Civil War Battle of Baton Rouge

1862

On August 5, 1862, Confederate Divisions of Generals Charles C. Clark and Donald Ruggles under General John C. Breckinridge attacked Federal forces of General Thomas Williams among the tent camps of the 21st Indiana and 7th Vermont Regiments. Williams was ...

First Church of Christ, Scientist

Oconto, Wisconsin

This church was organized June 10, 1886. The first service was held here October 31 of the same year. Seven years earlier Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had founded the Church of Christ, ...

Old Post Office

Beginning in 1926, this vintage 1907 building served as the U.S. Post Office for 36 years. This was one of the many structures built by Cormick E. Boyce, who arrived in 1881 as a freight hauler and became one of ...

Original Site of Lakeside United Methodist Church

1866-1968

Marker Front:

The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church purchased this property in 1866, and the congregation erected a frame building with a brick basement in 1867. The Rev. Howell Echols was the first pastor. In 1886, a brick building, ...

15th Michigan Infantry

Unassigned

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

(15th) Michigan Infantry,

- Unassigned -

This Regiment, attached temporarily to Rousseau's Brigade, Army of the Ohio, was engaged here from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. April 7, 1862.

Marker is on Corinth-Pittsburg Landing ...

Fremont's First City-Owned Parking Lot

Nov. 14, 1964

Dedicated in memory of

George F. Wolz

Marker is at the intersection of Park Avenue and 5th Street, on the left when traveling south on Park Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Flowers Baking Company

Established - 1919

Brothers William Howard Flowers & Joseph Hampton Flowers Jr. opened Flowers Baking Company, the first commercial bakery in Southwest Georgia, on this site on November 4, 1919. The following morning, 500 loaves of "Flowers Quality Bread" were sold ...

"From Stagecoach to Streetcar to Subway: A College Town Emerges"

City of College Park

College Park was incorporated by referendum in 1945. However, the city’s origin goes back much further. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, College Park began to emerge from farmland both as a transportation hub and as ...

"The University of Maryland Is Deeply Rooted in History"

City of College Park

From its pre-Civil War roots as the state’s first agricultural college and one of America’s original land grant institutions, the University of Maryland has emerged as a public research university of national stature, highly regarded for its ...

A Salute to the Boy Scouts of America

From 1929 to 1940 Arthur Brisbane made available this land as the official scout camp for Monmouth County Boy Scouts. Thousands of boys camped here enjoying the natural beauty of the woods while receiving scout training in self-reliance and kindred ...