14th New Jersey Infantry Regiment

(Upper Plaque):Erected by the State of

New Jersey to commemorate the

heroic services of the 14th Regiment

New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps

Army of the Potomac, at the

Battle of Monocacy, MD

July 9th 1864.

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The ...

The Landing of Cadillac

After departing Montreal June 5, 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his convoy of 25 canoes sailed down this river and on the evening of July 23 camped 16 miles below the present city of Detroit on what is ...

The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal

Ferry Houses: Connecting People, Boats and Trains

From 1864 until 1967: the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal provided a vital link between the New Jersey and New York City shores. At its busiest, more than 200 ferry sailings ...

Formerly The Texas School Book Depository Building

This site was originally owned by John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. During the 1880s French native Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop here. In 1894 the land was purchased by Phil L. Mitchell, President and Director of Rock ...

Encounter at Halfway Swamp / Site of Original St. Mark's Church

Encounter at Halfway Swamp

On December 12, 1780, according to tradition, British Maj. Robert McLeroth was surprised near here by Gen. Francis Marion. The British first agreed to a staged combat with twenty men on each side, but slipped away ...

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Breech Mechanism & Gun Factory

lower panel, above doorway

National Museum of the United States Navy

upper panel

Breech Mechanism & Gun Shop

Extended 297 Feet, 1899

Rear Admiral Charles O’Neil,

Chief of Bureau of Ordnance

Comdr. E. C. Pendleton, ...

9th Kentucky Infantry

Boyle's Brigade - Crittenden's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

9th Kentucky Infantry,

Boyle's (11th) Brigade,

Crittenden's (5th) Division.

This regiment was engaged here at 10:30 a.m. April 7, 1862. It advanced 500 yards, was driven back to this place, and after several movements advanced again ...

Bristol Persian Gulf War Monument

August 7, 1994

This plaque is in recognition

of all the men and women

from Bristol and Forestville

who served their country

with pride during the

Persian Gulf War, Operation

Desert Storm.

Marker is on Memorial Boulevard 0.2 miles east of East Street, on the right when traveling ...

Wall Street of the Rockies

Four Corners

The four corners of 17th and Champa Streets are occupied by the Boston Building (1890), the Colorado National Bank (1915), the Railway Exchange (Title) Building (1937), and the Ideal Cement (Colorado Federal) Building (1907). All were built of Colorado ...

Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled

Before the 19th-century social reform movement, developmentally disabled people were relegated to almshouses and county poor farms where the “indigent, insane, epileptic and “idiotic” were housed together without regard to individual condition. Reformists advocated more humane treatment of the socially-dependent ...