The Battle of Hanging Rock

A Union Retreat Disrupted

On June 21, 1864, following two days of fighting at Lynchburg, Confederate Gen. Robert Ransom’s cavalry, pursuing Union Gen. David Hunter’s retreating column, engaged in a conflict that would ultimately become known as the Battle of Hanging ...

Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi and International Expositi

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody held the first official performance of his Wild West show just half a mile northeast of here on May 19, 1883. Eight thousand people attended the premiere at the Omaha Driving Park near Eighteenth and ...

Joseph Buffet

Killed near this spot

in 1781 trying to regain

his cattle & sheep from a

British raiding party re-

turning to Huntington.

Marker is on Fort Salonga Road (New York Route 25A), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Van Metre Ford Bridge

Named for the property owners this stone bridge built in 1832 across Opequon Creek was major improvement for travellers on Warm Springs Road connecting Alexandria and Bath, Va., site of famous mineral waters. The Berkeley County Court established a commission ...

To honor our Confederate Soldiers

(Front):

1861 C.S.A. 1865

Erected by Southern Cross Chapter

U.D.C.

May 30, 1935

(Front):

Unmarked Graves

These men of the 17th Virginia Cavalry died during the 1863 and 1864 "winter camps" in the Salem area.

Their bodies may lie here in unmarked graves.

Charles A. Abbott, Co. A • ...

First Capitol of Kansas

This building was erected in 1855 in the now extinct town of Pawnee for the first legislature of the territory of Kansas. The members were mostly Missourians, fraudulently elected in an effort to make Kansas a slave state. They came ...

Rose of Aberlone

Michigan Legal Milestone

T.C. Sherwood, president of Plymouth National Bank, contracted in 1886 with Hiram Walker of Walkerville, Ontario for the purchase of a cow, Rose 2d of Aberlone. Both parties believed that Rose was barren and would not breed, ...

Frederick C. Franck, Jr., Residence

1179 Washington Street

Built in 1905 by Frederick C. Franck, Jr. (1873-1954). Santa Clara town trustee, businessman and son of Senator F.C. Franck. The Franck family owned this entire block. Maude Shuld Franck (1878-1960) his wife lived her until her death.

The ...

The Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor is the highest decoration for bravery awarded to members of the armed forces of the United States. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, only for a deed of supreme valor and ...

First Presbyterian Churchyard

This tablet is dedicated to the memory of those men who served in the American Revolution

1775 – 1783

and who were buried in the

First Presbyterian Churchyard

Trenton, N.J.

James Francis Armstrong •

John Beatty •

Nicholas de Belleville ...