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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OX_salem-methodist-church_Cape-Charles-VA.html
1.8 miles east of here stood Salem Methodist Church (1836-1918), scene of the initial violence resulting from the schism between northern and southern Methodists in 1846. A northern circuit preacher was dragged from the pulpit by members of the co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OW_tarletons-last-fight_Gloucester-Point-VA.html
Here, at the Hook, Tarleton, commanding the cavalry of Cornwallis's army, fought an action with Choisy's French force and Virginia militia, October 3, 1781. The Duke de Lauzun's cavalry charged Tarleton, who retired to Gloucester Point. There he w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OV_memphis-martyrs_Memphis-TN.html
In August, 1878, fear of death caused a panic during which 30,000 of 50,000 Memphians fled this bluff city. By October, the epidemic of yellow fever killed 4,204 of 6,000 Caucasians and 946 of 14,000 Negros who stayed. With some outside help, citi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OU_thomas-calhoun-walker_Gloucester-Courthouse-VA.html
Here lived Thomas Calhoun Walker, the first black to practice law in Gloucester County and a civil rights spokesman who vigorously advocated education and land ownership for blacks. Mr. Walker was elected for two terms to Gloucester's Board of Sup…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OT_first-white-house-of-the-confederacy_Montgomery-AL.html
Designated Executive Residence by theProvisional Confederate CongressFebruary 21, 1861. President Jefferson Davis and his family lived here until the ConfederateCapitol moved to Richmond summer 1861.Built by William Sayre 1832-35 at Bibb and Lee S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OS_gault-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
Gault Street was one of the historically black residential streets in North City. Many residents worked at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Fountain of Youth, laundries and ice plants that were once located in the area.
Three …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OR_the-toledo-and-ohio-central-railroad_Newark-OH.html
The path lies on the rail bed of the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad, the first railroad constructed through this region in 1877. Primarily a coal hauling line from the mines of the Ohio River valley to northwest Ohio, the T & OC also offered the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OQ_the-battle-around-the-redoubts_Highland-Falls-NY.html
Brigadier General George Clinton, the Governor of New York State, commanded Fort Montgomery during the battle of October 6, 1777. Aware the British were approaching, he ordered some of his men to take a 3-pounder cannon down the western road leadi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OP_north-redoubt_Highland-Falls-NY.html
The term redoubt at Fort Montgomery means a strong point in the fort's walls. There were three redoubts at Fort Montgomery, including the North Redoubt, which you see here. Two of the redoubt's walls projected out from the fort so that enemies app…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OO_the-town-of-ebenezer_Rincon-GA.html
Ebenezer was laid off in 1736, after the plan of Savannah, covering an area of a quarter of a mile square. Besides the homes, the plan included a church, parsonage, an academy, orphan house, public storehouse and market places.
A thriving town …