Taft Museum of Art

Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft House

This Federal house was begun about 1820 for Martin Baum (1765-1831), one of Cincinnati's early merchants. Art patron and abolitionist Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863) lived here for more than thirty years and commissioned the notable landscape murals in the foyer ...

Bachelor Officers’ Quarters

The BOQ housed unmarried officers. Captains and majors lived on the second floor in their own suites with private baths and sitting rooms. Lieutenants occupied single bedrooms and shared a bathroom on the top floor. The first floor was the ...

Greetings to Future Harrisburgers

In a shaft directly beneath this monument, in a metal cylinder is contained a documented history of Harrisburg from it's early beginnings along with evidences of the way of life in our time.

It is our fervent hope that you will ...

Forest Lodge

Opulence in Glen Allen

John Cussons built Forest Lodge as a resort along the Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac Railroad where it intersects with Mountain Road in Glen Allen. The luxurious hotel had 125 rooms and stood six stories high. It took ...

Site of First and Second State Capitals at Sacramento

Sacramento’s first county courthouse, formerly located on this site, served as California’s State Capital from January 16, 1852 to May 4, 1852 for the third session of the legislature and from March 1, 1854 to May 15, 1854 for the ...

Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps

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Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. George Greene, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Greene's Division having turned the enemy's right in the East Woods advanced against the Confederate infantry north and east of this point, which retired to the woods west of the ...

Fort Lewis

Pre-Revolutionary stronghold of the pioneers of this section against the Indians.

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (U.S. 11) and Hawley Drive, on the right when traveling north on West Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cincinnati Riots of 1884 / Sheriff Morton Lytle Hawkins

Side A: Cincinnati Riots of 1884

In March 1884, public confidence of Cincinnati law enforcement was extremely low. The public believed that murderers and other serious offenders were not brought to justice promptly or received little punishment. Civil unrest ...

Vallejo Flour Mill

Site of flour mill, Niles, built 1853 by Don Jose De Vallejo, brother of General Vallejo, on his Rancho Arroyo De La Alameda. Niles was once called "Vallejo Mills". Stone aqueduct carrying water for mill parallels Niles Canyon Road.

Marker is ...

The Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. Stephen & Cathedral House

Although the Founder of Harrisburg, John Harris, Jr., was a member of the Church of England, it was not until 1826 that a permanent Episcopal church building was erected here. Consecrated on St. John's Day, 1827, by Bishop William White, ...