Quantcast
Channel: The Historical Marker Database - New Entries
Viewing all 103096 articles
Browse latest View live

Upland Hardwoods

0
0
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
This ravine cutting into the Mississippi River escarpment, contains the last vestiges of upland hardwoods that stretch down the river from the north. Upland hardwoods covered this area before the Bluebonnet Swamp was formed . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

YRF-4C Phantom II

0
0
Houma, Louisiana.
First entering service in 1960, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom I was designed as a U.S. Navy fleet defense fighter, and was soon adopted by the U.S. Air Force as a fighter-bomber. RF-4 Phantoms also proved capable high . . .

(Air & Space • Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Women of Influence

0
0
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Fannie Vick Willis Johnson Fannie Johnson spent her life helping others and avoiding publicity. She funded two YMCAs during the days of racial segregation. The "Blacks Only" YMCA was located here with the "Whites Only" YMCA . . .

(Notable Persons • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Conerly's P.O. and Lampton's Store

0
0
Tylertown, Mississippi.
In June 1848, Benjamin Lampton and his brother-in-law Cullen Conerly established a post office here in Lampton's mercantile business. Situated on Dry Creek between Conerly's Mill and Tyler's Mill, the store and post office . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Valley Mill

0
0
Silver Spring, Maryland.
Recording the Past In 1936, John Brostup came to Colesville to take photographs for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), a New Deal federal works project established to capture pre-1860s structures on film before . . .

(Agriculture • Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Charles Heberle

0
0
Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Charles Heberle (1862-1956) was sent at age 13 from Virginia to Essex, where for three years he was indentured to the Essex Tannery. Once free, he worked nearby for a dairy farmer, Caleb Cogswell. Soon, Heberle chose . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Valley Mill

0
0
Silver Spring, Maryland.
Several water powered mills operated along Paint Branch from as early as 1723. In the 1790s, Peter Kemp built a saw and grist mill and brick miller's cottage on this site. Two subsequent mills replaced the original in the . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lt. Col. E.M. Bechet, Sieur de Rochefontaine

0
0
New York, New York.
Lt. Col. E.M. Bechet Sieur de Rochefontaine 1755-1814 Revolutionary War Soldier A French officer who fought for American independence, Rochefontaine served under the French General Rochambeau during the Revolutionary War. . . .

(Colonial Era • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Salting Fish

0
0
Gloucester, Massachusetts.
“In Its heyday as a salt fish producer; Gorton's… kept dozens of wharves and acres of flake yards busy with the unloading, filleting, salting, drying, boning, cutting, grinding, smoking, boxing, packaging, and canning of the . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Edmonston's Mill

0
0
Silver Spring, Maryland.
Outside the Mill In searching for the remains of a mill, an archaeologist is forced to ask the same questions a miller pondered years ago — where should the mill be built and what should this building look like. Of prime . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tree of Hope

0
0
New York, New York.
Tree of Hope Ground Zero workers helped plant this Norway spruce on November 22, 2003 in place of a giant sycamore tree that was struck down during the collapse of the World Trade Center. In a special Thanksgiving service, . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dogtown & Babson Builders

0
0
Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Born on Middle Street, business theorist and investor Roger Babson hired unemployed stone cutters to inscribe more than two-dozen boulders during the Depression. He hoped that words such as "industry," "initiative," and . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Paul McCartney

0
0
, United Kingdom.
Paul McCartney met Linda Eastman here on the 15th May 1967

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vicksburg's First Bank

0
0
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Planters Bank of Mississippi Built in 1834 Planters Hall housed Vicksburg's first bank. During early banking in Mississippi, state law required the bank president and his family to live on the second story of the bank. When . . .

(Notable Buildings • War, Korean • War, US Civil • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Governor "Turkey Runner"

0
0
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Governor McNutt In 1838, Alexander McNutt was elected the twelfth governor of Mississippi, serving until 1842. After two terms as governor, he moved back to Vicksburg to continue his law practice. Governor McNutt House . . .

(Notable Buildings • Notable Persons • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Historic Landmark

0
0
New York, New York.
A Historic Landmark Opened in 1796 by the Episcopal Parish of Trinity Church, St. Paul’s Chapel is the oldest public building in continuous and the only remaining Colonial-era church in Manhattan. In 1789 George Washington . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rocky Neck

0
0
Gloucester, Massachusetts.
“There were no galleries in those days and no one ever expected to sell a picture, so you weren’t interested in making it. You were only interested in actually being a good artist… And, of course, you didn’t need as much . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. William James MacNeven

0
0
New York, New York.
Dr. William James MacNeven 1763-1841 Supervisor of Hospitals for New York City An Irish Patriot, MacNeven came to America in 1805. He was instrumental in staving off cholera and smallpox epidemics in New York City. He is . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Honorable Thomas Addis Emmet

0
0
New York, New York.
Honorable Thomas Addis Emmet 1764-1827 Irish patriot An activist for an independent Ireland, Emmet came to America in 1803 and was New York State Attorney General from 1812-1813. He is buried at St. Mark’s Church . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Solomon Jacobs Landing & Park

0
0
Gloucester, Massachusetts.
"King of the Mackerel Killers" Solomon Jacobs Landing & Park were named for Captain Solomon Jacobs, who fished in the early 1900s. A native of Newfoundland, he was known as the "King of the Mackerel Killers" for his ability . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Viewing all 103096 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images