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Schuylkill Township, PA

This burial ground holds the Anderson family and was dedicated by Isaac Anderson, who served as a first lieutenant in the Chester County militia during the Revolution in 1779 and later represented Pennsylvania in Congress from 1805 to 1807. His life traced the arc from citizen-soldier of the Revolution to lawmaker of the early Republic.

Garland, TX

This cemetery opened in 1858 with the burial of William and Celia Anderson, Kentuckians who had lived on the Missouri frontier before joining their son in the raw new settlements of Dallas County. That son, John Lair Anderson, arrived in 1846 as a settler of the Peters Colony, one of the empresario grants that populated North Texas. Their family home once stood just southwest of these graves.

Bedford, PA · est. 1951

Built in 1815 as the young republic's commerce reached the mountains, the Anderson House gave Bedford its first bank: the Allegheny Bank of Pennsylvania occupied the east room from 1815 to 1832, and its original vault can still be seen. After its banking days the building found a lasting second act, serving since 1924 as the town's public library and community center. It marks the arrival of formal finance in a once-remote frontier town.

Houston, TX

Founded in Oklahoma City in 1904 by the Anderson brothers and their Clayton in-laws, this cotton firm moved to Houston in 1916 and built a sprawling shipping complex on the new Houston Ship Channel. From its perch in the Houston Cotton Exchange, the company grew into a global cotton trader with more than 24,000 employees before diversifying into foods and textiles and finally being absorbed by Quaker Oats in 1986. Its partners left an outsized mark: the M.D. Anderson Foundation seeded the Texas Medical Center, and Will Clayton helped shape the postwar Marshall Plan.

Leander, TX

Thomas Anderson, a Pennsylvania native, built this mill in 1863 in the Texas Hill Country, and during the Civil War it produced gunpowder for the Confederate armies. Small backcountry works like this one helped a South cut off from imported munitions supply its troops from local resources. The State of Texas marked the site in 1936.

Andersonville, GA

Incorporated in 1853 as a small farming village, Andersonville was thrust into history when Camp Sumter prison opened here in 1864 and its commandant, Capt. Henry Wirz, was tried and executed for the suffering of Union prisoners. Amid that misery, the Irish priest Father Peter Whelan — himself a former prisoner of war — came in June 1864 and tended the stockade's prisoners daily for four months, remembered by Union and Confederate men alike as a 'Good Samaritan.' The town today calls itself a 'Civil War Village,' honoring the dead of both sides.

Andice, TX

The Rev. Freeman Smalley, one of Texas's earliest Baptists, preached in this area around 1850, and the congregation organized about 1851 in a log schoolhouse. Known over the years as Stapp, White House, and Pilot Knob Baptist Church, it moved to Andice in 1936—carrying the memory of a first pastor who is said to have hung his pistol on the oak-stump Bible stand while he preached.

Andover, ME

In the small western Maine town of Andover, this memorial honors the local men who served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Like countless New England villages, Andover sent a disproportionate share of its young men to fill the Union ranks, and their absence and loss reshaped the community for a generation. The monument keeps their service in the town's collective memory.

Village of Tarrytown, NY

Here on September 23, 1780, three local militiamen — John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart — stopped a traveler on the road near Tarrytown and discovered he was Major John André, the British adjutant general carrying papers that exposed Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point. Their refusal of André's bribes unraveled one of the Revolution's most dangerous conspiracies. André was later hanged as a spy, and the three captors became early American heroes.

Morganton, NC

In the 1790s the French botanist André Michaux ranged through the still-wild mountains of western North Carolina, cataloging plants unknown to European science. On two occasions in 1794 and 1795 he lodged at "Swan Ponds" near Morganton, using the estate as a base for collecting in the surrounding highlands. His journals and specimens helped introduce Appalachian flora to the wider scientific world.

Lincolnton, NC

The French botanist André Michaux passed through Lincolnton several times in 1794 and 1795 while exploring the flora of western North Carolina. His travels across the Piedmont and mountains were part of a broad scientific survey that carried Appalachian plants into the collections and gardens of Europe.

Stonewall, TX

German immigrants Andreas and Frederike Lindig reached Texas in 1869 and by 1874 had established a 448-acre farmstead of house, summer kitchen, barn, well, and commercial lime kiln in the Hill Country near Stonewall. Andreas built a log farmhouse from native post oak, added limestone shed rooms, and raised cash crops of peanuts, sweet potatoes, and cotton while his sons built homes nearby. The family held the land until 1980, and the founders rest in a nearby family cemetery.

Calvert, TX

Born in Calvert in 1879, Andrew "Rube" Foster rose from pitching for the Waco Yellow Jackets to become the dominant hurler of Black baseball, famed for his fastball and screwball. As a player-manager he built dynasties like the Chicago American Giants, and in 1920 he gathered eight club owners in Kansas City to found the Negro National League—the first lasting African American professional circuit—serving as its president. Honored as the "Father of Black Baseball," he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.

Port O'Connor, TX

A Danish teenager who crossed the Atlantic at thirteen, Andrew Rasmussen spent sixty years at sea along the Texas coast. After his own schooner wrecked in 1885, he joined the very Saluria life-saving crew that had rescued him, rising by 1889 to command the station that later folded into the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1911 he and his wife Theresa built their home on this spot near the Gulf.

Pittsburgh, PA · est. 1996

Andrew Carnegie arrived from Scotland as a poor immigrant boy and rose to become the steel magnate whose Pittsburgh mills helped power America's industrial age. Preaching a "Gospel of Wealth" that held the rich were duty-bound to give their fortunes away, he funded more than 2,500 libraries and endowed institutions devoted to education and world peace. His philanthropy reshaped access to books and learning across the country and beyond.

Dare County, NC

The Reverend Andrew Cartwright planted his first African Methodist Episcopal Zion church near here in 1865, as freedom came to the Albemarle region at the close of the Civil War. A tireless organizer, he built up A.M.E. Zion congregations across the area before serving as an agent of the American Colonization Society in Liberia. His life bridged emancipation at home and the movement to build Black institutions across the Atlantic.

Cuthbert, GA

Founded at Cuthbert in January 1854, Andrew College was named for Bishop James O. Andrew, whose refusal to free his wife's slaves helped split the Methodist Episcopal Church North and South in 1844. Led first by Yale-educated Augustus Alden, it was the second college chartered to confer degrees on women and served as a Confederate hospital in 1863–65. In 1867 it became the first women's college in the South to include physical education in its curriculum.

City of Ithaca, NY

On the Cornell University campus in Ithaca stands a statue honoring Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918), the institution's co-founder and first president. A scholar, diplomat, and reformer, White joined forces with businessman Ezra Cornell in 1865 to create a bold new kind of American university—one that would teach any person any subject, blending practical and classical learning. White led the school through its first two decades and remained on its governing board for half a century.

Crockett, TX

Andrew Edwards Gossett (1812–1890) donated the townsite that became Crockett, the seat of Houston County, which was carved from Nacogdoches territory in 1837. Giving land from his own colonist's grant, he provided the young Republic of Texas county a central place to conduct its government. His gift literally put the town on the map.

Crockett, TX

Andrew Edwards Gossett (1812–1890) moved from Tennessee to Texas in 1833 with his wife Rhoda and a large Mexican land grant. He helped defend the frontier in the unsettled years after the revolution by serving in the Texas Army, and in 1836 he donated land for a townsite, naming it Crockett for his old family friend David Crockett—soon to die at the Alamo. Gossett went on to serve as a peace officer and county judge and raised eleven children by two marriages.

Lancaster, PA · est. 1999

Andrew Ellicott was one of the young republic's most accomplished surveyors, astronomers, and mathematicians, helping fix the boundaries of New York, Pennsylvania, and the new federal capital at Washington, D.C. While living in Lancaster and serving the Pennsylvania Land Office, he tutored Meriwether Lewis in surveying and celestial navigation in 1803—skills Lewis would soon carry across the continent on his expedition west.

Beaumont, TX

This marker honors Andrew F. Smyth, who served as an officer in the Jasper Volunteers during the Texas War for Independence. The 1835–36 revolution pitted Anglo and Tejano settlers against the government of Mexico and produced the short-lived Republic of Texas. Local volunteer companies like the one Smyth helped lead were the backbone of the rebel forces.

Jasper, TX

Andrew F. Smyth, a riverman and farmer, built this Jasper home in 1849, milling its lumber on site and bringing glass and hardware upriver from Galveston. It survives as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark from the era of the young state.

Bellefonte, PA · est. 1950

On this site was born Andrew G. Curtin, Pennsylvania's Civil War governor. Elected in 1861, he steered the state through the conflict, organizing the celebrated Pennsylvania Reserve Corps and championing the soldiers of the Union. His legacy reached beyond the battlefield: he pushed for State Normal Schools to train teachers and secured funding for State Orphan Schools to care for the children of the war dead.

Sherman, TX

Andrew Hanson, born in Schleswig-Holstein and emigrating to America in 1872, reached Texas in 1878 and the next year opened Sherman's first bakery. Over 35 years he built the Star Bakery into a local institution, introducing the town's first delivery service and its first commercially made ice cream. His parents and brothers followed him from Denmark, and the family settled permanently in Sherman.

Arlington, TX

A Tennessee-born Cumberland Presbyterian preacher, Andrew Shannon Hayter came to Texas around 1850 and eventually settled in Tarrant County, where he founded churches, a school and a Masonic lodge and earned his living as a surveyor. His frontier knowledge made him the natural choice in 1876 to help route the railroad and lay out a small town between Dallas and Fort Worth. Offered the honor of naming it for himself, he instead chose 'Arlington,' after Robert E. Lee's Virginia estate.

Round Rock, TX

Andrew J. Palm sailed from Sweden in 1853 with his mother and brothers and settled at Palm Valley, a Swedish community north of Round Rock, on land bought from immigration agent S. M. Swenson. About 1873 he hauled cypress and pine down from Austin to build this house, where he and his wife Carolina raised their eight children. The home was relocated to Round Rock in 1976 and recognized as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

New Orleans, LA

Standing in New Orleans, this monument to Andrew Jackson carries his ringing declaration in defense of national unity. Jackson first won fame here as the general whose ragtag force turned back the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, the climactic victory of the War of 1812. He went on to become the seventh president, and his famous toast against disunion became a byword for federal resolve.

Jacksonville, FL

Founded in 1822 on the St. Johns River, the settlement was named for Andrew Jackson, the general and future president who had just served as provisional governor of the newly acquired Florida Territory. Jackson never lived in the city that bears his name, but his role in bringing Florida under U.S. control tied his legacy to the region.

Richmond, TX

Andrew Jackson Beard fought at San Jacinto in 1836, the decisive battle that won Texas its independence from Mexico. He and his wife Sallie are buried in Big Creek Cemetery, among the early settlers of what became Fort Bend County.

Austin, TX

Alabama-born Andrew Jackson Hamilton moved to Texas in the 1840s and rose through its politics, serving as state attorney general, legislator, and U.S. congressman by 1859. A staunch opponent of secession, he left Texas during the Civil War, then returned when President Andrew Johnson named him provisional governor in 1865. He later sat on the Texas Supreme Court and ran twice, unsuccessfully, for governor before his death in 1875.

Cleveland, TX

Born in Mississippi in 1817, Andrew Jackson Isaacks came to Texas and fought in the Texas Revolution in 1835 before settling into the civic life of a young frontier region. He served as sheriff of Jasper County, raised a large family, farmed and ranched, and became the first postmaster at Tarkington Prairie in the 1850s. Buried where he died in 1864, his remains were reinterred at this site in 1970.

Crockett, TX

A Tennessee native, Andrew Jackson McGown came to Texas in 1835 and fought in the revolution against Mexico, taking part in the decisive Battle of San Jacinto. He went on to help plant the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Texas, serving as a pioneer circuit-riding minister until his death. McGown also founded the newspaper "The Texas Presbyterian" and helped establish Andrew Female College in Huntsville.

Union County, NC

This spot in the Waxhaws country along the Carolina border marks the claimed birthplace of Andrew Jackson, born in 1767 to Scots-Irish settlers on the colonial frontier. Orphaned young during the Revolution, Jackson rose from the backcountry to national fame as the general who defended New Orleans in the War of 1812, and went on to become the seventh president. Both North and South Carolina have long laid claim to his exact birthplace.

Stoneham, TX

Andrew Jackson Montgomery came to Texas around 1830 and took his place in the fight for its independence, serving in Captain James Gillaspie's company at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, the decisive victory that won the Republic of Texas its freedom. The marker, erected by the state in 1957, carries a supplemental plate offering differing dates for his birth and arrival, a reminder of how uncertain early frontier records could be.

Stoneham, TX

Andrew Jackson Montgomery came to Texas in 1819 with the ill-fated James Long Expedition and, by 1823, opened a trading post where two Indian trails crossed — becoming the first known settler in what is now Montgomery County. The town and county both grew from that post and took his family name. He later fought at the Battle of San Jacinto, married Mary Mahulda Farris, and raised nine children.

Seguin, TX

Andrew Jackson Sowell came to Texas as a teenager and joined the fight for its independence. As one of the couriers sent out from the Alamo, he slipped away before the fortress fell in March 1836, carrying pleas for the reinforcements and supplies that never came in time. He lived on for decades afterward, and the State of Texas placed this Star-and-Wreath marker at his grave in 1956.

Salisbury, NC

Before he was a general or a president, Andrew Jackson was a young man reading law in Salisbury, studying under attorney Spruce Macay from 1784 to 1785 in an office that stood a block west. He was admitted to the bar in Rowan County on November 6, 1787, launching the legal and political career that carried him to the White House. Contemporaries remembered the Salisbury-era Jackson as a high-spirited and combative youth.

Austin, TX

Andrew Jackson Zilker arrived in Austin penniless in 1876 and rose to become a businessman and bank director in the booming capital of a young state. Shaped by watching laborers toil along the Ohio River, he championed "practical" education, and when he sold 366 acres including Barton Springs to the city, he steered the payments to the local schools. His gifts of parkland became Zilker Park, still Austin's most beloved green space.

Raleigh, NC

Andrew Johnson was born in humble circumstances near this spot in 1808, in a small kitchen dwelling that still survives. A self-taught tailor who never attended school, he rose through Tennessee politics to the vice presidency and then, after Lincoln's assassination in 1865, to the White House. His stormy presidency during Reconstruction ended in the first impeachment of an American president.

Greeneville, TN

Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 into deep poverty and never spent a day in a schoolhouse, learning to read only as a young man. This replica recreates the humble dwelling of his origins, displayed at the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in the Greeneville he came to call home. It underscores how far he traveled — from a laborer's cabin to the presidency of the United States.

Greeneville, TN

The Homestead was Andrew Johnson's home in Greeneville from the 1850s — the house he returned to across a turbulent career that carried him from tailor and self-taught orator to the presidency. Preserved within the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, its rooms reflect the domestic life of a family at the center of the nation's stormiest years. Here the self-made president lived among neighbors who had known him since his tailoring days.

Greeneville, TN

Before he was president, Andrew Johnson was a tailor, and in the 1830s he ran his own shop in Greeneville, stitching clothes while teaching himself to read and to argue. That original tailor shop survives, sheltered within the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site alongside a museum that traces his unlikely climb from working tradesman to the White House. It is a rare, tangible link to the humble craft that launched a president.

Roanoke Rapids, NC

Andrew Joyner (1786–1856) served as a lieutenant colonel in the War of 1812 and went on to a long career in North Carolina public life, sitting in the state senate from 1835 to 1852. He was also an entrepreneur of the transportation age, leading the Roanoke Navigation Company and the Weldon & Portsmouth Railroad as the region worked to move goods by water and rail. His grave lies a short distance to the south.

Hallettsville, TX

Andrew Kent, a Kentucky-born carpenter, brought his large family to Green DeWitt's Colony in 1830, settling a league of land on the Lavaca River. As tensions with Santa Anna's government mounted, Kent and his son David took up arms at the Battle of Gonzales in 1835, the opening clash of the Texas Revolution. In February 1836 the two argued over who would answer the Alamo's call for help; Andrew sent David home and rode to San Antonio with "The Immortal 32" from Gonzales, dying in the Alamo's fall. Kent County was later named in his honor.

Sherman, TX

Andrew L. Randell, a Denison native and graduate of Princeton and the University of Texas, built a law practice in Sherman and threw himself into civic and church life. His lasting mark came through Freemasonry: he served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas and as executive secretary of the Masonic Service Association of the U.S., leading national disaster-relief efforts and championing Masonic education. He died in 1931 at the age of fifty.

Lockhart, TX

A Tennessee-born settler, Andrew Lee Brock came to Caldwell County in 1848 and started married life on a Boggy Creek parcel gifted by his father-in-law, raising a log cabin and working cotton, grain, and a cotton gin. As his family and fortunes grew, he turned to shaping Lockhart itself, raising livestock and financing a dozen commercial buildings in the town's business district — many still standing today.

Gentrys Mill, TX

Andrew Miller left the Virginia mountains as a young man and pushed onto the Texas frontier, settling near the Hamilton–Comanche county line in 1856. He rode with the frontier Rangers who guarded scattered settlements against Comanche raids. A founder of churches and a donor of land for a church, school, and cemetery, he helped plant the roots of permanent community.

Gonzales, TX

Andrew Ponton came to Texas in 1829, settled in Green DeWitt's colony, and by 1834 served as alcalde—mayor—of Gonzales. When Mexican forces demanded the town's cannon in 1835, his delay in surrendering it helped spark the "Come and Take It" fight now remembered as the opening battle of the Texas Revolution. He also helped rally the Gonzales men, the "Immortal 32," who answered Travis's call and died at the Alamo, and he later served the Republic of Texas as a legislator and judge.

Gonzales, TX

As alcalde of Gonzales, Andrew Ponton wrote the defiant letter of September 26, 1835, refusing Mexico's demand that the colonists surrender their small cannon. Days later, on October 2, he stood among the defenders when Texans faced Mexican troops in the skirmish remembered by the 'Come and Take It' banner. That confrontation is widely regarded as the opening shot of the Texas Revolution.

Felicity, OH

In the decades before the Civil War, the Ohio River was the great dividing line between slaveholding Kentucky and free-soil Ohio, and the moment a freedom seeker stepped onto the northern bank the most dangerous leg of the journey began. Felicity, a small Clermont County village a few miles inland, sat squarely on that escape corridor, and Andrew Powell turned his own prosperity into a tool of resistance. Rather than hide his passengers, he moved them in plain sight, using his distinctive and well-recognized private carriage as cover to carry fugitives inland from the river toward the next link in the network. It was a quietly audacious gamble that a respectable man's conspicuous coach would draw less suspicion than a covered wagon on a back road.

Washington, TX

Andrew Robinson Sr. was the first of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" colonists to reach Texas, arriving in November 1821 with his family and later receiving title to over 9,000 acres. He co-founded the town of Washington, ran a ferry at the La Bahia Crossing, and kept a hotel and saloon. In 1835 he fought at the Battle of Gonzales, where his unit carried the original Lone Star flag sewn by Sarah Dodson.

Clarksville, TX

This Gothic revival home went up in 1874 for the Andrew Thompson family, built by W. Otto Glossnop, a German cabinetmaker who had settled in Clarksville in the 1860s. Sold to the Burdett family in 1882 and kept by them until 1947, the house survives as an unusual example of the style in Texas, with steep gables, triangular dormers, and diamond-paned windows.

Gonzales, TX

This marker remembers Andrew Zumwalt, born in 1817 and a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, the 1836 clash that won Texas its independence from Mexico. He lived on into 1886, part of the generation of young men who fought for the republic and then helped settle it.

New Bern, NC

Established in 1802 to serve all local Methodists, Andrew's Chapel became a spiritual crossroads in New Bern. After 1864 it served as a mother church for the A.M.E. Zion faith, and in 1879 it was reorganized as St. Peter's. Its story traces the emergence of independent Black congregations in the wake of emancipation.

Hallettsville, TX

Tied to the Hackberry community, this burial ground took its name from settler A.G. Andrews, who by 1866 had given land for a cemetery and Baptist church. Its oldest marked grave, from 1860, belongs to Mexican War veteran Alfred Morrow, and among those buried here is Joseph Lawrence, a veteran of the Battles of Plum Creek and San Jacinto who at his death in 1897 was believed the oldest living veteran of the Texas Revolution. A local association still tends the grounds and gathers for annual homecomings.

Frankel City, TX

Andrews County was created by the Texas legislature in 1876 and finally organized in 1910, its wide plains among the last parts of Texas to be settled. It honors Richard Andrews, remembered as the first man to fall in the Texas Revolution, killed at the Battle of Concepción near San Antonio on October 28, 1835. His name carried into the far West Texas frontier the memory of the fight for Texas independence.

Andrews County, TX

In December 1929 the Deep Rock Oil Company brought in the C. E. Ogden No. 1, a well producing 200 barrels a day from the San Andres lime formation—the discovery well of Andrews County and the first of 730 wells in the Fuhrman-Mascho field. Purchased by the Tripplehorn brothers of Fort Worth in 1932, it kept pumping for decades. By the mid-1960s Andrews had become the top oil-producing county in Texas and the nation, having yielded more than a billion barrels.

New York, NY

From 1974 until his death in 1987, Pop artist Andy Warhol lived at this New York address, at the height of his fame as the era's defining chronicler of American consumer culture. Best known for his silkscreens of Campbell's Soup cans and icons like Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, he also founded Interview magazine and produced experimental underground films. His quip that 'everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes' entered the language.

Tiburon, CA · est. 1970

In 1775 the Spanish packet San Carlos became the first known European ship to enter San Francisco Bay, anchoring in this cove while Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala directed the bay's first survey and named the island Isla de los Angeles. Over the following centuries Angel Island served as a Mexican rancho, a U.S. military post, a bay-defense site, and both a quarantine and immigration station. Its layered history mirrors California's passage from Spanish frontier to American gateway.