Campaign of Second Manassas
Lee and Longstreet, moving eastward to join Jackson at Man...
John A. Wilson
Born July 25, 1832, near Worthington, Ohio, John Alf Wilso...
St. John The Baptist Catholic Church
Erected 1845, tower and bell added 1888-1900
The fir...
Delaware City School No. 118C
In 1919 Delaware radically altered its state school system...
New Priorities of Protection
Rock walls communicate that a place is important an...
Thoroughfare Gap
Just west is Thoroughfare Gap where Union and Confederate ...
Newport News POW Camp
Where Valor Proudly Sleeps
The monument that stands ...
Capt. Philo McGiffin
Born Dec. 13, 1860, on this site. Graduate U.S. Naval Acad...
Sportsman’s Hall
This was the site of Sportsman’s Hall, also known as Twelv...
Greenwood
John Greenwood, a trapper and guide who came to California...
Campaign of Second Manassas
Lee and Longstreet, moving eastward to join Jackson at Manassas, found this gap held by a Union force, August 28, 1862. They forced the gap, after some fighting, and moved on toward Manassas, August 29, 1862.
Marker is at the intersection ...
John A. Wilson
Born July 25, 1832, near Worthington, Ohio, John Alf Wilson lived at this site. At the age of 29, he enlisted in C. Company, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry under General O.M. Mitchell. General Mitchell consented to a dangerous mission led ...
St. John The Baptist Catholic Church
Erected 1845, tower and bell added 1888-1900
The first meeting of Catholics in Tuscaloosa was held in 1819. The first parochial school was opened in 1863. St. Paul’s Church, Birmingham, dedicated 1872, and churches in Selma, Blocton and Reform began as ...
Delaware City School No. 118C
In 1919 Delaware radically altered its state school system, opening a new era in the education of African-American youth. Progress was stimulated by the efforts of the Delaware School Auxiliary Association and its primary supporter, P.S. duPont, who conducted a ...
New Priorities of Protection
Rock walls communicate that a place is important and worth of protection -- a sanctuary. In the 1940s, Civilian conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees were using the boulders scattered before you to erect a rock wall guarding Lake Greenwood State Park.
Following ...
Thoroughfare Gap
Just west is Thoroughfare Gap where Union and Confederate armies clashed during Civil War. In July 1861, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston marched eastward through the gap to join Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard in the First Battle of Manassas. Maj. Gen. ...
Newport News POW Camp
Where Valor Proudly Sleeps
The monument that stands before you was erected in June 1900 by the members of the Magruder Camp No. 36, United Confederate Veterans, to honor the 163 Confederate soldiers reinterred at this site who had died in ...
Capt. Philo McGiffin
Born Dec. 13, 1860, on this site. Graduate U.S. Naval Academy. Went to China in 1885, built up and trained its Navy. Sept. 17, 1894, it fought the Japanese to a draw in a naval battle at Yalu River. McGiffin ...
Sportsman’s Hall
This was the site of Sportsman’s Hall, also known as Twelve-Mile House. The hotel operated in the late 1850’s and 1860’s by John and James Blair, a stopping place for stages and teams of the comstock. It became a relay ...
Greenwood
John Greenwood, a trapper and guide who came to California in 1844, established a here a trading post in 1849. The mining town of Greenwood, which developed during the Gold Rush, boasted a theater, 4 hotels, 14 stores, a brewery, ...