Boom, Then Bust

"From here, the first log in the race,

Went forth to seek a dwelling place."

Harriet Bishop, Minnesota, Then and Now, 1869

The St. Croix River ranked second only to the Mississippi as a carrier of logs and lumber. The white pine logs ...

Park Maintenance Building

3915 Gillham Road

The Park Maintenance Building, built in 1905, was designed as an "ornamental barn" by the master architect Adriance Van Brunt. The building, constructed of native limestonea and trimmed with vitrified brick, was to be used to house ...

Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge

The coming of the railroad to Harrisburg in 1836 led to the construction of the first bridges to span the Susquehanna, since the building of the Camelback Bridge in 1817, which planted the seed for what would become the city's ...

Lafayette At Petersburg

From this hill Lafayette, on May 10, 1781, shelled the British in Petersburg.

(On stone under the marker):

Headquarters of

General Lafayette

1781

Frances Bland Randolph

Chapter

D.A.R.

1903.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1 / 301) and Arlington Avenue, in the median on ...

Covered Bridge

Erected 1818, by state, at Fish House over Sacandaga River. D. Stewart, builder. Jacob Shew, Assemblyman. Torn down 1930. 2000 Ft. North

Marker is at the intersection of South Shore Road (County Route 110) and Fish House Road (County Route 109), ...

Hampton's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division

C.S.A.

Hampton's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division.

Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Commanding.

Organization.

1st North Carolina Cavalry,

2nd Carolina Cavalry,

Cobb's Legion, Georgia Cavalry

Jeff. Davis Legion.

September 17-18, 1862.

Hampton's Brigade reached the field on Sept. 17 and took position on the left of Jackson's Command. Occupying with Lee's ...

The Village Burying Ground

Established before 1790 holds in many unmarked and unknown graves the remains of those courageous men and women pioneers on the frontier of downeast Maine. Sea captains, fishermen and farmers, shipwrights and hotelmen, selectmen and legislators, their wives and children, ...

Lee's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division

C.S.A.

Lee's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division,

Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Commanding.

Organization.

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 9th Virginia Cavalry.

(September 15-19, 1862.)

The 3rd, 4th and 9th Virginia Cavalry of Lee's Brigade reached the field late in the after noon of the 15th and took ...

Swift Creek Battlefield: A Landscape of Change

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign began on May 5, 1864, when Union General Benjamin Butler and the 33,000-man Army of the James landed at Bermuda Hundred nine miles northeast of here. General Butler's westward advance threatened Drewry's Bluff and Richmond to ...

Camp Bull

Situated on land owned by Thomas Worthington, Camp Bull was a stockade constructed in this vicinity to confine British prisoners of war during the War of 1812. When Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British fleet on Lake Erie on ...