Fort Darling

Defences of Drewry's Bluff

Eastward 150 yards was the Confederate Fort Darling which constituted, with the works at Chaffin’s Bluff across the James, the main defence of the approaches to Richmond by water. Often the target of Federal fire, Fort Darling ...

The Half-Way House

The house that stood here, midway between Richmond and Petersburg, was a landmark in the campaign of 1864. East and Southeast were Batteries Brooks, Semmes, Wood and Dantzler which defended the South side of James river from Drewry’s Bluff to ...

Home of the Miss America Pageant

Atlantic City Convention Center

"Home of the Miss America Pageant"

Presented to

The Miss American Pageant

in commemoration and deep appreciation

of their love affair with Atlantic City

for the past six decades

Dedicated January 21, 1987

by

the Atlantic City Convention Center Authority

and the citizens of Greater Atlantic ...

Savannah: Colonial Capital and Birthplace of

Representative Government in Georgia

In March 1750, the Georgia Trustees in London resolved to allow colonists to elect a representative assembly to meet in Savannah, Georgia's colonial capitol. Sixteen delegates met on January 15,1751, for a twenty-four day session. Representative government ...

Drewry’s Bluff Battlefield

On a line that here crossed the Richmond–Petersburg turnpike, Confederate troops under command of General G.T. Beauregard attacked the Federal army of Major-General B.F. Butler on May 16, 1864 and forced its withdrawal to the Bermuda Hundred defences.

Marker is on ...

Drewry’s Bluff Defences

Here, on the second line of the Drewry’s Bluff defences, Confederate troops were concentrated May 12-15, 1864, to take the offensive against a Federal force that had advanced from Bermuda Hundred under command of General B.F. Butler and had cut ...

Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps,

Brig. Gen. Geo. S. Greene, Commanding,

(September 17, 1862.)

Tyndale's and Stainrook's Brigades of Greene's Division formed line about 8 a.m., a short distance beyond the East Woods and, advancing to their eastern edge, struck the right of ...

Osage Chieftain

The Osage Indians thought so much of the French Explorer, Pierre Chouteau, as a fur trader, that on March 19, 1792 they gave him land along the Lamine River including what is now Blackwater township, Pilot Grove township and of ...

First Masonic Hall

Across the alley stood the first Masonic Hall in the state, designed by architect Hugh Roland in 1818. Marquis de la Fayette was entertained there in 1825 by Past Grand Master Andrew Jackson. The 17th General Assembly of Tennessee met ...

Chester Confederate Monument

[South Side]

This monument guards the memory

of the men of Chester District

who obeying the call of their state

died for the Confederate cause.

1861-1865

Time may crumble this marble into dust

but time can not dim their glory.