After the Surrender

The depression before you is the trace of the old Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road. Gen. Robert E. Lee rode this route both to and from his meeting with Grant on April 9, 1865. His return to the army – as he ...

Fort Watson

One of the chain of British

posts in South Carolina.

Located on this Indian Mound.

Besieged April 15-23, 1781

by use of Maham's tower,

Francis Marion forced the British

to surrender and secured for his men

badly needed ammunition and ...

United States Post Office

Oscar Wenderoth, Architect; 1914

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1980

Berkeley’s elegant Main Post Office is representative of the Second Renaissance Revival style, also called Neo-Classical Revival. Government buildings constructed in this era were designed to “educate and develop ...

St. Francis Barracks

These coquina walls were once part of the Franciscan chapel and friary of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, established by missionaries from Spain. Before these walls rose, thatch-roofed wooden building on this site were burned in 1599, rebuilt and ...

Florida

The Sunshine State

Colonized by Spaniards, 1539 • Site of first settlement in U.S., 1565 • Acquired by U.S. from Spain, 1819 • Admitted as 27th state, 1845 • Now nation's fastest growing state • 1963 population 5,639,900 • State song ...

Blacksburg VFW Post 4941 Veterans Monument

In Honor of

All Veterans

Marker is on South Shelby Street south of East Cherokee Street (U.S. 29), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Federal Land Bank

James W. Plachek, Architect, 1938

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated 1985

The Farm Credit Administration built this structure to house federal agricultural banking and financial agencies, including one of the 12 Federal Land Banks that assisted Depression-era farmers. Features of the Moderne-style building ...

Major General Joseph K. F. Mansfield

Major General

Joseph K.F. Mansfield

U.S.A.

Mortally Wounded

38 Yards N. 76'W.

Marker is at the intersection of Mansfield Monument Road and Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling east on Mansfield Monument Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Mansfield

(Front Face):

Major General

Joseph K. F. Mansfield

Commanding the 12th Corps

Army of the Potomac

Mortally wounded near this spot

September 17th, 1862

About 7-35 a.m.

While deploying his corps

in action

(Left Face):Erected by the

State of Connecticut

A.D. 1900

Under the auspices of

Mansfield Post No. 53

Dep't of Connecticut G.A.R.

(Right Face):The ...

The Battle of Santa Clara

January 2-7, 1847

The Battle of Santa Clara was the only campaign fought in the Northern district of California between Californios and United States forces during the Mexican-American war. In the 1840’s an oak forest grew near the present Lawrence Expressway, ...