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William G. Pomeroy Foundation Historical Markers
Since its inception, the Foundation has grown to six historic signage programs, funding over 1,000 markers & plaques in New York, Ohio and beyond, all the way to Alaska. Does not include the William G. Pomeroy Foundation Legends & Lore Series.
On April 8, 1825 General Lafayette bid farewell to Gov. Israel Pickens & others at Mobile Point and departed on steamboat for New Orleans. — — Map (db m271629) HM
Courts met under "Jury Oak" early 1800s. Judge presided while sitting on tree limb. Public executions held at nearby "hanging tree". — — Map (db m221963) HM
On April 5, 1825, General Lafayette was welcomed at the State House, visited Halo Masonic Lodge, and dined at Mr. White's Hotel. — — Map (db m244889) HM
Selma Suffrage Association
established here March 1910.
Joined the Birmingham League
to form the Alabama Equal
Suffrage Association in 1912. — — Map (db m224540) HM
On Aug. 18, 1915, Alabama
Equal Suffrage Association
and Birmingham Barons
hosted suffrage day here in
support of women's suffrage — — Map (db m188885) HM
Eugenie Marx first president Mobile Equal Suffrage Assn. Educated and organized Mobile women to fight for the right to vote. Lived here 1910-1915. — — Map (db m226705) HM
On April 6, 1825, General Lafayette, descending the Alabama River, was honored in Claiborne where he was addressed by James Dellet. — — Map (db m239945) HM
Russell Cemetery AKA Pines Cemetery. Pvt. E. Thompson served in Revolutionary War 1776-1778. Fought at Germantown & White Plains. — — Map (db m285502) HM
As early as 1923 this area was known for its moonshine production, whiskey stills, and bootlegging operations during the Prohibition Era. — — Map (db m310418) HM
Completed 1940 connecting Lake Hood and Lake Spenard. Increased takeoff area for floatplanes & made possible Lake Hood seaplane base. — — Map (db m305878) HM
Invited by State Suffrage Assn, Laura G. Cannon spoke to crowd of working men here Sept. 26, 1912. AZ women won right to vote that November. — — Map (db m249433) HM
Arizona Equal Suffrage Assn hosted speech by national suffragist Anna Howard Shaw here in 1912 to promote woman suffrage in Arizona — — Map (db m193161) HM
1842-1907. VP AZ Territorial Suffrage Assn. 1895 and mother of US Sen. Carl Hayden who introduced suffrage resolution in congress 1913. — — Map (db m249435) HM
Suffragists Helen Hurlbut of California & Elizabeth Upham Yates of Main spoke here, the former Janssen's Hall, for the 1896 Suffrage Campaign. — — Map (db m243782) HM
Gottfried Maulhardt Farm has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m301355) HM
Salida Equal Suffrage League
formed by Carrie Chapman
Catt here at former Baptist
church in support of 1893
women's suffrage referendum. — — Map (db m250652) HM
Home of Margaret Brown, Titanic survivor & national advocate for Suffrage & Labor Rights. Proposed as candidate for U.S. Senate 1914. — — Map (db m177950) HM
On Sept. 4, 1824, General Lafayette visited Hartford during his triumphal return to the U.S. He was addressed here by Governor Wolcott. — — Map (db m230408) HM
Elm Street Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m230832) HM
Rocky Hill Center Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m230830) HM
Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m230787) HM
Hilltop Farm has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m230482) HM
On Sept. 4, 1824, General Lafayette was received at King's Tavern by the 1st Co., Governor's Horse Guard and escorted to East Hartford. — — Map (db m230442) HM
On August 21, 1824, General Lafayette, traveling on the Post Road, was welcomed with military and civil honors in Killingworth, now Clinton. — — Map (db m245608) HM
On August 21, 1824, General Lafayette reached Saybrook where he spent the night while traveling from New York City to Boston, MA. — — Map (db m227271) HM
Union Green Historic District has been placed on the National Register of
Historic Places in 1990
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m222813) HM
On August 21, 1824, General Lafayette was welcomed in Branford where he received civil and military honors on his way to New London.
(same message both sides) — — Map (db m298233) HM
On August 21, 1824, General Lafayette was welcomed in East Haven where a crowd had assembled and a militia company fired a gun salute. — — Map (db m276254) HM
Meeting House Hill Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m269660) HM
Jabez Smith
House
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
in 1981
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m227184) HM
Mystic Bank has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m227175) HM
Women munitions workers at former Bethlehem Steel Plant south of here jailed in Washington DC protesting for women's suffrage 1917-1919. — — Map (db m211090) HM
On October 6, 1824, General Lafayette entered Brandywine Village and he was escorted to Joseph Tatnall's house where he addressed family members. — — Map (db m210793) HM
Blanche Stubbs, 1872-1952. Equal Suffrage Study Club leader & advocate for African American voting and civil rights. Lived here. — — Map (db m184935) HM
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 1875-1935. Teacher, author, civil rights leader. Elected president Equal Suffrage Study Club 1914. Lived here. — — Map (db m186358) HM
Margaret W. Houston Sussex Co. suffrage leader elected V.P. of Delaware Equal Suffrage Assn. 1896. Helped est. town library 1899. — — Map (db m190454) HM
Founded 1896, the National Association of Colored Women fought for women's suffrage and human rights for all the disenfranchised. — — Map (db m235653) HM
Nannie Helen Burroughs advocated for equality and women's suffrage. Graduated with honors 1896 from the former M Street High School. — — Map (db m198384) HM
Green Gables has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m239349) HM
Bunnell Water Tower has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m209101) HM
WDAE was the first radio station to broadcast in Florida, doing so on May 15, 1922. The Tampa Daily Times was the original license holder, and the first radio studio was located in the Florida Citrus Exchange Building (later part of the Maas . . . — — Map (db m176260) HM
Violence was commonplace during the early years of Ybor City. Even duels were sometimes fought over honor, women, and at least once over an argument regarding which novel was appropriate to be read by the lector of a cigar factory. These duels, . . . — — Map (db m176191) HM
Soon after the founding of Ybor City, Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants established comprehensive health maintenance organizations. For small weekly dues they received medicines, hospitalization, and medical services.
On June 18, 1888, Don . . . — — Map (db m130180) HM
On May 16, 1896, during Cuba's 1895 Revolution against Spanish rule, the Captain General of Cuba, Valeriano Weyler, enacted an embargo against Cuban tobacco to the United States. He was enraged by the revolutionary activities of the Ybor City . . . — — Map (db m176267) HM
Parrot Jungle Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m266655) HM
Elizabeth Skinner, Florida Equal Suffrage Assn. organized county women here in former library hall. Lobbied for suffrage in Tallahassee 1919. — — Map (db m174829) HM
From March 27 to 29, 1825, General Lafayette stayed at
the Government House during his visit to Milledgeville, then Georgia's capital. — — Map (db m227241) HM
Saint Philip A.M.E. Church has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m301247) HM
On March 19, 1825, General Lafayette arrived in Savannah. Escorted here on March 21, he laid the cornerstone for the Nathanael Greene Monument. — — Map (db m301241) HM
On March 24, 1825, General Lafayette was welcomed at City Hall, attended a dinner on Greene St. & a ball in the evening at Planters' Hotel. — — Map (db m294568) HM
On March 25, 1825, General
Lafayette spent the night in
Warrenton on his way from
Augusta to Milledgeville.
He departed the next morning. — — Map (db m227214) HM
From the 1830s until the Civil War, many enslaved African descendants in the South escaped to Chicago on their way to freedom in Canada. Black and white abolitionists in the region were part of the networks of assistance known as the Underground . . . — — Map (db m261050) HM
Hybrid corn results from the cross of two inbred parents, each of which is developed by selfing (in-breeding) a corn line for 6-8 generations until it is mostly homozygous.
Corn plants are diploid with one set of chromosomes coming from the . . . — — Map (db m230907) HM
Built in 1839 and lived in by the Peck family until 1996, the Peck Homestead is significant locally, for the state of Illinois, and nationally as the home of Sheldon Peck, a radical abolitionist, keeper of a documented URR station and prolific . . . — — Map (db m255670) HM
On April 6, 1891, attorney Ellen Martin & 14 women voted in Lombard election asserting town charter gave right to all citizens of voting age. — — Map (db m173085) HM
Before and during the Civil War, thousands of freedom seekers fled northward to escape bondage. Aided by abolitionists and other sympathetic allies, these men, women, and children often traveled by night on foot or by wagon, boat, or train. By day . . . — — Map (db m286023) HM
The Atkinson Cemetery was established March 11, 1875, by James Atkinson, who granted the land as a community burial ground. The first recorded burial (1843) was of Sarah A. Short, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha "Patsy" (Maddux) Short. The . . . — — Map (db m236731) HM
In 1859, Jim Gray, a slave who escaped from Missouri, was apprehended in Illinois by slave hunters. Gray was taken to Ottawa for a hearing before Justice John Dean Caton of the Illinois Supreme Court's northern division.
On October 19, with a . . . — — Map (db m201759) HM
More than 250,000 horses were brought in from mid and western United States and shipped out of the East Alton stockyards during World War I. The horses of various breeds were shipped overseas to the British, French, and Belgian governments for the . . . — — Map (db m211576) HM
George Washington Carver Community Center fulfills the legacy of black women who believed in the motto "lifting as we climb."
The Colored Women's Aid Club was part of a rich network of women active in the social reform and social welfare . . . — — Map (db m267235) HM
On Apr. 30, 1825, Lafayette arrived at Gen. Edgar's home, dined at Col. Sweet's Tavern & attended a Ball at William Morrison's house. — — Map (db m223511) HM
Near this site in 1917, union miner Henry Stephens walked a long route home "with headlamp and dinner bucket" at dusk in support of the streetcar workers' strike and boycott. He vowed to trek long miles in solidarity: "I'd live in the fields on . . . — — Map (db m281233) HM
Wilhelmina Minnie Vautrin, (1886-1941) was born in Secor,
Illinois, to French immigrants. Her mother died when Minnie
was 6, and she was raised by her father and grandparents. She
excelled at school and worked her way through Illinois
State . . . — — Map (db m239248) HM
Side 1
Ornithologist Jane L. Hine was born
in Ohio and graduated from Oberlin
College before moving to DeKalb
County. She raised a large family,
starting ornithological work later in
life by studying the birds near her
Sedan farm. . . . — — Map (db m241163) HM
Ida Hagan grew up in the Pinkston Settlement, a free Black community west of Ferdinand. In 1904, local physician Dr. Alois Wollenmann appointed her deputy postmaster of the Ferdinand Post Office at age 16. at a time when few professional . . . — — Map (db m289750) HM
Born in Princeton, Dodgers first baseman Gil Hodges grew up in Petersburg. In 1941, he played American Legion baseball here. The field was renamed for him in 1970. Hodges debuted with MLB's Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943 but served with the U.S. Marine . . . — — Map (db m285517) HM
After devastating parts of Missouri and Illinois, the Tri-State Tornado crossed the Wabash River and entered southern Indiana on its 219-mile path. The tornado destroyed the town of Griffin and caused massive damage to Owensville before hitting . . . — — Map (db m285508) HM
