"4-in. 40 caliber rifles"

These two guns, originally known as breech-loading rifles, are trained in a southerly direction, to either side of the flagpole.

Gun on East side, registry no. 21, manufactured in 1896 here at the Navy Yard mounted on USS PURITAN ...

Battle of Port Republic

The cross road here roughgly divides the Confederate and Union lines in the battle of JUne 9, 1862. Jackson attacked Shields, coming southward to join Fremont, but was repulsed. Reinforced by Ewell, Jackson attacked again and drove Shields from the ...

Fort Popham: Guardian of the Kennebec

Fort Popham is a Third System style granite fort built by the U.S. War Department beginning in 1862. Modifications were made and the fort was used again in the Spanish American War and in World War 1. Another fort, probably ...

Fort Popham State Historic Site

Since construction commenced in 1861, the entrance to the Kennebec River has been guarded by Fort Popham, a Civil War era fort that was built to protect the shipbuilding interests in the upriver City of Bath, as well as the ...

The Mule Falters

As the railroad streaked westward from Harpers Ferry, the C&O Canal fell hopelessly behind in the race for Ohio.

Burdened by a lack of building supplies and a scarcity of skilled labor, the canal encountered serious financial problems and did not ...

Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale

This memorial plaque placed in memory of

Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale

First Superintendent of Indian

Affairs in California appointed

by President Millard Fillmore

Sanctioned by the United States

government the Tejon Indian Reservation

was established in 1853 by Beale for

the welfare and protection of the

Indians in this ...

Site of the Blacksmith Shop (1897, 1913)

The blacksmith shop was the first building constructed by Percy & Small after they purchased the old Blaisdell shipyard site from William Donnell in 1896. It was furnished with forges, bellows, and anvils for fabricating large quantities of ironwork for ...

Birthplace of Johns Hopkins

Founder of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Born May 19, 1795. Died December 24, 1873.

Marker is at the intersection of Reidel Road and Johns Hopkins Road, on the left when traveling south on Reidel Road.

Courtesy ...

Founder of Johnstown

(Sir William Johnson)

In efforts to develop great land holdings, he surveyed and laid out the village of Johnstown, built the first public school, and after Tryon County was set off in 1772, ensured the location of the county seat ...

Site of the First Public School in Castro Valley

This site was part of the original Don Castro Land Grant. In 1866 pioneer settler Josiah Grover Brickell made a land grant of this site for “educational purposes only” and paid the teacher’s salary, who taught children by day, in ...