Political Meeting at Second Baptist Church

In 1870, African American men in Circleville attempted to vote in municipal elections. Despite the recent ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, pollsters refused their votes on the basis that state law forbade them from receiving the ballots. The Second Baptist ...

Biltmore Forest School

Founded September 1, 1898

This tablet, marking the site

of the school building, is erected

in honor of

Dr. C.A. Schenck

founder of the

Biltmore Forest School,

the first school of forestry

in the United States

The Alumni - 1950

Marker can be reached from U.S. 276 ½ mile south ...

First Brigade

First Division - Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps First Division

First Brigade

Col. Archibald L. McDougall

5th. 20th. Connecticut, 3d. Maryland

123d. 145th. New York, 46th. Penna. Infantry

July 1 Marched from Littlestown and when within two miles of Gettysburg advanced on Wolf Hill ...

Battle of Averasboro

Union Route to Bentonville

(Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ...

Fort Steuben

In 1787, the construction of Fort Steuben was completed by Captain John Francis Hamtramck and soldiers of the 1st American Regiment, who were sent to the frontier by the United States government to remove illegal squatters and protect government surveyors ...

Richard M. Brewer

One of the most colorful incidents in the violent history of the American West during the late 1800s, the Lincoln County War in New Mexico involved a Boaz man named Richard M. Brewer. Born February 19, 1850, "Dick" Brewer came ...

General George B. McClellan

Rich Mountain Battlefield

General McClellan marched three brigades of Federal troops into position along nearby Roaring Creek. He ordered a strong scouting party up this road to test the Camp Garnett defenses on July 10, 1861. Withering infantry and artillery fire ...

Camp Boardwalk

In commemoration of Atlantic City’s finest hour ... Dedicated to the thousands of men and women of the United States Armed Forces who trained, served and recovered here from their wounds of battle during World War II—and to the devoted ...

Tampa as Port of Embarkation for Spanish American War

From April to June, 1898, Tampa served as port of embarkation for U.S. troops on their way to Cuba. Some 30,000 troops arrived in Tampa and 16,000 embarked from Port Tampa on June 7. The Tampa Bay Hotel was headquarters ...

Beta Pi Chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity

On this site, 277 W. Louther Street, from 1932 to 1963 lived the Brothers of Beta Pi Chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

Presented by the chapter's Alumni Association on

June 7, 2003

in honor of the chapter's 100th Anniversary

at Dickinson College, 1902-2002.

Marker is ...