Site of 21-Mile House

This famous tavern and stage stop was located 21 miles from San Jose on the road to Monterey. The 21-Mile House was built in 1852 by William Host beneath a spreading oak that later was called the Vasquez Tree. The ...

Odd Fellows Hall

Richmond Slave Trail

Established in England in the mid-1700’s, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows began as a philanthropic organization that welcomed both white and black membership. 1813 witnessed a significant rift in the Order’s structure when many of the ...

Acquisition of Quantico Marine Reservation

This marks the site

where in May 1917

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Assistant Secretary of the Navy

and

Major General Commandant George Barnett

cut the first tree symbolizing official

acquisition of the Marine Reservation

Quantico, Virginia.

Marker is at the intersection of Barnett Avenue and Labelle Street, on the right ...

Farmville

Lee’s Retreat

The Confederate army marched through this tobacco town, followed by the Union army. Lee hoped to issue rations to his men here before turning south but was forced to flee across the Appomattox River. Grant sent his first dispatch ...

Water for the Army

In 1898 as Battery Jasper neared completion, work began on these two 30,000 gallon cisterns. Concrete gutters atop Jasper were designed to collect rain water, which was conducted to these holding tanks.

To provide additional water, particularly in times ...

French Market

In 1991 in celebration of the bicentennial of its first market hall, the French Market rededicates itself to the perpetuation and expansion of the traditional market offerings of the bounty of Louisiana - its land, its waters, its cultures ...

Crusading for Right

(north face)

1775 Semper Fidelis 1918

In memory of the Officers and Men of the

6th Machine Gun Battalion

United States Marines

who gave their lives for their Country

in the World War in 1918.

This tablet was erected by

the Thomas Roberts Reath

Marine Post No. 186, ...

9th Illinois Infantry

McArthur's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U. S.

9th Illinois Infantry,

McArthur's (2d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment occupied this position in line of battle from Sunday at 5 p.m. April 6, 1862 to Monday morning when it took ...

Colonels John C. and William F. Upton

Upton County

(Front):

County Named for Texas Confederates

John C. Upton and W. F. Upton (Brothers)

Colonel

John Cunningham Upton

(1828-1862) Born Tennessee. Came to Texas 1859. Raised company outbreak of Civil War. Attached to 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's famed Texas Brigade, fighting in the campaigns ...

First Battle of Kernstown

Was fought here Sunday, March 23, 1862 Confederates under Gen. T.J. “Stonewall” Jackson attacked Federals under Gen. James Shields. The fighting was chiefly west of the road and continued from early afternoon until nightfall. When Jackson retired with—his first and ...