Safe Haven in Lynchburg: Project Y

In 1951, the National Gallery of Art established a secret emergency repository (Code named Project Y) for its distinguished collection of art on the campus of Randolph-Macon Woman's College. The specially designed reinforced concrete building, situated at the end of ...

Pearl S. Buck

Internationally known author and humanitarian Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973) graduated in 1914 from Randolph-Macon Women’s College, where she wrote for the college’s literary magazine. She was the author of more than 70 books, many of which were best sellers. In ...

The Baltimore Battery

The Baltimore Battery (Confederate) fired from this spot into the Union forces in the Cornfield. It included a 12-pounder iron howitzer (like the small gun before you), the only one of its kind among the 500 cannon at Antietam.

Marker can ...

Bay View’s Immigrants

From a quiet mid 19th–century farming community to a bustling industrial center along Kinninckinnic Avenue in only twenty years, Bay View’s industrial transformation could not have occurred without the contributions of hundreds of immigrant workers who poured into the community’s ...

"Tyrants Fall In Every Foe Liberty's In Every Blow"

In the memory of our Scotish forebears, whose valor inspired these immortal lines by Robert Burns, this marker is gratefully dedicated by the Saint Andrew's Society of Savannah, Georgia on its 250th Anniversary.

(1737 - 1987)

3 May 1987

Marker is at the ...

The Salzburgers

[Marker's East face]:

To the Memory of the

Salzburgers

and

their faithful pastors.

Rev. John Martin Bolzius

and

Rev. Israel Christain Gronau

who for their faith in the doctrines

of Gods Word as taught

in the Augsburg confession

were banished from their

homes in Austria, and settled

in Effingham Co. ...

Francis Corbin

(d) 1767

Granville agent, jurist, legislator. Provoked "Enfield Riot." Home, "the Cupola House, " 2 blks. S.

Marker is at the intersection of N Broad St. and Queen Street on N Broad St..

Courtesy hmdb.org

Revolutionary Skirmish Near Wyboo Swamp

During Francis Marion's 1781 campaign to drive the British from the Pee Dee, he and his men clashed near here in March with British and Tory forces numbering more than 500 men. During the Wyboo skirmish a Marion private, Gavin ...

Battle of Port Royal Island

Near the old halfway house, in the

vicinity of Grays Hill, on February

3, 1779, a force of South Carolina

Militia, Continentals, and

volunteers, including men from

Beaufort, under General William

Moultrie, defeated the British in

their attempt to capture Port

Royal Island.

Marker is on Trask Parkway ...

Charles Richard Drew Memorial Bridge

Named in honor of

Dr. Charles Richard Drew, 1904-1950

esteemed citizen

of the

District of Columbia

athlete, scholar, surgeon, and

scientist whose discoveries in

blood preservation saved

thousands of lives.

Marker is at the intersection of Michigan Avenue, NE and ...