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This placard is attached to the side of St. Augustine Church.

This placard recognizes the cemetery was part of the Livaudais Plantation, but does not acknowledge the slave graves within, despite mentioning "Here are buried many persons of German and Irish origin who lived in the city of Lafayette."

Audubon Park uptown was the activation site for the 9th Cavalry, or the Buffalo Soldiers, in 1866. The Buffalo Soldiers were also known as the "Negro Cavalry," and fought on the Western Front, earning the respect of the Plains Indians they…

This placard marks the spot where Homer Plessy was arrested on June 7, 1892, for boarding a train designated for whites only. This event sparked the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case over the legalization of segregation.

The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, named after Mr. Gilbert, one of the leaders of the Savannah civil rights movement, is housed in a building that was once home to the Wage Earners Savings and Loan Bank, one of the largest banks for blacks…

The Lee monument was dedicated in 1884, and was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Legend has it that Lee faces north in order to always be facing his military adversaries.

The Second African Baptist Church was founded in 1802, by Andrew Bryan, Georgia's first African American religious leader and former slave. It was on the steps here where Gen. Sherman read the Emancipation Proclamation, and promised the newly freed…

The yard would have been the main arena for the slaves of Nathaniel Russel. The "dependencies," or outbuildings where they lived and worked would have been located within this space.

A mobile home used to sit here, which housed the Historic Africatown Visitor's Center. All that stands here today is the remains of a dilapadated welcome sign, a parking lot, an ADA ramp, and what appears to be a memorial with gold busts to several…

The St. Charles Hotel used to sit on this site at St. Charles Avenue and bounded by Gravier, Common, and Carondelet Streets. Today it is a Hilton Hotel which neither has any relation to the original hotel at this site, nor any marker indicating the…