National Cemetery/British Barracks

The Spanish first constructed this building along the edge of the walled city for use as Franciscan monastery during 1577. Following the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, the British occupied St. Augustine converting the building for use ...

Marine Barracks

The oldest continually active post in the Corps, the Marine Barracks served as Marine Corps Headquarters from 1801 to 1901. Here recruits and officers were trained, and vital decisions were made affecting Corps development. Troops quartered at the Barracks played ...

Band Barracks

A regimental band was located where there were regimental headquarters. The 18th U.S. Infantry band is pictured here. The band's quarters, located between the blockhouse and post trader's store, consisted of two buildings. One was the barracks and the other ...

Enlisted Barracks

Four enlisted barracks were hastily assembled during the winter of 1867-1868. They faced the parade ground on three sides. Each barrack held a company of 60 to 100 men and consisted of two squad rooms, a room for the first ...

Barracks, Courthouse, Jail

The building in front of you is very much as it appeared in the 1890s. First built as military barracks, it was later converted for use as a courthouse and jail. Over time its appearance changed to accommodate different needs ...

Barracks     The Virginia Military Institute

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States.

U. S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1966

Marker is on Letcher Avenue, on ...

Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks

Built about 1868, soon after the U.S. Army's post-Civil War reoccupation of Fort Duncan, this building played a part in aviation history when the first military cross-country flight, from Fort McIntosh in Laredo, landed here in 1911. By 1932 the ...

Convention Army The Barracks

In Jan. 1779, during the American Revolution, 4,000 British troops and German mercenaries (commonly known as “Hessians”) captured following the Battle of Saratoga in New York arrived here after marching from Massachusetts. It was called the Convention Army after the ...

New Cavalry Barracks

The earliest quarters for soldiers at Fort Clark were tents along Las Moras creek near the spring. During the fort’s 1870s building boom, three cavalry barracks were constructed, but by the late 1920s they had become too deteriorated for continued ...

National Historic Landmark - Old Barracks

National Historic Landmark – Old Barracks (Trenton)

This 2-1/2 story field stone structure is the only surviving barracks of five erected by New Jersey's Colonial legislature to house troops during the French and Indian War.

At different times during the Revolution, American ...