Salt River Before the Dam

The Salt River begins high in the White Mountains as runoff from melting snow, finding its way into streams and creeks that eventually form the White and Black rivers. The confluence of the two rivers marks the beginning of the ...

John Bricker

In memory of

John Bricker

a private in Captain Mosley Baker’s

company, who was killed just

across the river from this site

April 7th 1836 by a shot from a

Mexican cannon, and was buried

where he fell. He was born in

Cumberland County, Penn.

January 30th 1791

This tablet ...

Tampa Salutes MacDill AFB

A Look at Over 60 Years of Growth and Change

On January 14, 1941, Col. Clarence Tinker landed a twin-engined B-18 Bomber on the first MacDill Field runway and a new era for Tampa was born. Soon after, the U.S. would ...

Princeton Battle Monument

Here memory lingers to recall the guiding mind whose daring plan outflanked the foe and turned dismay to hope when Washington, with swift resolve, marched through the night to fight at dawn and venture all in one victorious battle for ...

South Berkeley Bank

Wells Fargo Bank, South Berkeley Branch

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1982

In the early 20th century, this was one of two banks anchoring the busy Lorin business district’s streetcar intersection. The building remained a bank until the 1980s. Its architecture combines ...

Pontoon Bridge Site

Federals crossed here on

Pontoon Bridge,

Dec 12-13, 1862

Marker is on Sophia Street near Hawke Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fredericksburg Campaign

December 11, 1862. The peacetime bridges having been destroyed, engineers of Burnside’s Federal Army began laying pontoons across the Rappahannock. Here, overlooking the upper pontoon site, Confederates of Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade, sheltered in houses and cellars along this street, stopped ...

Aftermath of Battle

Hospitals and Graves

After the cavalry engagement here on June 29, 1863, Westminster’s citizens cared for dozens of wounded of both sides. Besides the human toll, shattered and broken cannons, gun carriages, and caissons lined both sides of Court Street to ...

Southern Park Stables

Southern Park Stables, at 126 Washington Boulevard in Boardman, was the private training stable of Attorney David Arrel and was built circa 1912 to house his standardbred horses racing at Southern Park Trotting Track one block south. The Stables is ...

The Botetourt Artillery

1861-1865

(East Face)

In Commemoration of the deeds and services of the Buchanan Company. Organized Oct. 1859, as the Mountain Rifles Virginia Volunteers. Enlisted May 1861, in the Confederate States Army, for twelve months, as Co. 1-H-28 Regiment Virginia Infantry. Reenlisted Nov. ...