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...
Oldest child to Silas and Lucinda Parker, Cynthia was born in Illinois sometime around 1825. By 1833, her family had uprooted and moved to Texas as her father became enlisted in the military there. The Parkers were awarded a settlement that abutted Comanche territory....
Full Name: Edna St. Vincent Millay Birth Date: February 22, 1892 Death Date: October 19, 1950 Location: Millay Room, Whitehall Inn, Camden, Maine Monument Type: Historic/Residence Cora Lounnella Millay gave birth to Edna St. Vincent Millay in 1892. The flourishing...
Birth Date: August 6, 1886 Death Date: November 25, 1916 Location: Lewis, New York Monument Type: Historic/Residence In 1886, Inez entered the world as the firstborn child of John Milholland and Jean Torry Milholland. Two more children, Vida and John, joined the...
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1906, Josephine Baker grew up in a diverse, low-income neighborhood. At eight years old, she began working to help support her family and by twelve years of age she dropped out of school to work full-time....
