Full Name: Ahyoka Birth Date: Unknown Death Date: Unknown Ahyoka was the daughter of Cherokee native Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, and the first person to learn the written form of the language referred to as Tsalagi Gawonihisdi. Ahyoka’s...
Birth Date: January 3, 1905 Death Date: February 3, 1961 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Monument Type: Historic/Residence A future actress was born in January 1905. The child’s name was Wong Liu Tsong, yet moviegoers would know her as Anna May Wong. Both...
Full Name: Annie Goodrich Ellsworth Smith Birth Date: January 5th, 1826 Death Date: January 21st, 1900 In the year 1844, Annie Goodrich Ellsworth chose the words used on the world’s first telegraph message following Congress’ approval of a bill to build...
Full Name: Bessie Stringfield Birth Date: March 5, 1911 Death Date: February 16, 1993 Bessie Stringfield was born on March 5, 1911. Her early life has been a confusion to many. There are two accounts of her early life told, one was Stringfield was born Betsy...
Full Name: Casquette Girls Date: Existed from 1704-28 Location: Ship Island, Mississippi Monument Type: Historic/Residence Photograph Caption/Credit: Watteau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons When the French began colonizing North America in the early 1700s, they...
