Walterboro Army Air Field

"We were prisoners, but (we weren't made to) feel like prisoners. We were just people waiting to go back home"

- Helmut Ulbricht, German POW, Walterboro Army Air Field, 1945.The Press and Standard, 1994.

Two Hundred and fifty German prisoners of war ...

House of Alexander Douglass

Here in the house of

Alexander Douglass

Washington

called a council of war

on the evening of

January 2, 1777

when the

flank movement to

Princeton

was decided upon

Marker is at the intersection of South Broad Street and Livingston Street, on the left when traveling north on South Broad ...

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church Built 1924 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on West Main Street west of Walnut Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Goldfield

For a 20-year period prior to 1900 the mining in Nevada fell into a slump that cast the entire state into a bleak depression and caused the loss of a third of the population.

The picture brightened overnight following the spectacular ...

Site of the Redoubt

Site of the redoubt

thrown up here in October, 1776

by American troops

under General Heath to protect

the retreat of

Washington’s Army from New York

to White Plains.

Erected under the auspices of Woodlawn Cemetery and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.

Marker is on Heliotrope ...

The Signing of the Ratification of the Constitution

This tablet commemorates the signing of the ratification of the Constitution of the United States by the thirty-nine commissioners of the State of New Jersey, executed on the site of this bank on the 18th day of December 1787.

The one ...

Old Federal Road

The first vehicular and postal route of Georgia to Rossville was the Federal Road across the Cherokee Nation. Beginning on the southeast Indian boundary in the direction of Athens, Georgia, the thoroughfare led this way toward Nashville via Tate, Jasper, ...

Confederate Obelisk-Chimney

(West side)

This

Obelisk-Chimney,

Sole remnant of the extensive

powder-works here erected

under the auspices of the

Confederate Government.

Is, by the Confederate

Survivors Association

of Augusta, with the consent

of the City Council, conserved

in the honor of a fallen ...

Robert Magaw Defended this Position

To the memory of

a brave and unselfish patriot

Robert Magaw

Colonel Commandant of

Fort Washington

who in his own words

“Actuated by the most glorious cause

that mankind ever fought in”

and specially charged with the duty

by General Washington

defended this position

in the momentous assault

November 16, 1776

Born at ...

Prisoner Of War Camp and Camouflage School

During World War II over 400,000 German and Italian POWs were quartered in camps across the United States. In many cases the prisoners were used to fill vast labor shortages in production and agriculture. Their prisoner camps were small communities ...