Spotsylvania Campaign

May 12, 1864. Burnside's IX Corps, having swung east in its march from the Wilderness, engaged the Confederates by way of the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania Road and held the Federal left in this area. On the morning of May 12 Burnside was ...

Titanic Memorial Lighthouse

This lighthouse is a memorial to the passengers, officers and crew who died as heroes when the steamship Titanic sank after collision with an iceberg.

LATITUDE 41°46' NORTH

LONGITUDE 50°14' WEST

APRIL 15, 1912

This lighthouse was originally erected by public subscription. In 1913 ...

Port Penn Schoolhouse

Symbol of the Community

Left Panel

State Stewardship: Linking People, Culture and Environment

After operating the museum for fifteen years, the Port Penn Area Historical Society transferred the schoolhouse museum to the Division of Parks and Recreation in 1991. It now serves as ...

Tomb Of An Unknown Soldier

On the highest mountain top to the southeast is the grave of an unknown soldier. The mountain top was used as a signal station by both armies, 1861-1865.

Marker is on Valley Pike (U.S. 11) 0.2 miles north of Water Plant ...

Old Indian Trail

Erected By The

Jeremiah Jones Chapter

Daughters Of The

American Revolution

North S.C.

Emblem:

Daughters of the American Revolution

Old Indian Trail,

near the old homestead

of Jeremiah Jones

Ninety Six Road.

1770 —— 1922

Marker is on Ninety ...

Capture of Front Royal

Stonewall Jackson, Moving against Banks, captured this town from a Union force under Colonel Kenly, May 23, 1862.

Marker is on Main Street east of Royal Avenue (U.S. 340), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Courthouse

Queen Anne’s County

Oldest courthouse in continuous use in the State of Maryland. The building was authorized by Acts of Assemby after the removal of the County Seat from Queenstown to Chester Mills, later Centreville. It was erected between 1791 and ...

Pittsburgh

Gateway to the West and steel center of the world. Named for William Pitt by Gen. Forbes after the fall of French Fort Duquesne in 1758. Laid out as a town by John Campbell in 1764. Incorporated as a city, ...

Yorktown

The “old town” which you enter here is ringed by stout Civil War entrenchments built on top of the British works of 1781. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welchmen, Hessians, and Loyalist Americans were quartered here while besieged by American-French forces under Washington.

Marker ...

World's First Regularly Scheduled Commercial Airline

Within a decade after the famous Wright Brothers' 1903 flight, aviation history was being made in Florida. The first transcontinental flight landed at Jacksonville in 1912, a naval air training center opened at Pensacola in 1913, and the St. Petersburg-Tampa ...