La Montagne Boarding House

ca. 1890

Originally built as a private home, the house was remodeled in 1904 to serve as a boarding house for PG&E employees. It was later purchased by William Clampett and Jane Huxham in the 1920s. During the 1940s, boat restoration ...

The Great Baltimore Fire

On Sunday morning, February 7, 1904, a spark ignited blankets and cotton goods in the firm of John E. Hurst and Company, which stood between Hopkins Place and Liberty on the south side of German (now Redwood) Street. Flames leapt ...

Hull of the Packet Boat Marshall

Famous canal boat

of the

James River and Kanawha Company,

which conveyed the body of

Stonewall Jackson

from Lynchburg to Lexington,

May 13, 1863

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Riverside Street and Rivermont Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

A Splendid Field of Battle

Union commanders chose an ideal location to fight their last battle of the Seven Days. As many as 40 cannon covered the one-half-mile front, stretching from the slopes of Crew’s Run on your left to a similar drop to Western ...

Packet Boat Marshall

Bringing Stonewall Jackson Home

After Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died on May 10, 1863 as a result of wounds suffered a week earlier at the Battle of Chancellorsville, his body was transported first to Richmond for public mourning and then ...

James Dobbin McNeill

President Emeritus

North Carolina State Firemen's Association

Born in Asheboro, N.C. March 4, 1850

Died in Fayetteville, N.C. February 9, 1927

A beloved citizen and courageous statesman

Six times Mayor of Fayetteville

Thrice President of the National Firemen's Association

Re-organizer of the Fayetteville Fire Department

and for 40 ...

Baltimore Riot Trail

"Keep back ... or I Shoot"

Baltimore - A House Divided

On April 19, 1861, Confederate sympathizers attacked the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as it changed trains en route to Washington, which the secessionists hoped to isolate. To learn more ...

The Water Towers in Buchanan Park

Near this site stood two water towers that for approximately seventy years were part of Lancaster’s skyline. In the early twentieth century the Conestoga River was the sole source of public water in the city. As the west end grew, ...

Old Fort Brooke Municipal Parking Structure

1982

On this site was located the first cemetery for Fort Brooke, a U.S. military post dating from 1824 to 1882. Seminole Indians, soldiers and civilian settlers buried here were excavated by archaeologists in 1980 prior to construction of the parking ...

Abraham de Peyster

Abraham dePeyster

Alderman of the City of New York 1685; Mayor of that City, 1691-95.

Member of Earl Bellomont’s Council, 1698, Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court, 1698.

Colonel Commanding, Regiment of Militia of City Trained Bands 1700

Chief Justice, 1700, President of the ...