First Colored Baptist Church

The oldest black Baptist church in the city, the fellowship grew from the slave membership of the First Baptist Church of Austin. In 1854 the committee on religious conditions of the colored population recommended to the churches of the Austin ...

These Five-Inch Brass Trophy Guns

These five-inch brass trophy guns were captured from the Spanish Arsenal at Cavete, in the Phillipine Islands on May 1, 1898, following the defeat of the Spanish Squadron in Manila Bay by the United States Navy. Admiral Dewey, the hero ...

Site of Pecan Springs School

In community where scalping and dramatic rescue of Josiah Wilbarger occurred in 1833. By 1875 area had developed so much that a schoolhouse was built at this site. Original 30 x 40 – foot structure was set on 4.68 acres ...

Confederate Memorial

Shiloh's Confederate Monument combines symbolism with beauty to commemorate the story of Southern "Lost Cause" in the fields and woods near Shiloh Church. Its prominent location marks a Confederate high water mark. Here, on April 6, 1862, Confederates encircled and ...

14th Wisconsin Infantry

Unassigned

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

14th Wisconsin Infantry,

- Unassigned -

This Regiment, attached temporarily to the 14th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, was engaged here from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. April 7, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of Eastern Corinth Road and ...

Washington’s Route from Princeton

By this route

Washington

with his army

retired after his victory at Princeton

January, 1777.

Erected by

Camp Middlebrook Chapter

D.A.R.

Marker is on Finderne Avenue (County Route 533), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

13th Arkansas Infantry

Stewart's Brigade - Clark's Division - Polk's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

13th Arkansas Infantry,

Stewart's (2d) Brig., Clark's (1st) Div.,

Polk's Corps.

This Regiment was engaged here, Monday April 7, 1862 until about 1 p.m.

Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the left when traveling ...

Servicemen's Free Canteen

The Lima Chapter of the American Women's Voluntary Services Organization established a community-based, free canteen during World War II for troops traveling on the Pennsylvania Railroad and adjacent Baltimore & Ohio-Nickel Plate Railroads. Meeting as many as forty trains a ...

Battery F, Pennsylvania Light Artillery

Hampton's Battery

(Front):F. Penna. Light Artillery

Organized at Pittsburgh

Hampton's Battery

(Right): From June 3 1863 to March 25 1864 Batteries F and C served as a consolidated battery.

July 2, occupied this position from about 5 to 6 o'clock p.m. July 3, with ...

Native Americans Exchange Furs for European Goods

The lifestyle of the Lenape changed forever upon contact with Europeans. One source of change was the European appetite for furs in making robes, coats, hats and gloves. Dutch, Swedish and English explorers and traders exchanged items of metal, glass ...