Swiss Family de Candolle

— Ici —

Ont vécu et travaillé

Pendant un siècle

Les botanistes Genevois

Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle

— 1778 – 1841 —

Alphonse de Candolle

— 1806 – 1893 —

Casimir de Candolle

— 1836 – 1918 —

Augustin de Candolle

— 1868 – 1920 —

Translation:

— Here —

Lived and worked

For a century

Genevan ...

Seven-Foot Knoll Lighthouse

Seven-foot knoll lighthouse was the second screwpile structure to be built by the U.S. Lighthouse Service. It was originally located 15 miles southeast of this location. The 42 foot high round screwpile lighthouse was completed by the Baltimore "ironfounders" firm ...

Bridging Gwynns Falls

The lofty, triple-arched Baltimore Street Bridge was built here in 1932 to provide better access across the Gwynns Falls Valley to the city's rapidly developing west side. Earlier, the Frederick Turnpike crossed farther south on a relatively short, low bridge ...

The California Peace Officers Memorial

In Tribute

Since statehood, the people of California have sought and cherished a quality of life unsurpassed in this great nation. There have been among us those who chose to serve as peace officers and when called upon unselfishly gave more ...

Governor Knowles State Forest

The St. Croix River winds its way through wild and scenic countryside from its origin in a Spruce-Tamarack swamp near Upper St. Croix Lake. The waters of the Namekagon join the St. Croix 45 miles upstream from this sign. The ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

The Union Counterattack

As the fight progressed, the Confederates met stiffening resistance. Lee and his subordinates realized they had too few troops to hold their advanced position. They determined to withdraw to the slight earthworks constructed by the Federal soldiers just ...

Old Coffee Road

The Old Coffee Road, a pioneer vehicular and postal route, passed here. Beginning at the Ocmulgee River, below Jacksonville, it ran some 120 miles via

today´s Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida Line. The thoroughfare was opened by ...

Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses

Through this square ran the southern line of defenses of the British who held Savannah from December 29, 1778 to July 11, 1782. After a seige of 22 days, at dawn of October 9, 1779, the strong western defenses on ...

Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Kentucky's Most Famous Citizen

Birth of a Legend

Kentucky's

Most Famous Citizen

Colonel Harland Sanders began the part of his life that brought him fame in a small gasoline service station on the opposite side of this highway. Born on September 9, 1890, near ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

March 31, 1865

Early on the morning of March 31, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent most of a division forward to attack the Federals from this location at White Oak Road. Fighting through the morning, the Confederate brigades enveloped ...