Historic Pughsville Neighborhood

Pughsville was one of Winter Haven's earliest neighborhoods, populated predominately by African Americans. These individuals cleared land and settled in what is now the southwest section of the city. For many decades, Pughsville remained a vibrant and thriving community. Pughsville ...

Lower Pontalba Building

[Logo of the Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission]

Erected 1850 - 1851

by Micaela Almonster Baroness De Pontalba

working first with James Gallier, architect,

and then with Henry Howard, architect.

Samuel Stewart, builder.

Bequeathed by William Ratcliffe Irby to the ...

Tupper & Reed Building

William Raymond Yelland, Architect; 1925

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1984

John Tupper and Lawrence Reed constructed this building for their music store, which they had established in Berkeley in 1906. University of California art professor Eugen Neuhaus complimented ...

Savannah's Irish and Robert Emmet Park

Once known as the Strand and later as Irish Green because of its proximity to the Irish residents of Savannah's Old Fort neighborhood, this park was renamed in 1902 for the Irish patriot Robert Emmet (1778-1803) to commemorate the centennial ...

Beverly Public Square

This lot, originally part of the James Westfall plantation, was used as a public playground prior to the chartering of Beverly in 1790. In 1813, country plans were to use this lot as the site for the new jail. Adam ...

Robert Howe

Major General in the Revolution, commander of the American Army in the South., 1776–78. His home stood 17 miles S.

Marker is on River Road SE (North Carolina Route 133) south of U.S. 17, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Public Parks: Refuge & Recreation for All

High Point State Park

The First Public Park Was an Urban Oasis

When Europeans first arrived in America the land seemed limitless. However, by the late 1800s settlements stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. More people were living in ...

Burial Site

Quaker Cemetery bought

1833 from Darius Shadbolt

Marker is on Quaker Road 0.2 miles east of Bowerman Road (County Road 716), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tannenbaum Historic Park

Parks and Recreation Department

In 1778 Joseph and Hannah Hoskins moved to Guilford County from Chester County, Pennsylvania, and purchased 150 acres of land here from James Ross. During the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781, the British army ...

Hephzibah Methodist Church

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The Brothersville Methodist Church was organized in March 1852 in the community of Brothersville to serve the fifteen families living there. The building completed in 1853, was dedicated in 1854 by Bishop George Pierce. In 1890 the church was moved ...