. Historians have referred to Macon lodge as ...

Capture of Savannah December 29, 1778

When the British attacked Savannah on December 29, 1778, the defending Continental forces, numbering about 650 men under command of Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, were posted across Sea Island Road (now Wheaton street) approximately 100 yards east of this marker.

The ...

Home of John Garwood / Garwoods Mill Site

Logan County, On Top of Ohio

[South Side of Marker]: Home of John Garwood

In 1805 the John Garwood family of thirteen children located their home near this spot. Their activities here were responsible for the town of East Liberty. The village ...

The Fairfax Family

Belvoir was the home of William Fairfax from 1741 until his death in 1757. William Fairfax hand seven children, four by his marriage to Sarah Walker: Sarah, Ann, Thomas and George William. After Sarah Walker Fairfax's death in 1731, William ...