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William Tennent’s Church

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From UlsterScotsAgency: Reverend William Tennent, a Presbyterian minister with links to Portadown, and whose inspirational work in education in Pennsylvania helped create Princeton University, has been commemorated with an Ulster History Circle Blue Plaque. William Tennent worshipped at Vinecash Presbyterian Church. Some of his family were baptised there. He emigrated to America in 1718. His cousin James Logan, born in Read more...
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Oude Boteringestraat 36-38

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Stadsmonumenten.nl The oldest part of the former court building is from the early 15th century. Wigbold Wigboldus became in 1477, the owner of the meters-high stone house. Until 1585, the building was owned by the prominent squire family Van Ewsum. The last Van Ewsum, Christoffer, was kind to the persecuted Mennonites and provided their wanted leader, Menno Simons, shelter. Photographed Read more...
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Menno Monument

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GAMEO: The Menno Monument (coordinates: 53° 5′ 56″ N, 5° 28′ 54″ E [53.098889, 5.481667]), in Witmarsum, Dutch province of Friesland, was erected on the site where the meetinghouse of the Witmarsum Mennonites once stood. Tradition says that the house of Herman and Gerrit Jansz stood here, where Menno first preached after leaving the Roman Catholic Church in 1536, and often stayed, and where he was probably married…. Photo Read more...
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Isaac Watts Statue, Abney Park

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Abney Park: Dr Watts is a famous nonconformist English Christian minister, theologian and wit. He was prolific hymn writer, poet, and notable man of logic with many quotes attributed to him. He is credited with writing some 750 psalms alone, the most famous still in use today, which has earned him the title “The Father of English Hymnody”. His hymns Read more...
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Isaac Watts Statue, Southampton

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From Wikipedia: Watts was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England, in 1674 and was brought up in the home of a committed religious nonconformist; his father, also Isaac Watts, had been incarcerated twice for his views. Watts had a classical education at King Edward VI School, Southampton, learning Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. BBC: A statue has been given new fingers to mark the 350th birthday of one of Read more...
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Sarah Flower Adams Birthplace

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Author of: Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee! E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me; Still all my song shall be nearer, my God, to Thee, Chorus: Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee! From Wikipedia: “Nearer, My God, to Thee” is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob’s dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated Read more...
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Homeplace of Baylus Benjamin (B.B.) McKinney

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Inscription: B.B. McKinney was born here on July 22, 1886. He was a gospel song writer, evangelistic singer, teacher, and music editor. He composed 149 songs and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1982. Some of his best-loved hymns are “The Nail Scarred Hand,” “Let Others See Jesus in You,” “Satisfied With Jesus,” “Speak to My Read more...
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The Four Immortal Chaplains

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Built in 2011, this memorial, and others like it around the country, honors the legacy of the Four Chaplains: During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester was part of a convoy of six ships heading for Greenland when an enemy u-boat attacked, firing a torpedo into the ship’s midsection. The Dorchester quickly began taking on Read more...
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Protestant Martyrs Prison

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Inscription: In the vaults beneath this building were imprisoned ten of the seventeen Protestant martyrs who were burned at the stake within a few yards of this site 1555 – 1557. Their names are recorded on the memorial to be seen on Cliffe Hill. Photographed by Michael Herrick, September 12, 2018, HMDB.org Read more...
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Windsor Martyrs

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Beyond this site the following were martyred for their faith Henry Filmer Anthony Pierson Robert Testwood Burnt at the stake 28th July 1543 Read more about them at Foxes Book of Martyrs Photographed by Stephen Palmer, March 5, 2023, HMDB.org Read more...
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Lewes Martyrs

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From Wikipedia: The Lewes Martyrs were 17 Protestants who were burned at the stake in Lewes, Sussex, England, between 1555 and 1557. These executions were part of the Marian persecutions of Protestants during the reign of Mary I. On 6 June 1556, Thomas Harland of Woodmancote, near Henfield, Sussex, carpenter, John Oswald (or Oseward) of Woodmancote, husbandman, Thomas Reed of Ardingly, Sussex, and Thomas Avington (or Euington) of Ardingly, Sussex, turner, were burnt. [1][2][3] Richard Woodman and Read more...
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Paul and “The Place of Hearing”

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Acts 25:23 “And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth.”   Text of Marker: “For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse Read more...
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Pontius Pilate Replica Stone

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Discovered in 1961, this is the only contemporary record of Pilate outside of the Bible Inscription: “(Po)ntius Pilatus, the prefect of Judaea, (erected) a (building dedicated) to (the emperor) Tiberius”. Replica. The original inscription, found in secondary use during the excavations of the theater, is on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Pontius Pilatus was the Roman prefect who Read more...
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Old Briery Church

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Samuel Davies was the pastor of Patrick Henry, and later President of Princeton University, before he died at age 37. Text: Just to the north stands Briery Church, organized in 1755 following the missionary work of Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies. The first church was built about 1760 and was replaced in 1824. The present Gothic Revival church was built about Read more...
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Dissenter’s Glebe of Samuel Davies

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Samuel Davies was Patrick Henry’s pastor growing up. Marker: Just west was Polegreen Church’s 18th-century glebe, a farm and residence provided for the benefit of its pastor. Polegreen was a congregation of Presbyterians dissenting from Virginia’s established Church of England. The Rev. Samuel Davies (1723-1761), a leader of the Great Awakening in the South, was Polegreen’s first pastor (1748-1759). A Read more...
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Colonel James White House

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Boyhood home of Rev. Robert Sheffey, “The Saint of the Wilderness”, legendary circuit-riding frontier preacher who gave up wealth and social position to spread the Word and Spirit of God. Built in 1820 by James and Elizabeth White. Partially burned in 1864 during the Civil War. Restored 1866. Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 23, 2022, HMDB.org Read more...
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Evangelist Lester L. Roloff

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Youngest son of Harry A. and Sadie Roloff born at Dawson, Texas on the old Blackland Farm where he spent his boyhood days, he learned the discipline of hard work and of frugal endeavor. Equipped with the word of God. The courage of the American frontier and the homespun philosophy of the common people, Brother Roloff embarked on the road Read more...
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Evangelist Billy Graham’s Crusade for Christ

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This plaque commemorates the 1963 Crusade for Christ with a total attendance of 920,927 highlighted by the concluding session on Sunday, September 8th. Citizens from every walk of life occupied every seat and spilled onto the playing field grass to establish a record turnstile attendance for a single event in the Coliseum of 134,254. An additional 20,000 people were estimated Read more...
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Dakota Missions on the Frontier

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In the 1830s and 1840s Christian Missionaries came into Indian Country, which included Bloomington, with the purpose of converting Dakota Indians to Christian beliefs and white person’s ways. This included farming, owning property, receiving a formal education and establishing a money-based economy. Missions established to serve the Dakota were located in proximity to rivers or lakes by permanent Native American Read more...
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Rice the Missionary

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This plaque is located at Luther Rice Memorial Baptist Church, an American Baptist congregation named in honor of Luther Rice. From HMDB: Luther Rice was one of the first foreign missionaries from the United States. Along with Adoniram Judson and three others, he was ordained a Congregationalist missionary in 1812. In India he and the Judsons accepted the Baptist view Read more...

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