Minden's First Homesite

This site marks the end of the Virginia and Truckee rail extension from Carson City which was completed in 1906. A depot was built here as well as first home site for the station manager, Herb Coffin. Mr. Coffin’s home ...

The History of the City of Sandy Springs, Georgia

Sandy Springs, Georgia, the unincorporated community just north of Atlanta, began a 30-year campaign for incorporation when the City of Atlanta tried to annex the area in the 1970s. The Committee for Sandy Springs formed in 1975 to incorporate Sandy ...

Fort Severn and the United States Naval Academy

Fort Severn Chapter

National Society

Daughters of the American Revolution

honors

Fort Severn

and the

United States Naval Academy.

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"Locating Fort Severn within the U.S. Naval Academy, March 28, 1977."

Marker can be reached from Cooper Road 0.1 miles south of Santee Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Centennial Field

Named to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the University of Vermont’s first graduating class, Centennial Field has been the home of UVM athletics since 1906. The three ballparks that have stood on this site have hosted semi-professional and minor league, ...

Old Broom Factory Building

Erected in 1876. Victorian-style building has ashlar-cut limestone front with stepped parapet and keystone arches. During prosperous railroad era, housed Round Rock Broom Company (1887?-1912), an important local business. (Broom made here won a gold medal at St. Louis World's ...

The Great Seal of the State of California

The Great Seal of the State of California

designed by

Major Robert Selden Garnett,

U.S. Army,

and adopted by the Constitutional

Convention of 1849 at Monterey.

Commissioned a Brigadier General

in the Confederate States Army

He was killed in West Virginia in 1861, the first general officer to ...

Naval Battle of Roanoke Island

During late January, 1862, a Federal land-sea expedition assembled at Hatteras Inlet to take Roanoke Island and capture control of the North Carolina Sound region. This force was under the joint command of General Ambrose Burnside and navy Flag-Officer Louis ...

First Presbyterian Church

Many early settlers of Morgan County were of Scot-Irish heritage and brought the Presbyterian faith with them. From this group Reverend John Hunt and twelve charter members organized the first congregation in McConnelsville and Malta in 1824 and third oldest ...

Lee’s First Victory: At a Huge Cost

“Yesterday evening we was in one of the hardest fought battles ever known. I never had a clear conception of the horrors of war until last night….In going round that battlefield with a candle searching for friends I could hear ...

Final Stand

Civil War artillery was a splendid defensive weapon, particularly when the battlefield landscape offered the gunners open fields of fire. At Gaines’ Mill the woods plagued the Union artillery. Several gaps in the trees however, offered a direct line of ...