John Speer Farmstead

Murphy-Bromelsick House

Abolitionist John Speer established a farmstead on this site shortly after his arrival in Kansas Territory in September 1854. A newspaper publisher from Pennsylvania, Speer became a part of the struggle to bring Kansas into the Union as a ...

St. Joseph's Valley Camp

"I did not see it multiplied, but saw it there!"

About 80,000 Union troops settled here in Saint Joseph's Valley as June 1863 drew to a close, "until the grounds around were actually covered with Soldiers." Emmitsburg was placed under martial ...

Colonel John Brown

of Pittsfield, Mass.

killed October 19th, 1780 at Stone Arabia, N.Y. on his thirty-fifth birthday.

Was with Ethan Allen, May 10th, 1775.

Made a gallant attempt to retake the fort

September 17th to 22nd, 1777

but failed owing to ...

James Lafayette

James Lafayette was born in slavery about 1748 near here. His master William Armistead was commissary of military supplies when in the summer of 1781 the Marquis de Lafayette recruited James as a spy. Posing as a double agent, forager, ...

Nuckolls-Jefferies House

[Front]:

This house was built in 1843 for William Thompson Nuckolls (1801-1855) and later owned for many years by John D. Jefferies (1838-1910). Built in the Greek Revival style of the antebellum period and altered in the Neo-Classical style of the ...

John B. White Sr., Blvd.

Dedicated July 1998

Owner and Founder of the World-Famous Beacon Drive-In, from 1946 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. White is truly an extraordinary person and one of Spartanburg's Treasures. His character is beyond reproach, his generosity boundless, and his many ...

Jordan's Point

Weyanoke Indians, part of the Powhatan Chiefdom, occupied Jordan's Point, around two miles north on the James River, when English colonists arrived in 1607. There, about 1620, Samuel Jordan settled; the place was called Jordan's Journey. By 1625, his widow ...

Site of St. Joseph's College

On this site St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first U.S. native to be canonized, founded an academy for girls in 1809. A high school was later added and in 1902 St. Joseph's College was chartered as a three year institution ...

Currituck County Old Jail

Thursday the 31st December 1767

"On motion the following Bills were ordered to be read ... A Bill to impower the justices of Currituck County to build a prison pillary and stocks in the said county on the lot were the ...

Green's Battery - Jones's Battalion

Early's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Early's Division

Jones's Battalion Green's Battery

Louisiana Guard Artillery

Two 10 pounder Parrotts and two 3 inch rifles

July 3 After taking part in the fighting on the previous two days at Gettysburg and Hunterstown ...