Buttons from the River

The residents of Stevens Point depended on the Wisconsin River not only to transport logs, but also to provide clam shells for the button industry. The clammers found an abundance of quality shells in the river to support a commercial ...

Franklin Hills Cemetery Veterans Section

In honor of the Gold Star Mothers

and all Veterans who

unselfishly served their country

in time of need.

Dedicated July 4, 1979

Marker is on Winchester Southern Road near Elder Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Hanging Rock

About 2.5 miles south is Hanging Rock, where Maj. Davie surprised a British force, Aug. 1, 1780, and killed or wounded most of them. There also, Aug. 6, 1780, Col. Hill, Col. Irwin, and Maj. Davie, all under Gen. Sumter, ...

The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan

Designed by its first Vicar, the Reverend George Stewart, this is the oldest church building in continuous use in Sauk Centre. Construction was begun in the spring of 1869 and completion of the $6700 structure was made possible by a ...

154th New York State Volunteer Infantry

(front):

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Corps

"The Hardtack Regiment"

Anchor of the Buschbeck Line

Near Dowdall's Tavern

Battle of Chancellorsville

May 2, 1863

(back):

590 present for duty

240 killed, wounded, and captured

Dedicated to the memory of the regiment

by its descendants

May 1996

Marker is on Germanna Highway (State ...

Birthplace of Dr. James Marion Sims

About 1¾ miles west of this spot stood the house in which Dr. James Marion Sims was born on January 25, 1813. Father of modern gynecology, Dr. Sims was honored by the American and by European governments for his service ...

Temple of Wings

Bernard Maybeck/A. Randolph Monroe, Architects; 1911

City of Berkeley Landmarks

designated in 1992

In one of Berkeley’s more eccentric experiments in living, Charles and Florence Boynton built their family residence as a version of a Greco-Roman temple with no walls. Two circular, open-air ...

Veterans of the American Revolution Memorial Bridge

A living memorial to and in honor of veterans who are buried in Wisconsin who served this nation in the American Revolution and who, by their efforts, were responsible for the founding of our country.Veterans of the American Revolution

After the ...

Buford's Massacre

May 29, 1780

On this site, Col. Abraham Buford's force of about 350 American patriots, while returning to Hillsborough, N.C., following the fall of Charles Town, were overtaken by British troops commanded by Col. Banastre Tarelton, it is historically told that ...

The Wilderness of Spotsylvania County

The armies fought the Battle of Chancellorsville in the heart of a 70-square-mile region of tangled undergrowth known locally as the Wilderness. This inhospitable terrain added a new dimension of horror to the fighting on May 3. Fires erupted from ...