| Czech Republic, Hlavní město Praha, Prague — Ema Destinnová — Emmy Destinn |
| | In Czech: Zde žila 1908-1914 Ema Destinnová česká pěvkyné
Translated, the marker reads: From 1908-1914 the Czech singer, Emmy Destinn, lived here. — Map (db m23108) |
| Czech Republic, Hlavní město Praha, Prague — Ladislav Zelenka |
| | In Czech: Zde žil národní umělec Ladislav Zelenka 1881-1957 violoncellista slavného českého kvarteta
Translated, the marker reads: Here lived the national artist, Ladislav Zelenka (1881-1957), cellist for the famed Czech Quartet. — Map (db m22987) |
| Czech Republic, Hlavní město Praha, Prague — Rudolf Kremlička |
| | In Czech:
V tomto domě pracoval český malíř Rudolf Kremlička
Translated, the marker reads: In this house worked the Czech painter Rudolf Kremlicka. — Map (db m22972) |
| Czech Republic, Hlavní město Praha, Prague — T.R. Field Šumavansky |
| | In Czech: Zde se narodil satirik T.R. Field Šumavansky 1891-1969
Translated, the marker reads: Here was born the satirist, T.R.Field Šumavansky (1891-1969). — Map (db m22763) |
| Czech Republic, Hlavní město Praha, Prague — Vojtěch Hynais — 1854-1925 |
| | In Czech:
Zde žil a zemřel slavný český malíř
Vojtěch Hynais
Tvůrce opony národního divadla
Svemu čestnemu předsedovi jednota umělců výtvar. v praze.
Translated, the marker reads:
Here lived and and died the famous Czech artist
Vojtech Hynais
Creator of the curtains of the National Theater. Honorary President of the Union of Fine Artists in Prague. — Map (db m22657) |
| Germany, Bavaria, Munich — Franz Marc |
| | Hier wurde am 8.Februar 1880 der Maler Franz Marc geb. Gest. am 4.1.1916 bei Verdun. Er war mitbegründer der Künstlervereinigung „Der Blaue Reiter“.
Translated, the marker reads:
The painter Franz Marc was born here on February 8, 1880. Died at Verdun on March 4, 1916. He was the co-founder of the 'Blue Rider' art circle. — Map (db m22360) |
| Germany, Bavaria, Munich — Gottfried Keller |
| | Hier wohnte 1840 der schweizer Dichter Gottfried Keller
Translated, the marker reads:
In 1840 the Swiss poet Gottfried Keller lived here. — Map (db m22081) |
| Ireland, Leinster (County Dublin), Dublin — Chris Reid Oral History Artwork Project |
| | Chris Reid completed a public artwork
consisting of 20 bronze plaques and a
printed book. The texts are based on
recordings the artist made from
2004 to 2008 with residents and people
associated with Nicholas Street,
Ross Road, Bride Street and Bride
Road. Chris Reid was commissioned
through Dublin City Council's Public
Art programme, arising from the
refurbishment of these buildings
and funded by the Department
of the Environment, Heritage
and Local Government. . . . — Map (db m22480) |
| Ireland, Leinster (County Dublin), Dublin — Dublin Millenium Literary Parade — 988 - 1988 — Dublin Corporate Parks Dept. |
| | One of Dublin's major contributions to European civilisation has been in the area of literature. It is remarkable that so many writers of world renown were born here including three winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This Literary Parade honours some of our distinguished sons of literature.
St. Patrick's Park has been restored thanks to the generosity of Jameson Irish Whiskey, and the Publicans of Dublin. — Map (db m22472) |
| Ireland, Leinster (County Dublin), Dublin — First Performance of Handel's Messiah |
| | This bronze commemorates
the first performance of
George Frideric Handel's
Oratorio Messiah, given
in the Old Musick Hall in
Fishamble Street at noon
on Tuesday April 13th 1742 — Map (db m22450) |
| Ireland, Leinster (County Dublin), Dublin — Haslam Memorial Seat |
| | In 1925 a finely sculptured garden seat of Kilkenny limestone was placed in the park and inscribed on the back - “Anna Marie, 1829 - 1922 and Thomas Haslam, 1825 - 1917. This seat is erected in commemoration [sic - ‘honour’] of their long years of public service, chiefly devoted to the enfranchisement of women." [From Monuments of St. Stephen's Green marker found in the park] — Map (db m22485) |
| Ireland, Leinster (County Dublin), Dublin — James Clarence Mangan — (1803 - 1849) |
| | He has been described as the greatest poet of the nineteenth century. He died of cholera in 1849. The bronze bust by Oliver Sheppard was unveiled in 1909 on behalf of the National Literary Society.
In a niche in the pedestal is a marble head representing Róisín Dubh, the last work of Willie Pearse.
[From the Monuments of St. Stephen's Green marker found in the park.] — Map (db m22488) |
| Ireland, Leinster (County Dublin), Dublin — Saint Patrick’s Park — Páirc Naomh Pádraig |
| | Tradition has it that Saint Patrick baptised the first Irish Christians in a well, situated here in St. Patrick's Park, with water from the River Poddle, which still flows underground. A small wooden church was erected here to commemorate the event. The parish church on this site was known as Saint Patrick's in Insula (on the island) because it was located on an island between two branches of the River Poddle. In 1191 John Comyn, the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, gave the church the . . . — Map (db m22468) |
| Ireland, Munster (County Kerry), Dunquin — The Blaskets |
| | This group, the most westerly off the Irish coast, comprises 7 sizeable islands and isolated rocks spread in a line west by south over 2½ miles of the Atlantic, the largest (Great Blasket) 2 miles off shore.
Antiquities of the early Christian period include oratories, crosses and “beehive” cells on Inis Mhicileáin and Inis Tuaisceart, and church ruins on the Great Blasket.
The economy of the islands, based mainly on fishing with some farming, in 1839 supported 13 . . . — Map (db m24096) |
| Ireland, Munster (County Kerry), Listowel — "River Fort" |
| | This sculpture was designed by
local councillor and craftsman
Tony O'Callaghan
The “Standing Stone” illustrates
the River Feale
which flows around our town.
The “Ring” depicts an earthen fort
situated in the vicinity of the town
from which the town got its name
Lios Tuathail (Listowel).
— Map (db m23989) |
| Ireland, Munster (Kerry), Anascaul — Jerome Connor — Dealbhoir Cumdubh Abhanascaul — 1876 - 1943 |
| | The Irish sculptor of international stature was born in Coumduff, Annascaul in 1876. His family emigrated to the USA in 1888 where he developed his artistic skills. He returned to Dublin in 1925, worked there until his death in 1943.
Among Jerome Connor's outstanding works are the Robert Emmet in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, the Smithsonian Ins, Washington USA, the Lusitania Monument, Cobh, and the Merriot Sq, Dublin. — Map (db m23075) |
| California (Calaveras County), Angels Camp — 734 — Angels Hotel |
| | C.C. Lake erected here a canvas hotel in 1851. It was replaced by a one-story wooden structure, and then by one of stone in 1855, with second story being added in 1857. Here, Samuel Clemens first heard the yarn, which was later to bring him fame as author of "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras".
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 734
Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with Princess Parlor No. 84, Native Daughters of the Golden West, July 31, 1960. — Map (db m17664) |
| California (Humboldt County), Eureka — Clarke Memorial Museum |
| | Dedicated to the memory of my parents
Joseph H. & Annie F. Clarke
and other pioneers of Northwestern California
by Cecile Clarke
Dedicated August 21, 1960 by the Native Sons of the Golden West — Map (db m1505) |
| California (Inyo County), Independence — 229 — Mary Austin’s Home |
| | 1868 – 1934
“But if ever you come beyond the borders as far as the town that lies in a hill dimple at the foot of Kearsarge, never leave it until you have knocked on the door of the brown house under the willow-tree at the end of the village street, and there you shall have such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another…”
—The Land of . . . — Map (db m2955) |
| California (Nevada County), Nevada City — 863 — Nevada Theater |
| | California’s oldest existing theater building. The Nevada opened September 9, 1865. Celebrities such as Mark Twain, Jack London and Emma Nevada have appeared on its stage. Closed in 1957. The theater was later purchased through public donations and reopened May 17, 1968, to again serve the cultural needs of the community. — Map (db m10828) |
| California (Sacramento County), Sacramento — Charles A. “Charlie” King — 1821 – 1857 — Actor – Comedian – Entrepreneur |
| | A native of Jamaica Plains, near Boston, Charley King came to Sacramento in the early 1850’s. He was a member of the theatrical company that opened the American Theater on the evening of September 9, 1851, it’s owner-proprietor was Dr. Volney Spaulding. The theater and its performing company continued to prosper until November 2, 1852, when Sacramento’s worst conflagration leveled the city and theater.
In 1853, Charley King formed a partnership with Messrs. Proctor, Venna and Mrs. . . . — Map (db m14037) |
| California (Sacramento County), Sacramento — Georgia Fisher — A Monument Love Story Restoration Project |
| | Georgia Fisher died on December 27, 1875. Martin Bergman, Georgia’s fiancée, was one of Sacramento’s earliest premiere potters and sculptures. Shortly after her death, Martin, together with his father and brother, created a beautiful monument on her grave site at our Sacramento Historic City Cemetery. Over the years vandalism, theft, and natural forces took their toll on the monument leaving only a shadow of its original beauty.
Georgia and Martin planned their wedding to be held on New . . . — Map (db m14034) |
| California (Sacramento County), Sacramento — Margaret Rhodes Crocker — 1822 – 1901 — Wife of Edwin Bryant Crocker |
| | The donation of her late husband’s art collection to the city in 1885 gave Sacramento the first and finest art gallery west of the Mississippi. Other philanthropic gestures during her lifetime, which included generous support of the Protestant Orphan Asylum, founding of the Marguerite Home for Aged and Homeless Women (1884), Women’s Aid Society and other numerous charities, earned her the title of “Lady Bountiful”. — Map (db m10769) |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Jack London |
| |
To mark the birthplace
of the noted author
Jack London
January 12, 1876
The original home on this
site, then known as 615
Third Street was destroyed
in the fire of April 18, 1906
Placed by the
California Historical Society
January 12, 1953 — Map (db m21203) |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Robert Lee Frost |
| | 1874–1963.
This great poet was born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874. First child of William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost. He lived in seven houses here all east of Van Ness Avenue and North of Market Street. Upon his father’s death in 1885, his mother took him and his sister back to Massachusetts. Frost was four times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; received forty-three honorary degrees and the Congressional Medal from President Kennedy; was appointed Consultant . . . — Map (db m639) |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Robert Louis Stevenson |
| | Lodged at 608 Bush Street, December 1879 - March 1880, and there wrote essays, poems autobiography and fiction.
Plaque placed by admirers of the author in cooperation with the California Historical Society.
July 26, 1972 — Map (db m18388) |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Vernon Alley — Legendary San Francisco Jazzman |
| | The legendary jazz bassist Vernon Alley was born May 26, 1915, in Winnemuca, Nevada. His father was a barber, a railroad man, and a laborer. His mother was a hotel worker. He came to San Francisco as a child and has always called The City his home.
As a young man, his parents took him to see the jazz great Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton. From that moment, jazz was to become his first love in a magical life that touched many people and broke many barriers.
Vernon Alley's life as a . . . — Map (db m20985) |
| California (Santa Clara County), Stanford University — 834 — Development of Motion Pictures |
| | In commemoration of the motion picture research conducted in 1878 and 1879 by Eadweard Muybridge, at the Palo Alto Stock Farm, now the site of Stanford University. This extensive photographic experiment portraying the attitudes of animals in motion was conceived by and executed under the direction and patronage of Leland Stanford. Consecutive instantaneous exposures were provided for by a battery of 24 cameras fitted with electro-shutters. — Map (db m2716) |
| California (Solano County), Benicia — Jack London |
| | To remember
JACK LONDON
The author
whi immortalized
this locality in
”John Barleycorn”
and
”Tales of the Fish Patrol” — Map (db m16329) |
| California (Solano County), Vacaville — William Gordon Huff — In Expression of Gratitude |
| | In recognition for his continuous dedication to the preservation of western history through his world – renowned artistic endeavors: for expressing his love of the Order through the sculptured likeness of the men who have labored to preserve and sustain it: and for never failing to spread, by example, kindness, pride, humor and good fellowship throughout the organization. He himself stands as a character portrait of the great and beloved men he has worked so tirelessly to memorialize. — Map (db m14168) |
| California (Tuolumne County), Columbia — 138 — Mark Twain Cabin — Mark Twain Bret Harte Trail |
| | Stopping place of packers carrying supplies to miners. Often 200 jackasses on hill over night furnishing concert suggesting name “Jackass Hill”. Very coarse gold found here. $10,000 taken from 100 square feed of ground. Quartz found containing 3/4 of total weight in gold. Mark Twain, Steve, Jim and Bill Gilis and Dick Stoker, the “Dick Baker” in “Roughing it”, were cronies. Mark wrote here “Jumping Frog of Calaveras” from notes made at Angels Camp Tavern. — Map (db m6861) |
| California (Yolo County), Woodland — 851 — The Woodland Opera House |
| | The first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley was built on this site in 1885. The present structure, built in 1895-96, continues to represent an important center for theatrical arts of that period. Erected by David N. Hershey and incorporating the classic American playhouse interior, it served vast agricultural regions of the Sacramento Valley. Motion picture competition hastened its closing in 1913. — Map (db m11726) |
| Connecticut (Fairfield County), Danbury — Danbury |
| | Marker Front:
Eight families came from Norwalk in 1685 to settle this area which the Indians called Pahquioque. They built their first homes a half mile south of here and made this green their common. The General Court in October 1687 decreed the name “Danbury” although the settlers had chosen “Swampfield.” Beans and other crops helped make Danbury an inland trading center by 1750 with a population of two thousand.
At the start of the American Revolution this . . . — Map (db m22836) |
| Delaware (New Castle County), Claymont — NC-91 — The Darley House |
| | The home of world-renowned illustrator Felix O.C. Darley (1822-1888). Built in the late 18th century and enlarged several times during the first half of the 19th century, the house was purchased by Darley in 1863 and renamed "The Wren's Nest." During his career, Darley illustrated books for Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens and James Fenimore Cooper. Two of his most notable works were Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. . . . — Map (db m14137) |
| Delaware (New Castle County), Newark — Enjoy the Pencader Area Today |
| | If you are just "passing through" or are a new resident or even a life-long Delawarean, we hope to spark your interest in the varied activities available in the Pencader Hundred Area. Whether your are experiencing these for the first time or rediscovering your heritage, we hope you enjoy what Pencader has to offer. Left Column Parks The Pencader Hundred Area has many parks for the public to enjoy. Lum's Pond is a state park located on Howell Road just east of Rout 896. Picnic . . . — Map (db m10871) |
| Delaware (New Castle County), Newport — NC-96 — Ashley Mansion |
| | Ashton Richardson built Ashley Mansion in 1804 on land he inherited from his father. A prominent Quaker, Ashton Richardson owned several milling operations and was considered one of the most eligible bachelors in the area. after marrying in 1807, Richardson and his wife Mary occupied the house until their deaths in the early 1850's. Ashley Mansion remained in the Richardson family until 1899, when the property was sold. In 1916 the house was purchased by Jefferson D. Chalfant, the acclaimed . . . — Map (db m13556) |
| Delaware (New Castle County), Wilmington — NC-113 — Frank E. Schoonover Studios |
| | The Frank E. Schoonover Studios were constructed in 1905 by Wilmington philanthropist Samuel Bancroft, Jr. Plans were provided by architect E.L. Rice, incorporating a Queen Anne design with four contiguous units. The original occupants were Frank E. Schoonover, N.C. Wyeth, Henry Peck, Harvey Dunn, and Clifford Ashley. All were former students of Howard Pyle, renowned illustrator and teacher. Over the years several other artists occupied the studios, but Schoonover remained, eventually acquiring . . . — Map (db m13559) |
| Delaware (New Castle County), Wilmington — N.C.- 84 — Gravesite of Bishop Peter Spencer (1779-1843) — And His Devoted Wife, Annes |
| | Born a slave, Bishop Spencer was the father of Delaware’s independent Black church movement. In 1813, he founded the Union Church of Africans, presently known as the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. The mother AUMP church stood on this site from 1813 to 1970. The Union American Methodist Episcopal Church (UAME), formally organized in 1865, traces its origins to Spencer. He was also the founder of “August Quarterly” in 1813, one of the oldest Black folk festivals in America. — Map (db m2607) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Adams-Morgan — 2 of 18 — Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park — Roads to Diversity — Adams Morgan Heritage Trail |
| | Long before Europeans arrived, Meridian Hill was a sacred place for Native Americans. As recently as 1992, a delegation of Native Americans walked across the continent to this park to mourn the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival. They were received by environmentalist Josephine Butler, a champion of park preservation.
Europeans named the hill for Commodore David Porter’s grand Meridian Hill house (1825) which straddled the route of the prime meridian (16th Street). Americans used this . . . — Map (db m16910) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Adams-Morgan — 6 of 18 — The Latino Community — Roads to Diversity — Adams Morgan Heritage Trail |
| |
This is the heart of Washington’s Latino community. Once centered here and in nearby Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights, the community now extends throughout the region.
As early as the 1910s, the Mexican, Ecuadoran, Cuban, and Spanish embassies clustered nearby on 16th Street. Spanish-speaking diplomats and staff called this area home and often remained after their terms ended. In the 1950s, political turmoil and economic hardship brought Puerto Ricans and Cubans, followed later by . . . — Map (db m17167) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Columbia Heights — 17 of 19 — Social Justice — Cultural Convergence — Columbia Heights Heritage Trail |
| | Straight ahead is All Souls Church, Unitarian, long known for its social activism, starting with abolitionism in the 1820s and ranging through nuclear disarmament and interracial cooperation. During the segregation era, All Souls was one of the few places in DC open to integrated meetings. During the 1980s and '90s it (and other neighborhood churches) even hosted concerts by DC's influential punk bands Bad Brains, Fugazi, Minor Threat, and others.
In the 1960s, the church launched the . . . — Map (db m24152) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Downtown — Julia Ward Howe |
| | In honor of Julia Ward Howe who wrote the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" here at the Old Willard Hotel November 21, 1861 "In the beauty of the lillies Christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me." Presented by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic January 24, 1938 Committee Frances Martin Kuhns - Emily Jerman Tompkins Annie Maria Michener - Edina Pearl Trigg Margret Hopkins Worrell Donors Orpha M. Whitaker | . . . — Map (db m6709) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Downtown — The New Willard |
| | Erected 1901 Site of
Joshua Tennison's Hotel 1818. John Strother 1821. Basil Williamson 1824. Frederick Barnard 1828. Proprietor of Mansion Hotel, Azariah Fuller American House 1833. City Hotel 1843. Willard's Hotel 1847-1901.
Distinguished Guests
Presidents Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant, Harding and Coolidge. Vice Presidents Henricks, Marshall and Dawes.
Also:
The Marquis de Lafayette, Jenny Lind, Charles Dickens, Lord and Lady Napier, Lloyd George, Edward . . . — Map (db m6618) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Downtown — Western Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue — [Freedom Plaza] |
| | Western Plaza consists of a large raised terrace in which part of L'Enfant's original 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. is rendered in black and white stone. At one end of the raised terrace is a pool. At the other is a shaded sitting area around a statue of General Pulaski.
Inscribed on the upper terrace are historic quotations about Washington. Low walls separate the plaza from surrounding traffic. Eleven large urns rest on top of these walls and contain seasonal planting. The upper map . . . — Map (db m17966) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Downtown — W.6 — Willard Inter-Continental Hotel — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail |
| | "This hotel, in fact, may be much more justly called the center of Washington and the Union than either the Capitol, the White House or the State Department. . ." Nathaniel Hawthorne, Civil War reporter for the Atlantic Monthly At 6:30 a.m. in late February 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln and his security team headed by Alan Pinkerton slipped into what was then called Willard's Hotel, an earlier version of the hotel now at this site. Assassination threats dictated this quiet . . . — Map (db m10905) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Georgetown — The Star-Spangled Banner |
| | The Flag. The immortal words "star-spangled Banner" refer to the magnificent flag which Francis Scott Key saw "by the dawn's early light" after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814. It is the largest flag ever flown in battle in U.S. history.
During preparations to defend Baltimore's vital seaport and center of commerce during the War of 1812, the commander of Fort McHenry, Major George Armistead, wanted a flag so big "that the British will have no difficulty . . . — Map (db m121) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Mount Pleasant — 1 of 17 — Fashionable 16th Street — Village in the City — Mount Pleasant Heritage Trail |
| | Today's 16th Street from the White House to Silver Spring, Maryland is one of the city's key gateways. But through the 1890s it jogged left where Mt. Pleasant Street runs today and then dead-ended at the edge of today's Rock Creek Park.
After decades on the city's wish list, in 1903, 16th Street was straightened and extended to Spring Road, several blocks north of here. This improvement, coupled with the arrival of the electric streetcar, made airy Mount Pleasant an attractive location for . . . — Map (db m17138) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Penn Quarter — 601 Pennsylvania Avenue |
| | On this site in 1814, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was first sung in public. The most famous of several hotels on this block was Brown's Marble Hotel (1851-1935), an innovative Greek Revival landmark, where John Tyler and Abraham Lincoln were guests. In the 1830s, Beverly Snow, a free Black, operated the Epicurean Restaurant on the corner of 6the Street. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad building was completed at the same location in 1893. Its facade was incorporated int the present office building, erected by the B. F. Saul Company in 1985. — Map (db m14915) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Penn Quarter — .2 — Ceremony at the Crossroads — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail |
| | “Imagine a great avenue [with] solid ranks of soldiers, just marching steady all day long, for two days. ...” Walt Whitman. It took two days for the grand parade of 200,000 victorious Union soldiers described by the great American poet and Civil War nurse Walt Whitman to march down Pennsylvania Avenue past this spot, headed for review by President Andrew Johnson at the White House. Whitman might have been standing right here on May 23 or 24, 1865. This had been the ceremonial and . . . — Map (db m14875) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Penn Quarter — The Daguerre Monument |
| | [Inscription on Monument's front, 1890]:
DAGUERRE
[Inscription on 1890 monument's south side]:
To commemorate the half century in photography 1839 - 1889. Erected by the photographers association of America Aug. 1890.
[Inscription on 1890 monument's north side]:
Photography, the electric telegraph, and the steam engine are the three great discoveries of the age. No five centuries in human progress can show such strides as these.
[Rededication . . . — Map (db m17532) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Shaw — 5 of 14 — Howard University Sets the Standard — City Within a City — Greater U Street Heritage Trail |
| | To the north and east of the U Street corridor rises the tower of Founders Library at Howard University - an institution created in 1867 that has trained and inspired generations of African American leaders and has been a lodestar for its own community.
The highest value was placed on educational achievement in this historic neighborhood. Divisions 10 through 13 of the DC Public Schools, the “colored schools” as they were known in pre-1954 segregated segregated Washington, . . . — Map (db m17224) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Shaw — 13 of 14 — Meridian Hill Park — City Within a City — Greater U Street Heritage Trail |
| | Just ahead of you at the corner of 15th Street and Florida Avenue is the entrance to Meridian Hill Park, a dramatic urban oasis established in 1912 and completed in 1936. Its stunning, 12-acre landscape features the longest cascading waterfall of its kind in North America, a grand promenade and some of the city’s most interesting sculpture. Nationally known artists performed here from the 1930s into the 1970s, making it America’s first park for the performing arts. Pearl Bailey and Pearl Mesta . . . — Map (db m24149) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Shaw — 3 of 14 — We had everything we needed right here — City Within a City — Greater U Street Heritage Trail |
| | Black businesses sprung up everywhere on U Street in the early 1900s. As racial segregation increased, African Americans in Washington began a traditon of protest. They also responded by creating institutions of there own. In the 25 years from 1895 to 1920, the number of Black-owned businesses in this area skyrocketed from about to more than 300. They clustered around U Street.
John Whitelaw Lewis led the way in a true rags to riches story. Arriving in Washington with few resources in . . . — Map (db m12642) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Shaw — 1 of 14 — You Had to Wear a Tie — City within a City — Greater U Street Heritage Trail |
| | You are standing on Washington’s historic Black Broadway–the heart of African American life in Washington, D.C. from about 1900 to the 1950s. Duke Ellington, its most famous native son, grew up, was inspired, trained, and played his first music here. He is but one example of the leaders in law, medicine, the military, science and the arts who were shaped by a community that valued education and supported achievement against great odds in a segregated society. Nearby Howard University was . . . — Map (db m17186) |
| District of Columbia (Washington), The National Mall — Arts and Industries Building |
| | The Arts and Industries Building, the second oldest Smithsonian building, was the first building designed for the National Museum, as the Smithsonian's first museum was known. It was constructed between 1879 and 1881 to meet the need for more exhibition space for the rapidly increasing collections, which included railroad boxcar loads of items from the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The building's first use was for President James Garfield's inaugural ball on March 4, 1881. The . . . — Map (db m18563) |
| Florida (Hillsborough County), Tampa — 78000945 — Tampa Theatre |
| | This property has been
placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States
Department Of The Interior — Map (db m15882) |
| Florida (Pinellas County), Clearwater — Endangered |
| | Gift of
The Class of 1992
&
Journalism Students
The artist created "Endangered" from "found objects" of recycled metal, mostly chrome bumpers.
Students are the hope of the future, the environment and its preservation.
Paul Eppling, artist. — Map (db m4983) |
| Florida (St. Johns County), St. Augustine — F-240 — Ponce De Leon Hotel |
| | The magnificent structure was erected between 1885 and 1887 by Henry M. Flagler, the hotel and railroad magnate whose activities contributed greatly to the development of Florida's eastern coastal area. Designed by the New York architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, the building reflects the Spanish Renaissance style throughout. The hotel was the first major edifice in the United States to be constructed of poured concrete, a mixture of cement, sand, and coquina shell. The interior is . . . — Map (db m5994) |
| Georgia (Appling County), Baxley — 001-1 — Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Pafford Miller |
| | Baxley`s Caroline Pafford Miller (1903-1992) was the first Georgia novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The author was born in Waycross and spent her formative years in the South Georgia wiregrass country. After moving to Baxley she lived in houses on Anthony then Fair Streets. She observed the people of the area and collected many stories about the pioneer life of hardy yeoman farmers south of the Altamaha River.
These stories breathed life into "Carrie" Miller`s . . . — Map (db m10079) |
| Georgia (Baldwin County), Milledgeville — 5-3 — Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia Farm |
| | Andalusia was the home of writer Flannery O’Connor from 1951 until her death in 1964. Born in Savannah in 1925, O’Connor and her family moved to Milledgeville in 1940. O’Connor left Georgia for a time, but returned to Milledgeville in 1951 after being diagnosed with lupus. She then moved with her mother, Regina Cline O’Connor, to the family farm, Andalusia. Here she found inspiration for many of the settings and characters in her stories. While living here, O’Connor completed her two novels, . . . — Map (db m8982) |
| Georgia (Bartow County), Pine Log — 008-13 — Corra Harris |
| | Author of "A Circuit Rider´s Wife" and many other books and articles, lived from 1913 until her death in 1935. The most productive years of her career were spent in a picturesque log cabin, which, according to legend, was once the home of a Cherokee Indian chief. Born at Elberton in 1869, she married the Rev. Lundy Howard Harris at the age of 17. From her experiences as the wife of an itinerant Methodist minister she later drew her literary material. — Map (db m13230) |
| Georgia (Bibb County), Macon — 11-3 — Ballard-Hudson Senior High School |
| | Ballard-Hudson Senior High School was built in 1949 as the only high school in Macon for African Americans in grades nine through twelve. The school
represents the merger of two schools: Ballard High School, a private school with roots in Lewis High School, established in 1868 by the American Missionary
Association, and Hudson High School, a public industrial high school. In 1970,the same year a federal court required the integration of all public schools in Georgia, Ballard-Hudson Senior . . . — Map (db m21241) |
| Georgia (Bibb County), Macon — 011-6 — Birthplace of Sidney Lanier |
| | Sidney Lanier, poet, linguist, musician, mathematician & lawyer, was born in this cottage, Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe Univ. then at Milledgeville, served as a private in the Confederate Army and was captured while commanding a blockade runner. Lanier was married in 1867 to Mary Day of Macon where he practiced law with his father. Moving to Maryland he lectured at Johns Hopkins while carrying on his writing. He died at Lynn, N.C. Sept 7, 1881. Among his best known works are "The Marshes of Glynn" & "Song of the Chattahoochee". — Map (db m664) |
| Georgia (Bulloch County), Arcola — 016-2A — John Abbot (1751-1839) — Ornithologist, Entomologist, Artist — >>--- 1/3 Mi. ---> |
| | In the old McElveen Cemetery, one-third of a mile northeast of this marker, is the grave of John Abbot, pioneer naturalist of Georgia. Abbot was born in London June 1, 1751, and in early youth became devoted to the study and delineation of insects. At sixteen he already had become proficient with water colors and had collected, painted and exhibited his work in London. Longing for new collecting grounds, he came to Virginia in 1773 and, after three years there, he settled in Georgia. During . . . — Map (db m24018) |
| Georgia (Carroll County), Bremen — 022-6 — Sacred Harp Singing |
| | When Georgians B.F. White and E.J. King compiled the songbook, The Sacred Harp, in 1844, they were continuing a singing tradition, which would ultimately become identified with the book. Thousands of southerners would be exposed to music through the singing schools taught from The Sacred Harp.
Sacred Harp singing or Fasola singing uses four shapes to identify the notes to be sung and is performed without the assistance of musical instruments. Traditionally the singers . . . — Map (db m10036) |
| Georgia (Carroll County), Villa Rica — 022-8 — Thomas A. Dorsey — Father of Gospel |
| | Thomas Andrew Dorsey, composer of over 400 blues and gospel songs, lived here following his birth in Villa Rica on July 1, 1899. At Mt. Prospect Baptist Church he was exposed to shape-note singing and at home learned to play a used pump organ, experiences he said "sprang" his career. The young blues pianist moved to Chicago in 1919 in the Great Migration.
Dorsey wrote the world's most popular gospel-blues song after his wife and newborn son died unexpectedly on August 26 and 27, 1932. . . . — Map (db m10043) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — "Jingle Bells" |
| | James L. Pierpont (1822-1893), composer of "Jingle Bells", served as music director of this church in the 1850s when it was a Unitarian Church located on Oglethorpe Square. Son of the noted Boston reformer, Rev. John Pierpont, he was the brother of Rev. John Pierpont, Jr. minister of this church, and uncle of financier John Pierpont Morgan. He married Eliza Jane Purse, daughter of Savannah mayor Thomas Purse, and served with a Confederate cavalry regiment. He is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery. . . . — Map (db m5817) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — Conrad Aiken |
| | Conrad Aiken, Poet and Man of Letters, was born in Savannah on August 5, 1889, and lived at No. 228 (opposite) until 1901. After the tragic deaths of his parents, he was moved to New England. Most of his writing career was divided between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Rye, England. In 1962 he returned to Savannah to live and write in the adjoining house, No. 230 until his death August 17, 1973. Of his home here he wrote: "Born in that most magical of cities, Savannah, I was allowed to run wild in . . . — Map (db m5310) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 025-31 — Dr. Wm. A. Caruthers (1802-46) — Early American Novelist |
| | One block west of this marker -- at the northwest corner of Hull and Whitaker Streets -- stood,
formerly, the residence of William Alexander Caruthers, Virginia's earliest significant novelist. He resided in Savannah for several years before his death in 1846. Dr. Caruthers, who married Louisa
Catherine Gibson of Whitemarsh Island, Chatham County, moved in 1837 to this city where he successfully practiced medicine. He took a prominent part in affairs in Savannah as a realtor; was one of the . . . — Map (db m5920) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 025-21 — Edward Green Malbone (1777-1807) |
| | Beneath this modest slab rest the remains of America's foremost painter of miniatures. Malbone, a native of Rhode Island, began his career in Providence at the age of seventeen. He pursued his calling in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston and in London, England. Exacting and unceasing work undermined his constitution. Having sought in vain to recover his health in the island of Jamaica, he came to Savannah in fore-knowledge of death and died here in the home of his cousin, Robert . . . — Map (db m5369) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 025-101 — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home |
| | Mary Flannery O`Connor, novelist and short story writer,was born in Savannah March 25, 1925. She grew up in this house and in later years she referred to it simply as " the house I was raised in." She lived here until 1938, attending church at the Cathedral across Lafayette Square and school at St. Vincent`s Grammer School, then facing the square between Harris and Macon Streets. Flannery O`Connor thrice won the O. Henry award for best shirt story of the year. Her
collected stories won the . . . — Map (db m9490) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 025-24 — Hugh McCall (1767-1823) — Early Georgian Historian |
| | Hugh McCall who is buried here was the author of the first history of Georgia.
Forced by ill health into retirement, McCall, who was a Brevet Major, U.S. Infantry, became interested in the history of his adopted State. In spite of severe handicaps, he wrote a much needed history of Georgia. The first volume, which was published at Savannah, in 1811. The second volume, which appeared five years later, carried his “History of Georgia” through
the Revolutionary period. Time has . . . — Map (db m5372) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 25-15 — Joel Chandler Harris in Savannah 1870-1876 |
| | Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908), New South journalist and author of Uncle Remus tales,
Free Joe, and many other works, was associate editor of the Savannah Morning News
from 1870 until 1876, under William Tappan Thompson, an established writer of southern
humor. He published comic stories in his Affairs of Georgia column, which was often
reprinted around the state. Rooming at the Florida House, which merged in 1880 with the
Marshall House on East . . . — Map (db m5570) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — John Herndon Mercer 1909 - 1976 — Savannah's Native Son |
| | { Caricature }
Johnny Mercer
Lyricist Songwriter
Co-founder of Capitol Records Winner of 4 Academy Awards
Front Rim reads;
Ac-cent-tchu-ates The Positive - Autumn Leaves - Blues In The Night - Charade - Jeepers Creepers -
Laura - Moon River - My Shining Hour - On The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Back Rim reads;
Come Rain Or Come Shine - The Days Of Wine and Roses - Hooray For Hollywood - In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening - One For My Baby - . . . — Map (db m13683) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 25-26 — Johnny Mercer — 1909 - 1976 |
| | World-renowned songwriter John Herndon Mercer was born in Savannah and spent much of his youth in this house at 226 East Gwinnett Street. His lyrics reflected the sounds of Southern conversation, influenced by the African-American music and the natural world he experienced. During his career Mercer wrote more than one thousand songs, and nearly four hundred were used in motion pictures. Of these, eighteen were nominated for Academy Awards® ; four of which ("On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa . . . — Map (db m8702) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 025-36 — Lowell Mason 1792- 1872 |
| | Lowell Mason, noted composer of sacred music, was organist of the Independent Presbyterian Church (1820- 1827), and Superintendent of its Sunday School (1815- 1827). A native of New England, Mason moved to Savannah at the age of twenty. He resided in this city for approximately fifteen years until his return to Massachusetts in 1827. He was active in the civic an religious life of his adopted city. He served as Secretary of the Savannah Missionary Society; was an active organizer of a school . . . — Map (db m5635) |
| Georgia (Chatham County), Savannah — 025-38B — Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences |
| | Open to the Public ~~~ Created under the Will of Miss Mary Telfair (c. 1789-1875), the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences opened as the first public art museum in the Southeast with a preliminary private showing February 12, 1885. After extensive remodeling and additions, with Detlef Lienau of New York as architect, the building was formally dedicated May 3, 1886. Among the prominent persons who attended the dedication were: Jefferson Davis and his daughter, Winnie Davis; Charles C. Jones, . . . — Map (db m5523) |
| Georgia (Clarke County), Athens — Hodgson-Dodd Park |
| | In their Springdale houses they shared the joys of music and the visual arts with friends, family, students and faculty. HUGH HODGSON
1893 - 1969
570 SPRINGDALE was designed by architect Ed Wade and built in 1941 by Sam Wright for musician HUGH HODGSON and his wife JESSIE. Here colleagues and visiting
celebrities rehearsed the weekly lecture-concert Music Appreciation evenings beloved by town and gown alike. From 1928 to 1960, HODGSON -- pianist,
conductor, composer, educator . . . — Map (db m14191) |
| Georgia (Clarke County), Athens — 029-18 — The Red and Black |
| | Student published the first issue of the University of Georgia's campus newspaper, The Red and Black, on Nov. 24, 1893, from offices in the Academic Building [now the Hunter-Holmes Academic Building]. The tabloid boosted school spirit, promoted athletic programs and reported on cultural activities for the University's 212 students. The weekly paper was the official organ of the Athletic Council from 1895 to 1928, when it became a laboratory for the School of Journalism in the . . . — Map (db m11289) |
| Georgia (Columbia County), Harlem — GHM 036-9 — Oliver Norvell Hardy |
| | Harlem became the birthplace of the rotund member of one of Hollywood's greatest comedy teams when Oliver Hardy was born January 18, 1892. After his father died and was buried in the Harlem Cemetery the year of Oliver's birth, Mrs. Hardy took the family to Milledgeville where she became the manager of the Baldwin Hotel. Young Oliver was enthralled by the visiting troupes of performers who stayed there. Later, as manager of the town's first movie theater, Hardy performed regularly.
After . . . — Map (db m15374) |
| Georgia (Glynn County), Brunswick — 063-10 — Lanier's Oak — ← |
| | During his visits to Brunswick in the 1870`s Sidney Lanier, Georgia's greatest poet, frequently sat beneath this live oak tree and looked out over "a world of marsh that borders a world of sea." Here he received the inspiration which resulted in some of his finest poems.
Of these the best known is
"THE MARSHES OF GLYNN." — Map (db m12300) |
| Georgia (Glynn County), Brunswick — Lanier's Oak |
| | 'neath this gracious tree
stood Sidney Lanier and
under inspiration of the
oak and the marsh wrote
The Marshes Of Glynn
" I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God :
Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within
The range of the marshes, the liberal marshes of Glynn "
Lanier Born at Macon, Ga. 1842 Died 1881 — Map (db m12554) |
| Georgia (Glynn County), Brunswick — 063-2 — Sidney Lanier — Georgia's Greatest Poet — → |
| | Was a guest in this home on many occasions in the 1870`s. It was then the residence of his wife`s brother, Henry C. Day. On these visits Lanier became acquainted with "The Marshes of Glynn" which he immortalized. — Map (db m12390) |
| Georgia (Gordon County), Calhoun — 064-34 — Roland Hayes — June 3, 1887 - January 1, 1977 |
| | Roland Hayes, the first internationally renowned African - American classical singer was born in Gordon County and performed at this site, the former Calhoun High Auditorium. Hayes opened doors for African - American concert and opera performers and elevated Negro spirituals to the classical level, singing them in concert with operatic arias. He
sang in seven languages. Hayes studied at Nashville´s Fisk University and toured the United States, performing at Carnegie Hall and Boston Symphony . . . — Map (db m13916) |
| Georgia (Gwinnett County), Lawrenceville — US 29 F-5 — Birthplace of Bill Arp |
| | The beloved Charles Henry Smith, was born here June 15, 1826. He married Mary Hutchins of Lawrenceville in 1849; began his law practice and moved to Rome in 1851. Major, Confederate Army. His Nom de plume, “Bill Arp,” was first used in 1861. Appointed Judge Advocate, Macon, 1864. State Senator
1865-1866. Mayor of Rome, Ga. 1868-1869. Moved near Cartersville in 1877, and into town 1888. A brilliant writer, gentle philosopher, and entertaining
humorist for more than forty years, he died August 24, 1903 — Map (db m14085) |
| Georgia (Hancock County), Sparta — 070-11 — Rockby — <------<<<< |
| | About 1 mi. from here, Richard Malcolm Johnston, lawyer, educator, and author, operated Rockby, a school for boys revolutionary in its day. Disgusted with the harsh disciplinary methods of the time, Johnston instituted an honor system whereby students were expected to report their own misdemeanors. His system of discipline, “at once so liberal and so exacting,” worked remarkably well, and Rockby enjoyed wide patronage. Opened in Jan., 1862, the school prospered until after the Civil . . . — Map (db m24172) |
| Georgia (Harris County), Hamilton — B. F. White — --1800-1879-- |
| | Song writer, teacher, editor, lived in Hamilton, 1843-c.1868, was mayor, 1865. Near this spot in 1844 he published Sacred Harp, a “fa-sol-la” acappella singing school book now in its 14th edition.
White taught in a local academy, conducted singing schools in many places and organized singing conventions, some of which still exist. He died in Atlanta and is buried in Oakland Cemetery. — Map (db m22451) |
| Georgia (Lowndes County), Valdosta — Old Carnegie Library |
| | Inspired by a grant of $15,000 from Andrew Carnegie, citizens constructed this building as a Carnegie Library in 1913, for $40,000. This was the first public building designed by local Architect Lloyd B. Greer and was formally opened June 1914. The facility became inadequate, and the South Ga. Regional Library was built on Woodrow Wilson Dr. in 1988. Until 1976 the Carnegie Library was a branch library. In April 1977, the Lowndes Co. Historical Society occupied the building, using it as a museum and headquarters — Map (db m23441) |
| Georgia (McDuffie County), Thomson — 094-10 — Blind Willie McTell — Musician |
| | Willie Samuel McTear (1901-1959) was born between Big and Little Briar Creeks in the Happy Valley community. In 1911, he and his mother moved to Statesboro, where he began his life of traveling and performing. Although blind from infancy, Willie developed a lifelong independence based on his acute sense of hearing, remarkable memory and versatile musical genius.
Willie performed and recorded under many names but favored "Blind Willie" McTell. Best remembered for his blues, McTell, had a . . . — Map (db m15743) |
| Georgia (McIntosh County), Darien — 095-9 — Famous Butler Authors |
| | Pierce Butler and his daughter, Frances, who shared his interest in the South, returned to Butler Island in 1866, and worked to rehabilitate the plantations. Pierce Butler died in 1867, but Frances continued for several years to manage the Island acreage. She wrote a book, "Ten Years On A Georgia Plantation," an interesting and valuable account of life in this section during the Reconstruction. Owen Wister, famous author of "The Virginian," and other novels, was the son of Sarah Butler, sister . . . — Map (db m11051) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-11 — William Tappan Thompson |
| | William Tappan Thompson, famous Georgia journalist and author, was born in Ohio in 1812. Moving to Augusta in 1835, he became associated with Augustus Baldwin Longstreet in the publication of the State Rights Sentinel. In 1838 he founded a literary journal, the Mirror, which in 1842 was merged with a Macon periodical, the Family Companion, to become the Family Companion and Ladies’ Mirror. The first Major Jones letter appeared in one of the last issues of this journal.
In 1843 Thompson . . . — Map (db m16442) |
| Georgia (Murray County), Spring Place — John Howard Payne |
| | Author of "Home,Sweet Home," suspected as a spy of the Cherokee Indians was imprisoned here in 1835, but released.
Erected by Old Guard of Atlanta Oct. 6, 1922;
Jos. A. McCord; Commandant — Map (db m18592) |
| Georgia (Muscogee County), Columbus — Columbus’ First Theater |
| | (Side 1): A pioneer theatrical entrepreneur, Sol Smith, 1801-1869, built many theaters in the Deep South, including New Orleans and Mobile and the first permanent theater west of the Mississippi in St. Louis, a city that he and partner Noah Ludlow dominated. Smith came to Columbus in 1831 to a primitive log structure in the 800 block of Broadway, which builder Asa Bates had completed in one week. “Pizzaro” was his company’s first production there. Later, Smith toured . . . — Map (db m22838) |
| Georgia (Muscogee County), Midland — 106-12 — “Blind Tom” |
| | 200 feet east is the grave of Thomas Wiggins, (1843-1908). As “Blind Tom” he thrilled audiences here and in Europe with his remarkable musical performances. Born a slave, his native genius let him reproduce perfectly on the piano any sound he heard, including classical compositions and the sounds of birds. His owners, the Bethune family, discovered his rich gift, when they heard exquisite music in their home near Columbus, and found the little blind boy at the piano. He reached the . . . — Map (db m22770) |
| Georgia (Newton County), Oxford — 107-09 — Town of Oxford and Emory College |
| | Emory College was chartered December 19, 1836 when Georgia Methodists expanded their educational program. Named in honor of Methodist Bishop John
Emory (1789-1835) who helped organize several northern colleges and presided over the Georgia Conference in 1834, this Christian liberal arts college was the outgrowth of the Georgia Methodist Conference Manual Labor School located in 1834 near Covington.
Early in 1837, 1,452 acres of land two miles from the labor school, were purchased. . . . — Map (db m11217) |
| Georgia (Putnam County), Eatonton — 117-4 — Turnwold Plantation |
| | Here, from 1862 to 1866, Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus", lived and worked as a printer's apprentice on what was probably the only newspaper ever printed on a Southern plantation, "The Countryman," a weekly newspaper edited and published by Joseph Addison Turner, owner of "Turnwold." Mr. Turner, planter, lawyer, scholar and writer, encouraged his youthful apprentice in writing and the use of the large plantation library. In the slave quarters, the boy Harris heard African animal . . . — Map (db m407) |
| Georgia (Putnam County), Eatonton — Uncle Remus Museum |
| | This memorial to Joel Chandler Harris, born in Eatonton Dec. 9, 1848, was constructed from three slave cabins found in Putnam County. Uncle Remus Museum, Inc., a local non-profit organization of dedicated citizens established and has maintained its operation continuously from the opening on April 21, 1963.
Turner Park is a part of the home place of Joseph Sydney Turner, the “little boy” to whom the world famous stories of the “critters” were told by “Uncle . . . — Map (db m9062) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — James Ryder Randall — 1839 — 1908 |
| | "Better the fire upon thee roll,
Better the blade, the shot, the bowl,
Than Crucifixion of the soul,
Maryland! My Maryland!" — Map (db m10106) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Jessye Norman — International Opera Star and Humanitarian |
| | Riverwalk Amphitheater and Plaza named in honor
of Jessye Norman, internationally acclaimed opera star,
born in Augusta, Georgia, September 15, 1945. Miss Norman began singing at Mounty Calvary Baptist Church, 1260 Wrightsboro Road. She attended C.T. Walker Elementary School and A.R. Johnson Junior High School. After graduating from Lucy C. Laney High School, Miss Norman pursued vocal training, earning her Bachelor's Degree from Howard University and her Master's Degree from the . . . — Map (db m10032) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-8 — William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | In the "Masonic Hall" on this site, the British author lectured (Feb. 11-12, 1856), as guest of The Young Men`s Library Assn. He wrote home: "Nice quaint old town Augusta, rambling great street 2 miles long, doctors and shopkeepers the society of the place, the latter far more independent and gentlemanlike than our folks, much pleasanter to be with than the daring go ahead northern people. Slavery no where repulsive, the black faces invariably happy and plump, the white ones eager and hard. I . . . — Map (db m9987) |
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