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Daughters of the American Colonists Historical Markers
Markers erected by all chapters of Daughters of the American Colonists. The Society is dedicated to research the deeds of American colonists and to record, publish and commemorate them.
When British forces arrived at Mobile Bay to assault Fort Bowyer on Mobile Point, half of the British army under the command of Sir John Kean, who was recovering from wounds suffered during the defeat at New Orleans, was landed on Dauphin Island to . . . — — Map (db m122427) HM
Established in 1821 for defense of Mobile Bay and named in honor of General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 1777-1849 who played an important part in early Alabama History and while Commandant of Fort Stoddard captured Aaron Burr near McIntosh in February . . . — — Map (db m39393) HM
In the early 1800s, south Alabama was still inhabited by many groups of Native Americans: Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw among others. They traveled, hunted, traded, and made war on the many ancient trails here. European settlers improved these roads . . . — — Map (db m95359) HM
Oldest route from Atlantic to Southwest. In 1805 it became Federal Road, over which pioneers traveled from Milledgeville to St. Stephens. Oglethorpe, Lafayette, Burr and others used this trail. — — Map (db m165635) HM
2 ½ miles East - the beginning of Steel Industry in this area. Iron Ore, reduced by charcoal, hauled by oxcart, was made into plows, pots, cannon and munitions.
State Park- Camping, Nature Trails, Swimming and Fishing Early American . . . — — Map (db m36927) HM
Two miles north of this point was the intersection of two important postal routes of early Alabama, the Saint Stephens-Cahawba Road and the Tuskaloosa-Prairie Bluff Road. — — Map (db m38495) HM
This statue was erected in February 1991 to honor the enlisted men who served in the Southwest during the Apache Wars in the 1870s and 1880s. It was cast in bronze by Desert Crucible, Inc., of Tucson. One and one-half times life-size, it stands . . . — — Map (db m100695) HM WM
The flagstaff has been the one constant feature of all military establishments since the creation of the U.S. Army in 1784.No matter what era or architectural style, the flagstaff has remained at the center of the parade ground and at the center of . . . — — Map (db m100713) HM
Home-site of Dr. Isaac Newton Jones and Elizabeth Littlejohn Jones
Benefactors of James Black, maker of the Bowie knife. Parents of Daniel Webster Jones, Arkansas Governor 1897-1901. — — Map (db m244939) HM
The
Geographical
Center of Arkansas
is a few steps
north of this highway
Erected by
The Arkansas Society
Daughters of American Colonists
Arkansas Centennial
1936 — — Map (db m96637)
Operated by Hiram Cory, this was one of the first ferries to cross the Salinas River. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors regulated the toll, which was, in 1877:
Buggy and horse, 25 cents:
Buggy and horses, 37½ cents:
Four horses and . . . — — Map (db m224487) HM
Bridgeport Bridge, or “Wood’s Crossing”, is the longest single span covered bridge in existence. Used since 1862, built by David I. Wood. This plaque is dedicated to those pioneer Americans who came to California in search of a new life . . . — — Map (db m8539) HM
The Santa Barbara Mission Aqueduct,
built about 1806
by Indians under
supervision of the Padres.
This marker placed by the
Santa Barbara Chapter of the
National Society Daughters of
the American Colonists,
June 17th 1935. — — Map (db m236058) HM
California had an ancient system of Paths made by migrating herd as they searched for food and salt. Native Americans later used these trails to hunt, gather, and trade for survival. European colonists improved these roads as they settled here. The . . . — — Map (db m209016) HM
Adobe house built by Jose Higuera about 1831 on Rancho Los Tularcitos
Marked by
San Jose de Guadalupe Chapter
Daughters of the American Colonists
August 1958 — — Map (db m211577) HM
In memory of the courageous men
who founded the first settlement of
the Town of Greenwich
in the Connecticut Colony
July 18-1640
Everardus Bogardus •
John Bowers •
Robert Feaks •
Jeffre Ferris •
Angell Husted •
Robert Husted • . . . — — Map (db m18669) HM
In past times the ancient paths in Connecticut were formed by large animals as they moved with the seasons and migrated to salt deposits. The Native Americans followed these same paths as they hunted these animals, traded with other tribes and also . . . — — Map (db m112637) HM
In the ancient past Delaware was crossed by a network of Paths first forged by large animals and herds of buffalo migrating along the coast searching for food and salt deposits. The first settlers in this first state were The Nanticoke (Tidewater) . . . — — Map (db m245035) HM
This plaque recognizes the designation of St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Rock Creek Parish) and its churchyard known as Rock Creek Cemetery, in the National Register of Historic Places.
Founded originally as a preaching mission, with first . . . — — Map (db m70947) HM
To the original Patentees prior to 1700 whose land grants embrace the site of the Federal City. This Monument is erected by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists, April 25, 1936. — — Map (db m241797) HM
In 1559, Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sailed from Vera Cruz to Pensacola Bay in La Florida, to establish as the first permanent colony. The bay, also known as Ochuse and Panzacola, was reached by this sea pathway on August 15, 1559. A hurricane in . . . — — Map (db m183420) HM
Only one remaining of nine on Florida east coast commissioned in 1875 for the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Keepers provided shelter, food, clothing, and transportation to survivors of shipwrecks and storms at sea. In U.S. Coast Guard Service through . . . — — Map (db m112172) HM
Designed by George G. Meade, later Federal commander at Gettysburg. First lighted July 10, 1860. Dark during the War Between the States and its mechanism hidden by Southern sympathizers. Relighted June 28, 1866, it has not missed a night in over . . . — — Map (db m96951) HM
The Three Chimneys is the site of the oldest British sugar plantation, sugar mill and rum distillery in the United States. It was in operation from the late 1760's until the Revolutionary War.
The site was part of a 20,000-acre grant awarded to . . . — — Map (db m93336) HM
This site on the Great Ogeechee, 14 miles from the Atlantic, was selected in 1755 by Governor John Reynolds for the capital of Georgia. He named it for his kinsman, Lord High Chancellor of England, Phillip Yorke Hardwicke. Reynolds said: "Hardwicke . . . — — Map (db m11225) HM
[First plaque]
Built by Andrew McBride
Revolutionary soldier
in the 1820s
Dedicated by
Governor Robert Daniell Chapter
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
[Second plaque]
This property . . . — — Map (db m186575) HM
Dr. Lyman Hall was a Georgia signer of The Declaration Of Independence. He represented Saint John's Parish in the Continental Congress, and was a delegate from Georgia to the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia.
He was a founder . . . — — Map (db m8785) HM
Established by South Carolina Calvinists of English and Scottish extraction in 1752, the small settlement of Midway became 'the cradle of the Revolutionary spirit in Georgia'. Two of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, . . . — — Map (db m8941) HM
Georgia Colonial governor, trustee of the proposed University of Georgia, physician, Nathan Brownson became governor of Georgia in 1781, serving until Jan. 1782. Prior to this time Brownson served as a member of the Provencial Congress which met in . . . — — Map (db m8942) HM
This road on the right
was established in 1736 by
Gen. James Oglethorpe.
First postal route south of
Savannah Stage Coach Road
and line of march
of Revolutionary Soldiers.
Saint John's Parish Chapter
Daughters of the American . . . — — Map (db m9002) HM
( Left Text )
The plan of Sunbury consisted of three community-owned squares: King's Square, Meeting Square, and Church Square. You are standing in the area that was once
Church Square. This 350 by 350-foot area held the church to the . . . — — Map (db m9239) HM
Montgomery County was cut from Washington County in 1793 First Court held in William Neal’s House 1794 (now in Emanuel Co.)Later sites • Arthur Lott’s Plantation on Ohoopee 1797-1801; • Near Ebenezer Church (now Emanuel Co.) 1802-1812; • . . . — — Map (db m185264) HM
The colonial Great Indian Trading Path crossed land now a part of Augusta College and followed a part of the present McDowell Street. It was variously called Trading Road, Augusta Road, and the Creek Indian Path. Early platts show it on land owned . . . — — Map (db m10008) HM
The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the governors of NY, PA, & VA and the . . . — — Map (db m9906) HM
One branch of the Green Bay Trail traversed this region. Originally an Indian trail, after 1816 the route connected Fort Dearborn at Chicago with Fort Howard at Green Bay. Couriers faced hunger, cold and Indians to carry dispatches on a round trip . . . — — Map (db m66618) HM
This road followed an Indian trail that began in Chicago and went through DuPage, Kane, De Kalb, Boone, and Winnebago Counties to a Winnebago Village at Beloit, Wisconsin. In August, 1832, during the Black Hawk War, United States Army reinforcements . . . — — Map (db m47438) HM
Moses Stacy, soldier in the War of 1812, arrived here in 1835. This inn, built in 1846 and his second home, was a halfway stop between Chicago and the Fox River Valley and a probable stage stop for Rockford-Galena coaches. For many years the . . . — — Map (db m97573) HM
In memory of the early French missionaries and settlers who came to this area in the late 18th century and the Catholic faith that they rooted in the lives of the people on the banks of the Wabash River
1818-1819 The establishment and . . . — — Map (db m178126) HM
Fort de Chartres, seat of civil and military government in the Illinois country for half a century, was first completed in 1720. In 1753-56 it was rebuilt of stone at a cost of 200,000 livres and became one of the strongest forts in North America . . . — — Map (db m163687) HM
Several principal Indian and Pioneer Paths cut across Indiana and Delaware County
connecting trading and warrior routes of ancient times. First made by migrating large animals searching for salt, followed by Native Americans for food, trade and . . . — — Map (db m141410) HM
1841 Built as Headquarters of
the Whitewater Valley Canal Co.
1854 Savings Bank of Indiana
Home of:
Dr. S. W. Vance 1857-1936
Congressman and Mrs. Finly H. Gray 1936-1947
1947 - 1971 V. F. W. Post 571
1971 - . . . — — Map (db m44760) HM
Public lands from the New Purchase of 1818 were sold from Ambrose Whitlock's cabin located on this site.
Whitlock, who platted Crawfordsville in 1823, was receiver for the Federal Land Office until 1829.
Williamson Dunn was register for the . . . — — Map (db m13274) HM
Old Salisbury Court House
Wayne County’s first seat of justice
Built 1811 in Salisbury
Reconstructed in 1952 on this site
The only original log court house still
standing in Old Northwest Territory
Marker presented by
Weetomp Chapter . . . — — Map (db m139137) HM
Opened in 1803 by Chief Black Dog (Manka-Chonka) and his band of Osage Indians who had a village nearby where springs once flowed freely. — — Map (db m37839) HM
Dr. Charles H. Strong was a native of Girard, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Strong's dream came true when he decided to go deer hunting and possibly locate the geographical center of Crawford County, which had just been established in Southeast Kansas . . . — — Map (db m36928) HM
Antioch Cemetery
Est. 1871
This plaque dedicated May, 2001
to honor those whose services,
past and present have preserved
the beauty of this cemetery
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[Cemetery Chapel] . . . — — Map (db m88150) HM
This marker locates the original confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers. On August 15, 1865, near this point Jesse Chisholm met with the Plains Indian chiefs and headmen to agree on a treaty signing which occurred the following . . . — — Map (db m60589) HM
Organized by the Congregational Church occupied a building erected in 1865. It was Topeka's first college and preparatory school with classes starting January 3, 1866.
Renamed for Ichabod Washburn, the college moved to its present campus in . . . — — Map (db m119037) HM
The first settlement in Nelson County, KY. Three miles east of this spot stood Cox's Station, established in 1775 by Colonel Isaac Cox, a Colonial and Revolutionary War officer who came from Virginia to Kentucky and who was killed by the Indians in . . . — — Map (db m74267) HM
A western branch of this vital Colonial Road passed close to this area on the original Animal Trace formed by migrating animals seeking salt deposits. It is the northernmost portion of the Warriors Path in Kentucky. It connects the Shawnee in the . . . — — Map (db m90638) HM
This early road connected the presidio, "Nuestra Senora del Pilar de los Adaes", to the royal authority in Mexico City. An elected representative from Los Adaes traveled 1300 miles to Mexico City where he collected the soldiers' salaries and . . . — — Map (db m86807) HM
Was founded in 1721 by the Spaniards on the crest of this hill as the Eastern outpost of the Spanish Empire in the West and for fifty years was the capital of the Province of Texas until its abandonment in 1773.
Site donated and tablet erected . . . — — Map (db m106134) HM
Resting place of pre-Louisiana Purchase colonial settlers, veterans of the War of 1812 and the Civil War, and many men and women of great importance to local and national history. — — Map (db m103702) HM
The Poverty Point earthworks,
located 1.1 miles north, date to
1700-1100 B.C. Built by Native
Americans who hunted, fished,
and gathered wild foods. The 5
mounds, 6 ridges, and 43-acre
plaza present a design unique
in the world. A 6th mound . . . — — Map (db m109222) HM
Erected by the Colonists in 1680
Captured by the French and Indians
in 1690. Entire English
settlement destroyed
————
To the memory of these
brave defenders
this tablet placed by
The Daughters of the American Colonists
November . . . — — Map (db m50448) HM
A colonial maritime community established 1726 by William Fell, shipbuilder of Lancashire, England. In this area were built more than six hundred ships from the colonial era through the Civil War. Birthplace of the U.S. Frigate “Constellation” and . . . — — Map (db m2517) HM
Marble from this quarry, located about a mile to the south, was used to build the Washington Monument in Baltimore. Designed by architect Robert Mills and erected between 1815 and 1829. This was the first public monument erected to George . . . — — Map (db m137696) HM
Pioneer of the Maryland Baptist denomination. Only eternity, interpeted by God, can make known the moral, mental and spiritual work of the “Mother Church” of the Baptists of Maryland. Founded by Henry Sater 1690–1754. Resolute and . . . — — Map (db m2278) HM
For over 30 years, Thomas Johnson, Jr. committed himself to a life of public service for Maryland and the newly independent United States. Born in Calvert County in 1732, he excelled in the legal profession in Annapolis, later relocating to . . . — — Map (db m213574) HM
The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA, & VA and the . . . — — Map (db m797) HM
Top PlaqueThis marker
is given by Massachusetts Society
Daughters of the American Colonists
in recognition of
The role this historic building played
in the area's early growth
presented: September 13 1969 Bottom Plaque . . . — — Map (db m55680) HM
LaPlaisance Bay - the pleasant bay - was named in 1679 by Robert De LaSalle. After the War of 1812, it became part of the United States. In 1820 Maj. John Whipple was appointed keeper of the LaPlaisance Bay lighthouse. April 19, 1825 Col. John . . . — — Map (db m165271) HM
On July-1-1680
Louis Hennepin
left this place
to discover the
St Anthony Falls
———
Marked by the Daughters
of the American Colonists
– 1929 – — — Map (db m69738) HM
Did you know that this park began as a power plant easement? A local amateur historian, Lucy Wilder Morris, convinced the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company to grant an easement for a small park here in 1924. Lucy's interest in local . . . — — Map (db m155469) HM
From time immemorial, Indians, Traders and Explorers
among whom were Hennepin and Carver have used the
Mississippi river as a highway of travel, unloading
their canoes at the bend just below here. They
plodded up the portage trail across what is . . . — — Map (db m140044) HM
On this site stood Columbia College an institution of higher learning for men. First proposed in 1831, chartered by General Assembly in 1833, began its work in 1834. First session of University of Missouri held here in 1841. This college has been . . . — — Map (db m59463) HM
Sixteen years after the admission of Missouri to the Union. This territory now comprising six counties was purchased from the Sax, Fox and Ioway Indians. Negotiations for the United States were conducted by William Clark, Governor of Indian . . . — — Map (db m156350) HM
A military post was first established here in 1868 and named Sherman Barracks after the famous Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman. The post's name was soon changed to Omaha Barracks and, in 1878, to Fort Omaha. In 1879, General George . . . — — Map (db m33057) HM
President Franklin Pierce appointed Francis Burt of South Carolina the first Territorial Governor of Nebraska on May 30, 1854. Governor Burt arrived in Bellevue on October 6th and Chief Justice Fenner Ferguson administered the oath of office to . . . — — Map (db m228861) HM
During the mid-nineteenth century, steamboats played a major role in the settlement and development of the nation. In March 1865 the fully laden sternwheeler Bertrand left St. Louis under command of Captain James Yore. The cargo of general . . . — — Map (db m74161) HM
“Myriads of Stars shine over the graves of our ancestors.” Dat-So-La-Lee had seen some 96 winters, mostly in Carson Valley, when death came in 1925.
She was the last of those Washoe weavers whose ancient art had been practiced by countless . . . — — Map (db m20801) HM
Completed in 1871, Nevada’s splendid Victorian Capitol was built of sandstone from the quarry of the town’s founder, Abe Curry. The octagon annex was added in 1907, the north and south wings in 1915. Notable features are its Alaskan marble walls, . . . — — Map (db m20812) HM
This building was headquarters for the fabled Virginia & Truckee Railroad. From Carson City rails extended in three directions: To Virginia City in 1870, to Reno in 1872, and to Minden in 1906. The line to Virginia City was abandoned in 1939; The . . . — — Map (db m89559) HM
Fairview was part of the renewed interest in mining. Triggered by the strikes in Tonopah and Goldfield. Discoveries in 1905 of a rich silver float led to a boom that lasted through 1906 and 1907. A substantial town that boasted 27 saloons, hotels, . . . — — Map (db m67147) HM
text from: Nevada State Historic Preservation Office
Located 13 miles to the north is the camp of Wonder, a major mining center in the early years of the twentieth century. Thomas J. Stroud and several others made the first locations in . . . — — Map (db m69651) HM
It gives… “a forcible impression of the unhallowed character of the place” J. Ross Brown – 1860
This rugged reef of metamorphic rock was once one of the famous landmarks of the Nevada Territory. In June of 1850, John Orr and . . . — — Map (db m21561) HM
Samuel S. Buckland was a true pioneer. He settled here in 1859, began a ranching operation, established a station for the Overland Stage Company, and operated a tent hotel. He also constructed the first bridge across the Carson River downstream . . . — — Map (db m61066) HM
Constructed by Davidson M. Geiger and John H. Tilton in 1862, this old toll road was the most direct connection between the Comstock Lode and Truckee Meadows until replace by the present paved highway in 1936.
Concord stages, mud wagons . . . — — Map (db m45486) HM
The Virginia and Truckee RR was built to carry Comstock ore to the Carson River mills and to haul supplies back to the mines here. Service to Gold Hill began in December 1869 and to Virginia City in 1870. Once handling 30 to 45 trains a day, the . . . — — Map (db m45645) HM
Galena had a dual personality. It was developed in 1860 as a mining property by R. S. and Andrew Hatch. The Hatch brothers' quartz mill and smelter were among the earliest erected on this side of the Sierras. The gold float from the local mines . . . — — Map (db m93942) HM
Before the arrival, 1858, of Granville W. Huffaker driving 500 head of cattle into the Truckee Meadows, the principal settlers were Mormon. The Comstock Lode and its mining needs focused attention on the valley. Huffaker established his ranch in . . . — — Map (db m94304) HM
First building on the Reno campus, Morrill Hall was named in honor of Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont. Author of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 which led to the establishment of the university. Founded in Elko in 1874, the campus was moved . . . — — Map (db m113035) HM
These natural hot-springs are notable for their curative qualities. They were nationally acclaimed by President Ulysses S. Grant when he visited them in 1879.
Early emigrants so named them, because of their puffing and blowing. Located in 1860 . . . — — Map (db m94118) HM
Modern Verdi came into being with the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad through Nevada in 1867-’69. It became a major mill town and terminal for shipment of ties and construction timbers with a network of logging railways reaching into . . . — — Map (db m66021) HM
Lenni Lenape Indians (Original People) inhabited Verona in colonial times. Area settlers traded with and learned much from these Native Americans who granted land deeds in return for needed supplies. One such trail crossed Bloomfield Avenue nearby . . . — — Map (db m46082) HM
On this site
Christopher Reynolds
from 1743 to 1760 conducted the Christ Church School one of the earliest common schools in New Jersey — — Map (db m209048) HM
Named for Captain Henry W. Stanton, Fort Stanton was established May 4, 1855 as a
military fort to protect settlers from Apache attacks. Operated as a military fortification until 1896, it played a part in the Civil War, was the first Tuberculosis . . . — — Map (db m119454) HM
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