Prophet’s Rock

Where the Prophet sat and sang to encourage the Indians in the battle of Nov. 8th 1811.

Erected 1929 by General De Lafayette Chapter D.A.R.

Marker is on Prophet's Rock Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

[Engraved into the limestone at the base of the tower]:

1776

The

Prison

Ship

Martyrs

Monument

1908

[Plaque on monument's opposite side from engraving]:

In memory of the 11,500 patriotic American Sailors and Soldiers who endured untold suffering, and died on the British prison ships, anchored in Wallabout during ...

Potawatomi ‘Trail of Death’ Route

Indiana to Kansas, September 4 - November 4, 1838

The 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe on this site was decisive, leading to the loss of their homelands and the removal of Indians from Indiana.

At Gunpoint, about 850 Potawatomi passed this location on ...

The North Church / An Teampall Thuaidh

A 13th century reconstruction on the foundations of an earlier monastic building, used as a small parochial church after the monastery at Monasterboice had come to an end. It remains little of architectural interest. The east windows and most of ...

Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen

As a University of Kansas student in 1905, Phog Allen played basketball for the inventor of the game, Dr. James Naismith. His performance produced three Letters from 1905-1907 and earned him a place on the roster of the K. C. ...

White Sulphur Springs

Situated on what was once a Mexican Land Grant to Dr. Edward Bale, White Sulphur Springs was discovered in 1848 and a resort was opened in 1852, making this California’s oldest. Wealthy San Franciscans traveled here in the latter half ...

Joseph R. Lamar, Associate Justice

Supreme Court of the United States

Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857-1916) lived in this manse from 1860-1875 while his father, James Sanford Lamar, was pastor of First Christian Church. A prominent attorney, he served two terms in the Georgia legislature and codified ...

First Ebenezer Baptist Church

This congregation began when a handful of slaves gathered for services on the Rhodes Plantation in August 1812. In 1851 Absalom A. Rhodes sold a quarter acre of land here for two dollars to the deacon board of Ebenezer Baptist ...

The Residents of White Springs

Florida's native Timucuan Indians lived for hundreds of generations in what is now north Florida and southeast Georgia. Beginning in the 1580s, they were organized into mission villages by Spanish Franciscan priests. While exploitation and epidemics caused native populations to ...

Oldest Building in High Point

Colonial home of Mary and Philip Hoggatt

A Quaker Potter

Typical example of a Pre-Revolution home

Built in Guilford County ca. 1754

In continuous use until the 1960’s.

1996 State Regents Project

Mary Ann Groome Helper, State Regent

Marker is at the intersection of E Lexington Avenue ...