Elkton Bridge

A Strategic Crossing

The Elk River crossing here on the Columbia, Pulaski, Elkton, and Alabama Turnpike (earlier called the Bumpass Trail) was the narrowest part that could be bridged between Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Florence, Alabama. During the Civil War, a wooden ...

Bicentennial Augusta, Ga

1735 — 1935

(East face)

Bicentennial

Augusta, Ga

1735 — 1935

(West face)

Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe,

Founder - 1735

Gen. "Light-Horse" Harry Lee

Revolutionary soldier, Commander - 1781

Gen. Robert Edward Lee,

Confederate soldier

and Commander - in - Chief ...

Municipal Ferry Building - Maritime Museum

Municipal Ferry Building – 1941

linked San Pedro and

Terminal Island

Maritime Museum since 1979

Declared

Historio-Cultural Monument No. 146

by the

Cultural Heritage Commission

Cultural Affairs Department

City of Los Angeles

Marker is at the intersection of Sampson ...

Brevard College

Methodist. Opened 1934 on campus of Brevard Institute after merger of Rutherford College (est. 1853) and Weaver College (est. 1873).

Marker is on Asheville Hwy (U.S. 276).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Chancellorsville

Hooker reached this point, April 30, 1863; Next day he entrenched, with his left wing on the river and his right wing on this road several miles west. That wing was surprised by Jackson and driven back here, May 2. ...

Bethania Freedman's Community

The community established along this road in the Bethania Town Lot was built by African-American men and women who began acquiring land here following the Civil War. Many of these people had been enslaved on the Oak Grove plantation, from ...

Bryan Grimes

1828–1880

Major General, Confederate Army. His service spanned the Peninsula Campaign to Appomattox. Family plantation called “Grimesland,” was here.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 33 and Grimes Farm Road (County Road 1569), on the left when traveling west on ...

Wisconsin's First 4-H Club

The Linn Junior Farmers Club was the first 4-H Club organized in Wisconsin. Mrs. May Hatch, local community leader, and Thomas L. Bewick, newly appointed State Boys and Girls Club Leader at the University of Wisconsin, organized the club here ...

The Battle of Salem Church

This ridge top now brimming with traffic and commerce once witnessed the clash of armies. On May 3, 1863, 10,000 Confederate troops took position astride the Orange Plank Road (modern Va. Route 3). That afternoon, 20,000 Union soldiers under General ...

Battle of Salem Church

May 3, 1863

Brooks – Newton

vs

Wilcox – Semmes

Mahone

Marker is at the intersection of Salem Church Road and Plank Road (Virginia Route 3) on Salem Church Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org