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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM545_richmond-evacuation-fire_Richmond-VA.html
After midnight on 3 April 1865, Confederatesoldiers set fire to several tobacco warehousesnearby on orders from Lt. Gen. Richard S.Ewell, as the army evacuated Richmond andmarched west. Two distinct fires spreadrapidly throughout the commercial an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM544_st-andrew-skirmish_Panama-City-FL.html
Near this site on March 20, 1863, Confederate soldiers commanded by Captain Walter J. Robinson repelled a landing by Union sailors led by Acting Master James Folger of the blockading vessel U.S.S. Roebuck. The 11-man scouting party of Union sailor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM543_national-road_Washington-PA.html
Our first national road; fathered by Albert Gallatin. Begun in 1811 at Cumberland, Md.; completed to Wheeling in 1818. Toll road under State control, 1835-1905. Rebuilt, it is present U.S. Route 40.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM542_the-st-andrew-bay-saltworks_Panama-City-FL.html
Between 1861 and 1865, the St. Andrew Bay Saltworks, one of the largest producers of salt in the South, contributed to the Confederate cause by providing salt, fish, and cattle for southern troops and citizens. A necessary preservative in those ti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM541_samuel-barber_West-Chester-PA.html
Boyhood home of this composer of orchestral and vocal works, including the "Adagio for Strings" and Knoxville; Summer of 1915." Won Pulitzer Prizes in music, 1958 & 1963. Graduate, Curtis Institute. He wrote West Chester High's Alma Mater song.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM540_horace-pippin_West-Chester-PA.html
Born in West Chester in 1888. Pippin occupied this house from 1920 until his death in 1946. A self-taught black artist, he painted while living here such notable works as "Domino Players," "John Brown Going to His Hanging," and the "Holy Mountain"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53Z_robert-lee-mckenzies-home-and-office_Panama-City-FL.html
(Front Side): The McKenzie House is a large two-story clapboard frame dwelling built in the Dutch Colonial style typical of the turn of the century houses still standing in Northern Michigan.
It was built 1909 by Belle Booth who married R. L. M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53Y_site-of-first-school-house-in-west-chester_West-Chester-PA.html
(Turk's Head), built of logs, 1760. Used as a hospital for American wounded after the Battle of Brandywine, Sept, 1777. Some soldiers died and were buried here in the schoolyard.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53X_g-raymond-rettew_West-Chester-PA.html
A West Chester chemist, he pioneered the mass production of penicillin, the world's first antibiotic. In 1943, with Wyeth Laboratories, his lab (a converted auto repair shop here) made & sent more penicillin to the Armed Forces than any other lab …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53W_the-treasury-building-of-the-confederate-states-of-america_Richmond-VA.html
This wall was once a part of the Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America.
In it were the offices of the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Treasurer of the Confederate Government.
Here t…