Barn Bluff

"The most beautiful prospect that imagination can form," wrote 18th century explorer Jonathan Carver about the view from Barn Bluff. "Verdant plains, fruitful meadows, and numerous islands abound with the most varied trees.... But above all, reaching as far as ...

Jacob J. Abel, M.D.

1857-1938

Pioneer researcher on adrenalin, insulin, and the artificial kidney. First Professor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. For 40 years the leading pharmacologist in America.

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

Courtesy ...

Deep Bottom Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Fourmile Creek flows into the slender oxbow of the James River here. Oxbows, successive curvatures in the river’s course, forced Smith and his men to row long distances on their exploratory trip upstream. Navigating ...

Cincinnati Public Markets / The Northern Liberties

Side A: Cincinnati Public Markets

Public markets housing butchers, fish merchants, and produce vendors were once the primary source of perishable foods for residents of America's cities. Cincinnati operated nine in 1859. Only Findlay Market, built here in 1852, ...

Jacob Epstein

1864-1945

Innovative wholesale merchant to the South and collector of Old Master paintings. As a philanthropist, he inaugurated the system of matching charitable grants.

Marker is on Park Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Boxcar used in the 1st World War

Presented by the French National Railroads to the State of North Dakota in gratitude for the help given to France by the American people

Marker is on E. Boulevard Ave..

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Georgia Marble Company and the Village of Tate

The Georgia Marble Company began in 1884 as one of many small marble quarrying operations in the region. In 1905 Colonel Sam Tate became the company's president, continuing in that position until his death in 1938. Georgia Marble Company stone ...

Abram Hammond

Mar. 21, 1814 - - Aug. 27, 1874

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Governor of Indiana,

1860 - - 1861.

Lived on this site as a boy

in the “old Yellow ...

Combat Wounded Veterans

Military Order of the Purple Heart

Dedicated to all men and women wounded in all our wars.My stone is red for the blood they shed. The medal I bear is my country's way to show they care if I could ...

The Presbyterian Church

Patterson 200 Years

The Presbyterian Church

(Of Patterson / Pawling)

Present Structure, 1838

This beautiful building is the third church of the Presbyterian Congregation in Patterson. The first, often referred to as “The Old Meeting House” was located west of here, ...