Artery of Commerce

Sailing ships and the rivers they travelled were vital to the tidewater plantations of Virginia and Maryland. They were the colonial counterpart to our vehicles, highways, and railroads.

In front of you is Popes Creek; beyond is the Potomac River. Every ...

Forest Glen Estates Historic District

Youngstown's earliest automobile suburb, Forest Glen Estates was developed in the 1920s during a period of change in urban transportation patterns and rapid expansion in the regional steel economy. A composite of design work by leading northeastern Ohio landscape and ...

On a tree south of this spot

British Corporal John Fisher, 28th. Regiment

who had deserted the British to join the Rebels

was caught, tried and convicted. He was hung

at 10 AM June 22, 1778

Marker is on Columbus Road (County Route 543) 0.3 miles east of Petticoat Bridge Road, ...

United Negro College Fund

Dr. Frederick D. Patterson founded the United Negro College Fund in 1944. He and the presidents of the member colleges of the Fund began meeting in 1946 at Holly Knoll, the retirement home of the late Robert Russa Moton. Patterson ...

The Top of the Smokies

Clingmans Dome

At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest mountain in Great Smokey Mountains National Park and is one of the highest peaks in the eastern United States.

An observation tower at the summit takes you above the treetops for a ...

149th New York Infantry

3rd Brigade - 2nd Division

(Front):149th New York Infantry

3rd Brigade - 2nd Division

12th Corps(Caption under Bas Relief):

Flag was planted in works. Shot down and mended under fire.

(Back):

5 p.m. July 1, 1863, occupied position near Little Round Top. 4 a.m. July 2d. ...

Fort George

Ie Fort George

Constructed by order of Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe 1796-99, Fort George served as the headquarters for Major-General Brock in 1812. In May, 1813, it was bombarded and captured by the Americans who constructed fortifications of their own on the ...

Sierra County Sheriff’s Gallows

Sierra County Sheriff's GallowsOn November 27, 1885, 20 year-old James O’Neill was hanged from this gallows for the August 7, 1884 murder of Webber Lake dairyman John Woodward. That execution, conducted by Sheriff Samuel C. Stewart, approximately 100 feet west ...

132nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

(Front):

Antietam

132nd Pennsylvania

Volunteer Infantry

1 Brigade 3 Division 2 Corps

September 17, 1862

(Back):

Casualties

at Antietam

Killed 30

Wounded 114

Missing 3

Total 152

Battles Participated in

Antietam MD.

Sept. 17, 1862

Fredericksburg VA.

Dec. 13, 1862

Chancellorsvile VA.

Apr. 30. May 3, 1863

Recruited in Montour

Wyoming Bradford

Columbia Carbon and

Luzerne Counties

Marker is on Richardson Avenue, on the ...

122nd New York Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):122nd. N.Y. Inf'y.

6th Army Corps.(On the other facing of the "cap"):1st Brigade

3rd Division

(Back):Assisted in

repulsing the attack

on the morning of

July 3, 1863,

Loss

Killed 10;

Wounded 34.

(Right):Organized

Onondaga Co.

New York,

Mustered into service

at Syracuse, N.Y.

August 28, 1863,

Service continuously

with the

Sixth Corps

until the close

of the ...