ALABAMA
Ivy Green is located at 300 West North Commons Street; 205-383-4066. Open daily except major holidays. Admission fee $3 adults. The ten-acre site includes the main house, several flower gardens, and the small cottage where Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan lived. Many of her personal belongings, including her library and braille typewriter, are on display. In summer The Miracle Worker is performed on the grounds on Friday and Saturday nights. The annual Helen Keller Festival is held the last weekend of June.

The Helen Keller Fragrance Garden for the Blind is located at the Alabama School for the Blind, 705 South Street, Talladega; 205-761-3259. The garden contains handrails on the brick walls and Braille markers enable blind students to identify the plants. A fountains adds to the sounds of the pleasant scene. The garden is open daily dawn until dusk.

The Marie and Eugene Callahan American Printing House Museum for the Blind is located at 1839 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky; 800-223-1839. Admission is free. This museum includes a bronze relief of Helen Keller done by Winifred Holt, plus personal memmorabilia of Helen.

A  state historical marker commemorates the Mount Vernon Arsenal and Barracks in Mobile. It mentions Geronimo, but not Lozen.

CALIFORNIA
In San Diego, Joan Brown's  36-foot-tall “Horton Plaza Obelisk” stands downtown in the plaza, located between Broadway and Market Streets, 4th and 6th Avenues. Her 18-foot-tall, ceramic-tiled “The Center Obelisk” was erected in Beverly Hills in 1986.

Joan Brown has several pieces on display in and around San Francisco: her 1989 “Obelisk” stands at the Rincon Center, south of Market Street. Her 1987 ceramic-tiled “Pine Tree Obelisk” is in Walton Park, in the Embarcadero/Pier 7 area. The 1990 “Four Seasons Obelisk” stands in the roof garden of a downtown building owned by the Hines Interests, Ltd. Partnership. And on the outside of the Performing Arts garage lies a bronze wall relief, “The Dancing Musicians and the Dancer,” featuring a bronze flutist, guitar player, and dancer. The figures are on the Grove Street side of the garage, between Gough and Franklin streets.

In Sacramento, CA, Joan Brown's “The Peaceable Kingdom” consists of two six-foot-long tiled benches, shaped as acts, and a 6,000 square-foot mosaic floor, decorated with pictures of native California animals. This piece is located in the Arden Fair Mall.

COLORADO
The Black American West Museum is located at 3091 California Street in Denver, Colorado; 303-292-2566. Wheelchair accessible, the museum is open Wednesday through Sunday. There is a very small admission fee.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The National Cathedral is located at Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenues, NW, Washington, DC; 202-537-6200. Open daily. Admission is free. Tours are offered twice daily.

FLORIDA
Fort Pickens, which served as a prison for Geronimo and Lozen, is located on Santa Rosa Island in western Florida, near the city of Pensacola. Today it is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, located on Pensacola Beach Road; 904-932-2622.

GEORGIA
Andersonville National Historic Site, Highway 49 North, nine miles northeast of Americus and just east of town; 912-924-0343. Open daily; admission is free.

ILLINOIS
The Bessie Coleman Branch of the Chicago Public Library is located at 731 E. 63rd Street, Chicago, IL; 312-747-7760.

Forest Home Cemetery is located at 863 S. Des Plaines Avenue; 708-366-1900.

Lincoln Cemetery, located in Merrionette Park, at 123rd Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago; 773-445-5400. Open daily until dusk, maps showing Bessie Coleman's gravesite are available at the entrance.

KANSAS
The International Forest of Friendship memorial park is located west of town, on US Route 73, and maps of the walking paths are available at the Atchison Chamber of Commerce.

MARYLAND
There are several sites in the Bucktown/Cambridge area associated with Harriet Tubman. A historical marker noting her birthsite is located on the Bucktown Road/MD 397 eight miles south of Cambridge (and Route 50). You can also visit the site of the Brodas Plantation, where she was born and where a historical marker stands, and the Long Wharf on High Street, where Tubman once arrived by boat and boldly freed her sister who was to have been sold at the courthouse a few block away. The Harriet Tubman Coalition in Cambridge offers tours of places associated with her in the area, and also presents slide shows about her life in the Dorchester County Library. For more information contact the Coalition at 424 Race Street, Box 1164, Cambridge, MD 21613, or call 410-228-0401. Tours are offered Monday through Fridays, or by appointment, at a modest fee.

The Bazzel Methodist Church, where Harriet Tubman worshipped in open-air services during her youth, is located on Bestpitch Ferry Road. The church holds a special service on the third Sunday of June to honor her.

MASSACHUSETTS
Clara Barton Birthplace Museum. North Oxford is located on Route 12 just south of the junction with Route 20, about five miles south of Worcester.

North Cemetery is located on Route 12, Oxford, MA. Oxford is located on Route 12 near Interstate 395, about eight miles south of Worcester.

MICHIGAN
At the grave of Sojourner Truth, the Sojourner Truth Memorial has the inscription “Is God Dead?”, which is what she asked Frederick Douglass when he was feeling hopeless about the cause of abolition. Her grave is located at Lot #634 in Oakhill Cemetery, located on Oakhill Drive off South Street; 616-964-7321. The cemetery is open daily during daylight hours.

The Kimball House Museum also contains an exhibit on Sojourner Truth, with some rare personal effects, including clothing worn by her, a small piece of wood from her old local home, photographs of her, and a holograph of her only known signature. She used to sell photographs of herself with the caption “I sell the shadow to support the substance.” The museum is located at 196 Capital Avenue, NE, Battle Creek; 616-965-2613. Open Tuesday through Saturday, there is a small admission fee.

The Sojourner Truth Monument is located next to the Kellogg Arena, in Battle Creek; 616-965-2613. There is also a Michigan Legal Milestone Marker for her at the Battle Creek Hall of Justice, at 67 Michigan Avenue East, which commemorates “one of America’s most influential crusaders for justice.”

MONTANA
The Bozeman Pass is marked with a state marker at the pass on US Route 10.

The Cascade County Historical Museum and Archives has information and photographs of Mary Fields, plus information on local history, farming, mining, railroading. They offer tours of the area as well. They're located at Paris Gibson Square, 1400 First Avenue, Cascade; 406-452-3462.

The ghost town of Castle is located off Route 294, in North-Central Montana. To get there, go six miles east of White Sulphur Springs on US 12, then fifteen miles south off Highway 294. Some weathered old buildings remain. Check locally for road conditions before trying the last several miles. The route is rougher than Calamity Jane on her worst days.

Hillside Cemetery, where Mary Fields is buried, is located on St. Peter's Mission Road at the foot of the mountains, between the town of Cascade and the mission. For information call 406-468-2808. Open daily until sunset.

The Lewis & Clark Memorial, a life-sized bronze statue of Lewis, Clark, Sacajawea, and her son Jean Baptiste, commemorates their trip in this region. The statue, Montana’s official state memorial of the expedition, stands at 1801 Front Street, Fort Benton.

Calamity Jane made Livingston, Montana her home off and on from 1884 until her death in 1903. Her cabin, located at 213 Main Street, was torn down in 1934. On its site today is the Moose Hall. There is no commemoration of Jane.

Pompey's Pillar is a national historic landmark, located at exit 23 off I-94, 28 miles east of Billings; 406-657-6262. Open daily Memorial Day to Labor Day. There is an admission fee. The site has interpretive markers, and a fairly steep walking trail to the site of the carvings. The most historic of the carvings, including Clark’s, are protected by glass. The center offers interpretive programs, and replicas of some signatures for people unable to make the hike up the pillar.

A historical marker on U.S. Route 10 near Three Forks, MT marks the approximate site of Sacajawea's capture by the Minitaree, and a Sacajawea Memorial stands in a small triangular park in Three Forks.

NEBRASKA
Willa Cather State Historic Site comprises six restored buildings, which interpret her life and work. The former Garber Bank Building (which appeared in one of her books), houses manuscripts, letters, photographs and memorabilia. An interpretive center is located in her childhood home, which also contains family mementos, at 338 North Webster Street, the intersection of Routes 281 and 136; 406-746-3285. Open 8am-5pm Monday through Saturday, 1-5pm Sunday, year-round; closed major holidays. There is an admission fee to the Center.

The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation, at 326 North Webster, offers a walking tour of Red Cloud, and sponsors driving tours of the area. A state historical marker fifteen miles north of town, at the intersection of US 281 and NE 4, also commemorates her.

The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is a 610-acre virgin prairie ecosystem named for Willa, established in 1974 and maintained in its natural state by the Nature Conservancy. It is located along US 281 about five and a half miles South of Red Cloud.

Crawford, Nebraska was on the stage route from Deadwood, South Dakota to Sidney, Nebraska, and Calamity Jane came here in the late 1880s from Deadwood, looking to hire dance hall girls. She lived in a tent by the railroad tracks during her stay. Calamity is mentioned on the state historical marker for Crawford, located at the junction of Routes 2, 20 and 71, southeast of town at the Visitor Information Center.

NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Old Burying Ground Cemetery is located in Jaffrey Center. Jaffrey Center is located on Route 124, two miles west of Jaffrey and fifteen miles southeast of Keene, NH.

NEW JERSEY
The Battle of Monmouth occurred in Freehold, New Jersey on June 28, 1778, the last major conflict in that war, and its biggest one-day battle Other websites which discuss the battle include
Battle of Monmouth2 and Battle of Monmouth3. The Monmouth Battlefield State Park is located on Route 98; 908-462-9616. It is open during daylight hours, year-round, with extended hours in the summer. Monmouth is undeveloped, but unlike other battlefields it is rather festive. In addition to "Molly Pitcher's Well," a reproduction of the well she is said to have used, there is also a picnic area, a nature center run by the NJ Audubon Society, and 25 miles of trails oin the park. The visitor center, which has exhibits explaining the battle, is open daily. Admission is free. The nature center's number is 908-780-7007. There is also a monument to the Battle of Monmouth in town, one panel of which features Molly, across the street from the Monmouth County Historical Museum at 70 Court Street; 908-462-1466.

The Tempe Wick House is located on Morristown Avenue and Route 287, in Morristown, NJ; 201-539-2016. Open daily. Admission is free. Supposedly one can still see the faint imprint of a horse's hoof on the staircase. A garden at the farm features the colonial plants needed for everyday life in that age, including medicinal herbs, flax for linen, and soapwort.

NEW YORK
Several sites in New York City are associated with Willa Cather: she initially lived at 60 Washington Square South in a seedy studio, now razed and occupied by New York University Law School. Years later she would set a short story, “Coming, Aphrodite!” in this neighborhood. She soon moved into a more comfortable brownstone apartment at 5 Bank Street with her long-time lover and companion Edith Lewis (1882-1972); they lived there from 1913 to 1927. That building has also been demolished, but a plaque on Bank Street notes its location. For a time they lived in the Grovenor Hotel, which once stood at 35 Fifth Avenue. And from 1932 until Willa’s death in 1947 they lived at 570 Park Avenue, just above 62nd Street, in New York. (Neither of these sites is open to the public, but a plaque commemorates Willa at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Streets.)

The 1750 Colonel Gerardus Hardenberg House in Hurley, NY still stands, although it is not open to the public, but you can walk the Historic Hurley area and get a feel for the community where Sojourner Truth lived as a child. Twenty-five buildings from the 1700s still stand, including the Crispell House with its slave quarters, and the Richard TenEyck House, which was a station on the Underground Railroad. Brochures are available for a self-guided walking/driving tour of Hurley, published by the Hurley Heritage Society, Box 1661, Hurley, NY 12443; 914-338-1661. Once a year, on the second Saturday of July, the Dutch Reformed Church offers a tour of some of the houses; contact the church, located on Main Street, at 914-331-4121.

Fort Hill Cemetery, where Harrriet Tubman is buried, is located at 19 Fort Street, off Parker; 315-253-8132. On the first anniversary of her death the city of Auburn declared an unprecendented one-day memorial to Harriet, and unveiled a bronze memorial plaque to her, located at the entrance to the Cayuga County Courthouse.

Freedom Park, a community tribute to Harriet Tubman, is located at 17 North Street (Route 34) in Auburn, NY; 315-255-4104.

The Mother A.M.E. Zion Church, founded in 1796 is New York's first African-American church, and one of country's oldest. It was here in 1843 that Isabella Baumfree stood up one day in the middle of a service and said that henceforth she would be known as Sojourner Truth, “Sojourner because I am a wanderer, Truth because God is truth.” The church is located at 140-146 West 137th Street, between Malcolm X Blvd. (Lenox Avenue) and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd., in New York, New York; 212-234-1545.

The Oswego Historical Society has Dr. Walker's diploma, assistant surgeon's medal, and several photographs and letters. You can also see her Congressional Medal of Honor by appointment. The Society is located at the Richardson-Bates House Museum, at 135 E. Third Street; 315-343-1342. Open Tuesday through Friday, 10am-5pm, weekends 1-5pm. Closed Monday and holidays. There is an admission fee.

NORTH DAKOTA
The Lewis & Clark expedition built Fort Mandan to live in over the winter of 1804-05, on the east bank of the Missouri river, about six miles below the mouth of the Knife River. The original Fort Mandan itself was washed away by the Missouri River, but a reconstruction, run by the McClean County Historical Society, is located in Fort Mandan Park, on County Road 17, three miles west of town; 701-462-3482. Open daily. Admission is free.

OHIO
Joan Brown's “Tiger Obelisk” stands in the Ocaseck Government Office Building, installed in 1994 in Akron, Ohio.

A plaque on the side of the Sojourner Truth Building, which now houses the Summit County Human Services Department, commemorates Sojourner Truth's famous speech in 1851, which occurred at 37 North High Street.

OREGON
The Fort Clatsop National Memorial is located south of Astoria, Oregon, on Route 3, off US Route 101; 503-861-2471. Open daily except Christmas. There is a small admission is fee. The original fort was destroyed by fire. An exact replica stands today, and during the summer months park rangers dressed in period costumes show how the explorers lived, and give demonstrations in tanning and sewing hides, woodworking, candlemaking, and using muzzle-loading rifles. Sacajawea, along with her husband and infant child, stayed in the first room to the right as one enters the fort.

PENNSYLVANIA
Lucretia Mott is buried at the Friends Fair Hill Burial Ground, located at 45 West Schoolhouse Lane, off Cambria, in Philadelphia.

The site of Molly Pitcher's home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania is midway between North Bedford and North East Streets, on the south side of North Street, not far from the army post. She is buried in the Old Graveyard, just east of the highway marker on South Hanover Street, between W. South and Walnut Streets. Her grave is marked by a flagpole and a heroic statue, unveiled in 1916, which shows her as she looked as a young woman, holding a cannon's ramrod. Two bas-reliefs show the battle, and a poem by Sarah Woods Parkinson commemorates her.

A Pennsylvania Historical Marker provides information on Lucretia Mott's home "Roadside," located at 611 Old York Road, at Willow Avenue. The marker lies on State Route 611, north of Cheltenham Avenue, just across the line in Montgomery County. The gatehouse is all that remains to mark the house site.

RHODE ISLAND
The "Great Swamp Fight" monument in South Kingston commemorates the pre-emptive strike by English settlers against the Naragansetts in December of 1675. The monument, a pillar and a pile of stones, lies in the Great Swamp Wildlife Reservation, located on Great Neck Road/Route 2, about 1 1/4 miles south of the intersection with Route 138, southwest of South Kingston; 401-789-0281.

The Wampanoag’s traditional homeland was on the slopes of Mount Hope, Rhode Island, and two memorials there remain - “King Philip’s Chair,” a stone seat cut into the rocks, where chiefs were installed. And a stone cairn nearby marks the site of Metacom’s death. They are both now on the grounds of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, which has an outstanding display of New England Native American artifacts, as well as items from the native cultures of Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The Haffenreffer Museum is located at 300 Tower Street, near the junction of Metacom Avenue (State Route 136) and Tower Road; 401-253-8388. Open 11am-5pm daily except Monday, June through August, 11am-5pm weekends only, or by appointment September through May. Admission $3 adults, $1 children. The museum is wheelchair accessible, but the walk to King Philip’s chair is not. The museum is planning in the future to move to the Brown campus in Providence; call before visiting.

The Weetamoo Woods in Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island, is one of the areas where Weetamoo’s group lived during the war. The 450-acre preserve is located about half a mile east of Tiverton Four Corners, on East Road/Route 179. The property includes woodlands, swamp, and the remains of an 18th-century mill and village. Call the town of Tiverton for more information; 401-624-4277.

SOUTH DAKOTA
Dakota National Park, located west of Mobridge, SD off US 12. Turn left on SD 1806 and drive South four miles; look for a large billboard advertising the site. School children donated their pennies in 1929 to have this memorial granite marker erected to commemorate her lost gravesite. The statue erected here is a replica of the one made by Alice Cooper, which stands in Portland, OR. A historical marker also commemorates “Sakakawea” at Sitting Bull’s grave, located six miles west on US 12, then four miles south. Her monument, which tells the story of her life, is on the summit of a hill near State Route 8.

Calamity Jane is buried at the historic Mount Moriah Cemetery. The cemetery is located at 6 Smith Road, on a steep hill off Cemetery Road, north of Main Street. There is a $1 admission charge for adults, 50 cents for children. Local literature is not particularly flattering to her, perhaps not surprising given her tough demeanor and her reputation for hard drinking and random gun play.

TEXAS
Joan Brown's  “The City’s History” is a forty-foot tall obelisk covered with ceramic tiles, which illustrates events in Arlington’s history and development. The obelisk stands in The Parks shopping mall in Arlington, Texas.

WASHINGTON
Joan Brown's public work was “Black Mustangs,”a mural on concrete, seven feet tall and 47 feet wide, located at Mattson Junior High School. Kent is located on Route 167, about ten miles north of Tacoma, WA.

Sacajawea State Park in Pasco, Washington, marks the spot at which the Lewis & Clark expedition first saw the Columbia River, on the final leg of their journey to the Pacific Ocean. The park is dedicated to Sacajawea's role on the expedition, and to the culture of the native people they encountered in this area. The park lies southwest of town on U.S. 12, at the junction of the Snake and Columbia Rivers; 509-545-2361. The Sacajawea Interpretive Center has local artifacts and interpretive displays. Open 10am-6pm Wednesday through Sunday, mid-April to mid-September.

WYOMING
The Grave of Sacajawea is located in the Shoshone Cemetery in Fort Washakie, on the Wind River Reservation. A monument to her was erected in 1941, with some of her direct descendants present. Next to the grave is a monument to her first son Jean Baptiste. She is also commemorated by a marker in the Bishop Randall Chapel at the cemetery. The cemetery is about three miles south of Wind River, near the Shoshone Reservation Headquarters; 307-255-8265. A marker at the cemetery's Bishop Randall Chapel also honors her.

The Sheridan Inn, a historic hotel built in 1893, was at one time owned by Buffalo Bill Cody, and it hosted many famous guests, Calamity Jane among them. The Sheridan Inn is located at Broadway and Fifth Street; 307-674-5440. Open daily. Admission is free. Guided tours and historical lectures are available at a small cost. Its decor today includes photographs of its Wild West past.