"The Big Guns Spoke"

This 1865 photograph shows the terrain over which the successful Union assault was made. Note the stumps where trees were removed to open a field of fire for the Confederate gunners. Your present location is in the right center of ...

Confederate Battery 6

This battery fell to the Union forces on June 15, 1864.

Marker is on Petersburg Tour Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Old Post Office - Baltimore

This structure, designed by James A. Wetmore and completed in 1932, is the second post office to occupy this site. Erected at a cost of $3.3 million, the neo-classical building, with its marble halls and paneled court-rooms, contained the most ...

The Rev. Thomas Barton

Memorial Stone to

The Rev. Thomas Barton

1730 – 1780

British Missionary who served for 19 years with distinction as third rector of St. James Church 1759-1778. True to his ordination vows, he remained loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution. Political ...

Hebron Baptist Church

Hebron Baptist Church, originally a Primitive Baptist Church in the Ocmulgee Circuit, later a Missionary Baptist Church, was built on 5 acres of land deeded by William Cleveland on December 23, 1812, to Isaac Morgan, Deacon, “for and in consideration ...

Latham's Battery

This tablet marks the location of the gun house of

Latham's Battery.

Organized May 28th, 1860. Left Lynchburg on the 23rd of April, 1861 and was mustered into the service of the C.S.A. on the 25th of April, 1861 with 95 men ...

Admiral Guillermo Brown

In honor to the abiding memory of

The father of the Argentine Navy

Admiral Guillermo Brown

On the banks of the Delaware where he started his maritime career.

"Brave in combat, magnanimous in victory and audacious in his decisions"

Born in 1777 in Foxford, Ireland. ...

Southern Pacific Bay Window Caboose

This Caboose was used by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Train crews lived in the caboose as the train traveled across the country. The bay window style allowed the crew to watch the train for any problems while riding. This caboose ...

Bordley Corner

Building built in 1883 by Thomas S. Bordley as a two-story men’s haberdashery. Gutted by fire in 1910. Rebuilt in 1911. Owned and operated as a men’s store by Carl and Ruth Bordley 1922-1950. Now rented by the Bordley family.

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The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

Half a mile north from here was fought

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

between the Whigs and Tories, June 20, 1780.

Colonel Francis Locke

Commanded the Whig Army

Marker is at the intersection of Court Square and North Aspen Street, on the left when traveling ...