Roadside Historical Markers Location | Roadside Historical Markers

Subject	City	State
Wong Kim Ark of birthright citizenship case born here 1873.	San Francisco	California
Constitution Oak Tree	Torrington	Connecticut
The Favorite Shoe Store, Part of Jewish Experience	Townshend	Connecticut
President Garfield was shot here -site of National Gallery of Art	Washington	District of Columbia
Pres. Obama and Michelle Obama had their first date here.	Chicaco	Illinois
The Obamas had their wedding reception here.	Chicaco	Illinois
President Obama had an office in this Catholic church in Chicago.	Chicago	Illinois
Michelle Obama grew up here.	Chicago	Illinois
Kembrew McLeod wrote much of The Downtown Pop Underground here.	Iowa City	Iowa
First Broadside of Declaration of Independence Printed on this Site	Baltimore	Maryland
Boston Marathon Suspect #2 Caught Here	Watertown	Massachusetts
Slave pens were here, now Busch Stadium.	St. Louis	Missouri
Oskar Schindler Enamel Factory Historical Site	Krakow	ML
S.S. Morro Castle Disaster (& 1st One-Way St.?) (& Jim Morrison)	Asbury Park	New Jersey
All-black beach was here - 1900 thru early 1950s.	Atlantic City	New Jersey
Were there slave auctions at this Camden, NJ, park?	Camden	New Jersey
Martin Luther King, Jr., Stayed Here in 1950	Camden	New Jersey
A Blue Comet Observation Car Part of Diner	Clinton	New Jersey
WH Counsel Kellyanne Conway Has Home Here	Closter	New Jersey
Enslaved people were sold here in 1818 by Judge Van Wickle.	East Brunswick	New Jersey
Slavery marker removed by county in Haddon Heights, NJ	Haddon Heights	New Jersey
Haddon Heights Post Office Has Original Noguchi	Haddon Heights	New Jersey
Once-obscured African American Cemetery Is Here	Hainesport	New Jersey
First female AME preacher, Jarena Lee, is buried here.	Lawnside	New Jersey
Worst Airship Accident - Not Hindenburg - But Akron	Manchester Township	New Jersey
Pub that started Martin Luther King Jr.'s Civil Rights Crusade	Maple Shade	New Jersey
Kellyanne Conway attended this night club.	Margate City	New Jersey
Bissett Pottery was here, circa 1878.	Middlesex	New Jersey
Missile Tests at Island Beach State Park; Stealing Home Film Shot Here	Seaside Park	New Jersey
Mass Death Assemblage Fossil Dig	Sewell	New Jersey
South Jersey Church An Underground Railroad Stop	Swedesboro	New Jersey
Kellyanne Conway, Rod Rosenstein, ate here.	Ventnor	New Jersey
Kellyanne Conway's Jersey Shore Vacation Home	Ventnor City	New Jersey
Redbone, Santana, at Echelon Mall (Voorhees Town Center)	Voorhees	New Jersey
Birthplace of Hip Hop	Bronx	New York
Hart Island, a Potter's Field in Long Island Sound	Bronx County	New York
Arthur Miller lived here. (& it was a stop on the Underground Railroad)	Brooklyn	New York
Jackie Robinson, #42, Lived Here	Brooklyn	New York
Did Jackie Robinson sell suits at this Sears?	Brooklyn	New York
Mob Leveled a Gay Cruising Spot Here	Flushing	New York
Members of Angry Homophobic Mob Lived Here	Flushing	New York
Donald Trump's boyhood home.	Jamaica	New York
The Carlyle Hotel - Known for Discretion	New York	New York
Lionel Trains Showroom in New York City	New York	New York
Edwin Levick Aeronautical and Marine Photographers was here.	New York	New York
Woolworth Building's Centennial in April 2013	New York	New York
First Public Cell Phone Call Here - April 3, 1973	New York	New York
New York Library Site Was Once A Giant Storage Tank	New York	New York
Famous Bernice Abbott Photo Was Shot Here	New York	New York
Was there a bar at 50 Bowery where George Washington drank?	New York	New York
Oldest Dutch Colonial House in New York City	New York	New York
First Wall Street Journal was published here.	New York	New York
American Redoubt Marker in shadows of Geo. Washington Bridge	New York	New York
Electric Tattooing Machine Invented Here	New York	New York
Fanny White Ran a Brothel Here, Circa 1847	New York	New York
This Land Is Your Land lyrics written on this site.	New York	New York
P.T. Barnum exhibited 161-year-old slave here.	New York	New York
Worst Train Crash in American History, Nov. 1, 1918	New York	New York
Malcolm X lived here - East Elmhurst	Queens	New York
The Quarantine was here.	Staten Island	New York
Writer David Quammen grew up here; Underground Railroad ran on same street.	Cincinnati	Ohio
Supreme Court case outlawing mandatory Bible readings in public schools originated here.	Abington	Pennsylvania
Best store for military and war model accessories - Allentown, PA	Allentown	Pennsylvania
Best Place for Military Miniatures - Eastern Pennsylvania	Allentown	Pennsylvania
George Washington was patron at Broad Axe Tavern.	Ambler	Pennsylvania
Red Lion Inn, Bensalem, PA	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Ancient Native American Burial Ground in Bensalem, PA?	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Cornwells Fire Company (Original Firehouse)	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Cornwells Fire Company Number One	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Stone Tavern, Eddington section of Bensalem, PA 1800s	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Bensalem African Methodist Episcopal Church	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Toll House on Bristol Pike	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Buehl Field	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Rue-Maud Post Office - Curran's Irish Inn	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Cornwells State Bank	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
East Coast Cycle Center	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
ECI - Cornwells Heights Post Office	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Halfway House - Philadelphia to Trenton	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Pen Ryn Estate	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
The Murder of Dr. Chapman	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Indy Driver George Doc MacKenzie's Home?	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Revolutionary War-era British Officer Lived in this Bensalem House	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Underground tunnels at Neshaminy State Park? [Underground Railroad - Black Alice?, See Comments]	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
How did Street Road in Bucks County, PA, get its name?	Bensalem	Pennsylvania
Sztenderowicz Farm - Cornwells Heights	Bensalem (Cornwells Heights)	Pennsylvania
Normandy Farms - guard building/wall by Milton B. Bean	Blue Bell	Pennsylvania
Bill Clinton spoke here.	Blue Bell	Pennsylvania
Chicken Salad with Fried Oysters - Blue Bell Inn	Blue Bell (formerly Pigeontown)	Pennsylvania
Important Area in Croydon, PA, for Black History	Croydon	Pennsylvania
Oldest public library in United States.	Darby	Pennsylvania
Historic Church That Resisted Segregation - Devon, PA	Devon	Pennsylvania
African American activist Layle Lane's LaCitadelle was here.	Doylestown	Pennsylvania
Episcopal church was stop on Underground Railroad.	Elkins Park	Pennsylvania
The Lazaretto - Philadelphia's Ellis Island [& Slave Ships from Guinea Forced to Land Here]	Essington	Pennsylvania
Ebenezer A.M.E. Church - with graveyard, needs help.	Frazer	Pennsylvania
Haringstown, PA, is a village that is not on a map.	Gilbertsville	Pennsylvania
President Buchanan slept here.	Glenmoore	Pennsylvania
Chicken Salad with Fried Oysters - William Penn Inn	Gwynedd	Pennsylvania
Grist Mill and George Washington's Army	Harleysville	Pennsylvania
Washington's Headquarters in August 1777	Hartsville	Pennsylvania
George Washington bought grain for American troops here.	Hatboro	Pennsylvania
Julian Abele designed gates here.	Haverford	Pennsylvania
Villa Joseph Marie, a stop on the Underground Railroad?	Holland	Pennsylvania
Amelia Earhart broke record in Horsham, PA	Horsham	Pennsylvania
Newt Gingrich's Boyhood Home	Hummelstown	Pennsylvania
Valley Forge National Historic Park	King of Prussia	Pennsylvania
The Battle of Barren Hill	Lafayette Hill	Pennsylvania
Former Pres. Bill Clinton in Lansdale, PA	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
KKK crashed services of this Lansdale, PA, church, 1925.	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
Cross-burning on front lawn of Lansdale, PA, home, c. 1923.	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
Lansdale, PA, farmhouse built in early 18th Century	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
Lansdale, PA, home built in early 1800s	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
Lansdale Fire Companies Battled Here	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
Sen. Schweiker Worshiped Here	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
Tombstone mystery here - solved.	Lansdale	Pennsylvania
Angry Mobs Formed When 1st Black Family Moved In, Levittown, 1957	Levittown	Pennsylvania
Oldest Company in Philadelphia Area - Saint-Gobain	Malvern	Pennsylvania
Fugitive Slaves Buried Here - Ft. Washington, PA	Maple Glen	Pennsylvania
Underground Railroad Stop, Ft. Washington, PA	Maple Glen	Pennsylvania
Abandoned African American Cemetery in Marple Township, PA	Marple Township	Pennsylvania
FBI Office Where Anti-war Activists Broke In, On Night of Fight of the Century	Media	Pennsylvania
World's Best Hi-Fi Sounds in an Old Housemill?	New Tripoli	Pennsylvania
William Henry Hastie Jr. died here.	Norristown	Pennsylvania
Montgomery Square United Methodist Church (former site)	North Wales	Pennsylvania
Knapp Farm - 115-year-old woman, George Washington (?)	North Wales	Pennsylvania
Beaumont House, at Foulkeways in North Wales, PA, Preserved	North Wales	Pennsylvania
Montgomery Mall on site of town square in colonial times.	North Wales	Pennsylvania
Oldest Tree in Montgomery Township, PA	North Wales	Pennsylvania
Perkasie Park in Colonial Times, Victorian Era	Perkasie	Pennsylvania
The First Automat	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Where Television Was Developed	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Site of an Abraham Lincoln Speech in Philadelphia; Kahn/Stonorov building.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Where Mayor Frank Rizzo Grew Up	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Where Gwiazda Was Published	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Korvettes Department Store on the Boulevard	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
World's Best Pecan Pie (and Iggy Pop Played Here)	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
The Clash at the Walnut Street Theater; also, Lincoln Assassin's Bros.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Shane Candies and Robert Aitken Print Shop	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
P.T. Barnum Museum	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Corn Exchange National Bank Building	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Henry J. Magaziner Helped Preserve These Houses	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
First Chinese Church in Western Hemishpere	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Crispus Attucks Hotel	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Where Ben Franklin Flew His Electric Kite?	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Henry Van Beil liquor and cigar shop	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Frank N. Piasecki's Original Business Site	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Original Location - Academy of Natural Sciences	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
19th Century Publishing/ Mfg. on Dock Street, Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Former Site of Shepherd of the Lambs Orphanage	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Site of Francis Perot's Sons Brewery & Malt House	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Dock Street was once Dock Creek.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
James and Dolley Madison Lived Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Inquirer headquarters in 1860s	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Site of German Summer Theater	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Original Drafts and Copies of U.S. Constitution Stored Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Forbidden Drive Really Does Forbid (Fairmount Park, Philadelphia)	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Pennypack Creek Bridge - Oldest Stone Arch Bridge in U.S.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Great grain elevator explosion was here - West Philly	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Christmas lights from Silver Linings Playbook movie (& first rowhouses in America).	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Martin Luther King Jr. Spoke Here - SJU	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Crawley Wood Shop, circa 1950	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Dr. Charles A. Tindley's Church - grew up in slave family.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital was here. (Gertrude Bustill)	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Hidden Potters Field in Philly's Germantown Section	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
African-American Church's Burial Ground Under This Playground	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
St. Michael's: Know-Nothing Riots Were Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
First Commercial Computer Designed Here: Eckert-Mauchly Company	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Huge Civil War Hospital in West Philly - Satterlee Hospital	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
A Peek at 19th Century Working Class Living in Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Octavius V. Catto was assassinated here, 1871.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Headquarters of Pythian (African American) Baseball Club	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Jack Frost Sugar Refinery was here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Wilbur Chocolate Factory	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Wilbur Chocolate Factory was here, too.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Sugar House Sugar Refinery was here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Industrialist F. Otto Haas (Rohm & Haas) Lived Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Philly's Chinatown Started Here Circa 1870	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Florence Henderson Sought Spiritual Refuge in This Church When JFK Died	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Man Full of Trouble Tavern, built in 1759, Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
President Obama frequents this West Mount Airy home.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Mandela Mural In Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Oldest Law Firm in the United States	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Robert Morris Skaler, Philly historian / forensic-architect / postcard collector, grew up here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Historic (black history) YMCA; Wilt Chamberlain played here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Radio Station was at Wanamaker's. News of the Titanic.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Why the Constitution Center's Address Is 525	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Nickels Hall was here in early 20th Century.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Tallest Building in the Colonies, 1754-1810: Christ Church	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Pastor of Philly Church Was Nazi Saboteur	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Mary/Little Lamb author, who was also Thanksgiving founder, lived here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Little Ty who wrote graffiti in Vietnam era lived here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Pvt. Franklin Hill, Civil War soldier, lived here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Lincoln print produced here in 1865.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Library existed before Free Library of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Last Cobblestone Street in Philadelphia in Danger	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Declaration of Independence Written Here, Where Tom Thumb Hot Dogs Stood	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
First Major African-American Office Building in Philly	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Home of Free African James Oronoko Dexter was here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Philadelphia's last wooden street.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Wild Bill Guarnere Lived Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Hillary Clinton had meeting at this church. [Second oldest black church in U.S. Longest held real estate by African Americans.]	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Julian Abele designed Rocky Steps .	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Octavius V. Catto lived in a home on this site.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
African American Defied Custom, Attempted to Board Trolley Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Herbach & Rademan (& Liberty Bell) was here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Racial Divide at 1948 Democratic Convention	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
First RNC was here in 1856.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
1872 RNC Here; Age of Innocence Scenes Filmed Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Did the hoagie originate here?	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Old Jail Once Occupied Suit Corner	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Fays Theater (a Jim Crow theater), in West Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Oldest Black Church in U.S. started here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
A.V. Barkley Funeral Home, Photographed by John W. Mosley	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Duke Ellington and Cootie Williams Photographed Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
First televised sports interview took place here. It was of Connie Mack.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
What was oldest black-owned business in Philly was here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Former Oldest Black-Owned Business in Philly Was Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Magdalen Society: home to reform prostitutes, was here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Pearl Bailey was a waitress at a jazz club here (has mural).	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Slaves Sold Here, Center City, Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Painter/Composer Samuel Felsted's Parents Were Married Here (1741)	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Human blood was used in war protest here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Peter Stretch's Corner at the Sign of the Dial - Philadelphia Clockmaker	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Jewish Daily Forward was here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
William Henry Hastie Jr. Lived Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Building has its own zip code, Trading Places filmed here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
WWII hero Eddie Houseman lived here.	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
WWII Hero Eddie Houseman's Parents Lived Here	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
WPA Studio was here, Philadelphia	Philadlephia	Pennsylvania
Pine Forge Mansion - a stop on the Underground Railroad	Pine Forge	Pennsylvania
There was once a commune in this old Pipersville PA mansion.	Pipersville	Pennsylvania
Lake Naomi - Ice Harvesting	Pocono Pines	Pennsylvania
Stillwater Lake - Ice Harvesting	Pocono Summit	Pennsylvania
Burglars of FBI Office in the Burglary Book Fled to This Site	Pottstown	Pennsylvania
Joe Biden grew up here.	Scranton	Pennsylvania
Ice Harvest Museum in East Bradford Township, PA	West Chester	Pennsylvania
Magnolia House: hotel was in The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1940	West Chester	Pennsylvania
Battle of Barren Hill, May 1778	Whitemarsh	Pennsylvania
William Penn Inn, part of the Underground Railroad	Wynnewood	Pennsylvania
Blinding of Isaac Woodard Site and Marker	Batesburg-Leesville	South Carolina
Martha Lou's Kitchen for original slow food.	Charleston	South Carolina
Rose Wilder Lane birthplace roadside marker	DeSmet	South Dakota
The Great Negro Mart was here.	Memphis	Tennessee
William Howard Taft Homestead	Derby	Vermont
West River Railroad Newfane Railroad Station	Newfane	Vermont
300-Year Old Ship Dug Up on Construction Site for Indigo Hotel	Alexandria	Virginia
Old West Miniature Village and Museum - Cody, WY	Cody	Wyoming

Wong Kim Ark of birthright citizenship case born here 1873.

San Francisco

California

Constitution Oak Tree

Torrington

Connecticut

The Favorite Shoe Store, Part of Jewish Experience

Townshend

Connecticut

President Garfield was shot here -site of National Gallery of Art

Washington

District of Columbia