The Burial Ground

Three generations of George Washington’s forebears are buried here. The first burials were made in 1668, when John Washington’s wife Anne and two small children died. During the next thirty years, at least nine more Washingtons—including George Washington’s grandparents—were interred ...

Birthplace of Woodrow Wilson

U.S. President 1913–21

One mile north, on Coalter Street in Staunton, is the birthplace of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 8th Virginia-born President of the U.S., Princeton University President, New Jersey Governor, 28th President (World War I). He was chief author and ...

Main Cable

Main Cable

1906 - 1980

George Washington Bridge 1827 - 1931

Golden Gate Bridge 1933 - 1937

Fabricated by John A. Roebling & Sons

Marker is at the intersection of Hornberger Avenue and Sixth Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Hornberger Avenue. ...

Rainbow Tower & Hilton Lagoon

The legendary surfer Duke Kahanamoku often strolled the sands of Waik?k? Beach fronting what is now Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, 1959.

In ancient times, the coastal plain where you now stand was known as K?lia. Water from ...

American Tobacco Co. Warehouses

1899 - 1901

These two buildings are the most substantial warehouses built in Madison to house the processing of leaf tobacco. From the Civil War until the 1940s, leaf tobacco was among Dane County's most lucrative crops. The tobacco grown in ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

Confederate Line of Defense at St. James Church

Several hundred yards behind you, in the copse of trees, is the site of the St. James Church. Union soldiers tore down the small brick structure for materials to make their quarters during ...

First Baptist Church, Cowpens

Fourteen members met in the depot of the Atlanta & Charlotte Railroad on Aug. 13, 1878 to organize this church. The original one room frame building was erected on this site in 1879.

The second building made of hand-pressed brick in ...

Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Warehouse

1907, Claude and Starck, Architects

1915 Addition, Law and Law, Architects

The Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Co., founded in 1894 by T.E. Wiedenbeck and C.W. Dobelin, provided blacksmithing and wagon making supplies to local industry. This warehouse represents an important era of early industrial development, ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

Charging the Confederate Guns

By 7 a.m. on June 9, Brig. Gen. John Buford had his Union troops in position. Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames Federal brigade of infantry straddled the Beverly Ford Road. To Ames' left (where the airport is now) ...

Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Cumberland Gap

Cumberland Gap

Side A:

Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, with a party of Expedition veterans and a Mandan Indian delegation, went through Cumberland Gap in Nov. 1806 en route to Washington to report on the expedition. (Over)

Side B:

Cumberland ...