Hupp House

The Frontier Fort in Strasburg, Virginia
 

Orpheus

At Fort McHenry, Whetstone Point, Baltimore
 

Frank Lloyd Wright is not buried here

Frank Lloyd Wright's Grave in the Unity Chapel Cemetery
 

Cedar Hill

Frederick Douglass' Home  on W Street in Anacostia, DC
 

The Washington Meridian 1848-84

 

Between 1848 and 1884, 24th Street in Washington, D.C.,
was the American Prime Meridian. 

Emblematic Mounds

Madison, Wisconsin, is Mound City.
 

Three Flags over Brown's Hill

The Western End of the Mason-Dixon Survey

The Bernard Baruch Bench of Inspiration

in Lafayette Square, Washington, DC
 

Ingrid Bergman and George Washington's Hippopotamus

at 21st and H Streets NW, Washington, DC

Lottie Moon and Joshua Fry

Viewmont Farm

on the Scottsville Road in Albermarle County, Virginia
 

Red Cross: Clara Barton's House

Steamboat Gothic 

 in Glen Echo, Maryland

The Mayor of Silver Spring

Norman Lane was the "Mayor of Silver Spring"
 

Pomeroy's on the Transpeninsular Line

in Selbyville, Delaware
 

Aquia Sandstone

 

The Public Quarry at Government Island, Stafford County, Virginia 

The Chandler Wobble

at the Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory
 

George Washington's Well

Fort Loudoun in Winchester, Virginia

General Sickles' Leg

At the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Begin Route 40

US Route 40 begins at the World War Monument at Albany Blvd. and Ventnor Ave. in Atlantic City

Greenway Court

The home of Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, at White Post, Virginia

  

Col. Dahlgren's Leg

At the Washington Navy Yard

Within This Wall Is Deposited The Leg of Col. Ulric Dahlgren U.S.V. Wounded July 6th 1863 While Skirmishing In The Streets of Hagerstown With The Rebels After The Battle of Gettysburgh

Grief: The Arsenal Fire of 1864

Lot Flannery's statue of "Grief" atop the Arsenal Fire Monument
at Congressional Cemetery

The Empty Tomb and the Lost Monument

Gathland State Park, on the top of South Mountain near Burkittsville, Maryland
 

The Death of Ross

Beside the North Point Road, September 12, 1814

At this spot, on September 12, 1814, General Robert Ross died. He had been mortally wounded in conflict approximately 1-1/2 miles northwest of here, at the present site of the Aquila Randall monument, and carried by stretcher to this point. He was later interred in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Erected by the Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society and Patapsco Neck Bicentennial Committee.

George Washington Was Born Here

George Washington's Birthplace, Wakefield, Pope's Creek, Oak Grove, Virginia

Williams Ordinary

Williams Ordinary at 17674 Main Street (Rt. 1) in Dumfries was built in the 1760's.
 

The Jug and the Bridge

This stone jug stands in an obscure park on the east side of Frederick, Maryland. It was originally an ornamental monument on the stone turnpike bridge over the Monocacy River.

The Gin Riot, Rodgers' Bastion and the Downward Dog

Yogists display their posteriors at Rodgers' Bastion in Patterson Park, Baltimore 

The Funkstown Turnpike Bridge

This stone arch bridge across Antietam Creek was built in 1823, by James Lloyd, as part of the construction of the National Pike, an eastern feeder of the National Road. Suitably modified in 1931, it became part of US Route 40. Today this is Alt. 40.

Antiques, Civil Rights, Civil War, and Religious Freedom

Four centuries at the Northeast Corner of Caroline and William Streets, Fredericksburg Virginia

R&R Antiques occupies the Woolworth building where sit-ins took place in 1960, and sits on the site of Weedon's Tavern where, in 1777, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and others met to launch the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom. In 1862, Union artillery from nearby Chatham destroyed the Bank of Virginia building on this corner.

A Ghost Town in the Southwest Corner of Maryland

 Brad Corbin and the southwest corner boundary marker in Kempton, Maryland

Mary Hall: The Madam on the Mall

 Mary Ann Hall ran the largest whorehouse in Washington, DC, during the Civil War.

Where the Potomac Begins

The Fairfax Stone near Thomas, West Virginia

The Pigeon Monument

A Monument to the Passenger Pigeon near Hanover, Pennsylvania

L'Hermitage

French Caribbean Slavery in Maryland

 The Best Family Farm, Monocacy National Battlefield near Frederick, Maryland

The North Point of the District of Columbia

On the Road to Washington

Summit Hall Farm

502 S. Frederick Road, Gaithersburg

The Boy Martyrs of Baltimore

The Wells and McComas Monument at East Monument, and Aisquith Streets (Ashland Square) in Baltimore

The Free State Monument

 The Highest Point on Maryland's Road System, 3095 feet
 

 US Route 50 on the top of Backbone Mountain