Japanese Stone Lantern - Lighting the Way

Each year, the National Park Service and the National Council of State Societies conduct the Lantern Lighting Ceremony. The Embassy of Japan appoints a Cherry Blossom Princess for the occasion. As the audience counts down from five, the lantern ...

Home of Gen. Joseph Wheeler

1836~1906

"Fighting Joe Wheeler"

Confederate Cavalry Commander

of Army of Tennessee.

Major~General, Cavalry,U.S.A.

in Spanish American War

Soldier~Statesman~Author~Planter

One of Alabama's representatives

in the Statuary Hall in Washington.

Marker is at the intersection of Alternate U.S. 72 and County Road 377, on the right when traveling east on U.S. ...

Confederate President Jefferson Davis

1808-1889

Friend of Texas. Visited first as officer Mexican War 1847. As U.S. Secretary of War in 1855, built up frontier forts to open West Texas to settlers. Camels imported for patrols, hauling.

His Postmaster-General and personal aide were Texans, as ...

John Hanson "Hance" Steelman

(1655-1749)

Indian trader and interpreter of Maryland and Pennsylvania. First settler in this valley. Born of Swedish parents along the Delaware. This tablet erected by Liberty Twp. and Fairfield Area Bicentennial Cmte. First Marker Placed in 1924 by Pennsylvania Historical Commmission

Marker ...

Rev. Joachim Bulow.

In Memory of the Rev. Joachim Bulow.

Organizer and first Pastor of St. Pauls

Lutheran Church about 1761

Marker is on Wicker Rd (South Carolina Route 773).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nickajack Gap

The road E. ascends Taylor’s Ridge & via Nickajack Gap, crosses E. Chickamauga Cr. Valley.

May 7, 1864. Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick’s (3d) Div., Elliott’s Cav. Corps (Army of the Cumberland) [US], moving from Ringgold, crossed Taylor’s Ridge at Nickajack Gap, ...

Old Town Jail

1883

The town of Georgetown built this small stone jail in the summer of 1883, using steel cells donated by the county. Built at a cost of $700, the stone jail was known for awhile as the "Hotel de Barr," after ...

Jenkins Orphanage

In 1891 the Reverend Daniel J. Jenkins established a home and school for poor, black orphans and for children of poor, distressed and disabled parents. It was his desire "to train the minds and hands of young, black boys and ...

Joseph Funk

March 9, 1777

Dec. 24, 1862

“Father of song in Northern Virginia”

Teacher, translator, author

Publisher, printer

In 1816 he published “Choral Music”; in 1832 the first edition of “Genuine Church Music.” Here in 1847 he and his sons began printing, first the fourth edition ...

Martha Jane Ogle Cabin

This cabin is the first house built in what is now Gatlinburg. About 1802, William Ogle selected a building site near here, in what he called "The Land of Paradise." Ogle cut and hewed the logs for the house then ...