A Target for Big Guns

In 1918, the United States War Department established the Dahlgren Proving Grounds in King George County, Virginia. Military leaders who had observed the death and destruction of World War I wanted more accurate and effective large guns for future wars. ...

Feeder Gates

Lock, dam and toll house of Genesee Valley Canal located approximately one hundred feet east

Operated 1840 to 1878

Marker is at the intersection of Rochester Street (New York Route 251) and Main Street (New York Route 383), on the left when ...

I.O.O.F. Building

Believed to be the oldest surviving commercial building in the city, this structure was built in 1874 by the Robert Hall Lumber Company.

It has served as the headquarters for the Odd Fellows, as a bank and various other professional ...

"...one of the pleasantest summer resorts on the Potomac"

Tourism thrived on the island after Dr. Joseph McWilliams built a steamboat wharf in 1868. Dr. McWilliams enlarged his home to make room for a growing number of summer visitors from Baltimore and Washington. he also added cottages, a dining ...

Murder of Ambrose Meadows

Pendleton County Civil War Landmark

At this site on May 10th, 1862, following the battle of Mcdowell, union soldiers murdered Rev. Abrose Meadows. A mill and the Meadows home were burned, his wife and three children left homeless.

Marker is on U.S. ...

Land Ordinance of 1785 / The Seven Ranges

Side A:Land Ordinance of 1785In April 1784, the Continental Congress adopted the Report of Government for the Western Territory, a broad plan drafted primarily by Thomas Jefferson for organizing the United States' new western lands that were ceded by the ...

Harford County Sheriff's Office

Dedicated to those who serve

Courage Honor and Integrity in the Pursuit of Justice

In Memoriam

Frank Bateman

06-10-1899

DFC William H. Beebe

11-28-2006

Marker can be reached from Norrisville Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Headquarters

During February 17-19, 1865, General P.G.T. Beauregard, with Wade Hampton's cavalry acting as rear guard, made his headquarters here, telegraphing General R.E. Lee in Virginia news of the evacuation of Columbia, 20 miles south, before retiring to Winnsboro. Following and ...

Fort Seybert

Fort Seybert, strong frontier post with blockhouse, cabins, and stockade, surrendered to the Indians after three-day siege in 1758. Twenty of the prisoners were massacred and the others were carried into captivity. (Site 2 Mi. North)

Marker is at the intersection ...

Confederate High Tide

You are standing at the Morris farm, where part of the Union XX Corps arrived late in the afternoon on March 19,1865, to stop the main Confederate assault, which had crushed Carlin’s division of the XIV Corps at the Cole ...