"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 ...

Toms Brook

Sunday, October 9th

Sunday, October 9th

During the evening of October 8, 1864, Gen. Lunsford L. Lomax reached this position with two brigades of Confederate cavalry commanded by Gen. Bradley T. Johnson and Col. William L. "Mudwall" Jackson. Gen. Wesley Merritt, in ...

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 ...

Port Republic

Port Republic Battlefield Civil War Site—Trail Stop 1. Last Battle of Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign.

You are standing on the “Coaling.” By the Civil War this area was nearly devoid of trees, the timber having been used for the production of ...

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 ...

Vietnam War Memorial - - Dearborn County Lawrenceburg Indiana

In Memory of our Vietnam Veterans Killed in Action

Vietnam War 1959 - 1975

Dedicated July 4, 2000

Lary Dale Fogle • U.S. Army PFC - - Killed in Action December 20, 1965 - Saigon, South Vietnam

Thomas George Denning • U.S.M.C. ...

Switchboard Room / Plotting Room

Switchboard Room

A central Switchboard room is where all the important communications emanated. By means of this switchboard, all base lines were made interchangeable. A distribution switchboard was installed in a switchboard room as a standard part of the armaments ...