Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and Arista Cotton Mill

Known also as the Fries Mill Complex, the former Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and Arista Cotton Mill is the oldest physical reminder of the textile industry in Winston-Salem. Completed in 1836, the Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company was organized and built ...

First Battle of Winchester

May 25, 1862 between Confederates under Brig. Gen. T.J. “Stonewall” Jackson and the Federals under Maj. Gen. N.P. Banks began just south of this site. The Federals were driven in retreat through Winchester’s streets with loss of stores and many ...

Neshanic Reformed Church

Organized 1752.

The construction of this Edifice was begun in 1759 and completed in 1772.

Marker is at the intersection of Amwell Road and River Road, on the right when traveling west on Amwell Road.

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Sailors Fighting Sailors

U.S. Chesapeake Flotilla vs. Royal Navy

Sailors provided the backbone of Baltimore’s defense during the War of 1812. A strong detachment of U.S. Navy seamen defended trenches on the outskirts of the city while members of the U.S. Chesapeake Flotilla ...

Mansker’s First Fort

Here on west bank of the creek that he discovered in 1772, Kasper Mansker and other first settlers built a log fort in 1779. John Donelson’s family fled here in 1780 for safety from Indians. Mansker abandoned the fort in ...

Securing the Future

Bascom Hill Historic District

The Social Security system that became a cornerstone of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was written by University of Wisconsin economist Edwin Witte, who served as an advisor to Roosevelt. Witte drew from deep Wisconsin roots. He ...

First Cedar Point Road

This was one of the first concrete roads built in Ohio. When Cedar Point opened for the 1913 season, it was the access road. The road extended one mile north to the water and six miles west along the lake's ...

War Comes to Fredericksburg

“The General punishes most severely any [soldier] caught in the most trivial act. He says [we must] show the Southern People we will act with true Yankee Hospitality even to the worst treasonable communities.”

—Charles Scriber, 24th New York

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The School of Pharmacy

University of Wisconsin

The School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, which began on this site in 1883, pioneered in America the Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy as a professional degree (first awarded 1895) and the Doctor of Philosophy in pharmaceutical specialties ...

339th Fighter Group

8th Air Force

A Tribute To Those Who Served

503rd • 504th • 505th Fighter Squadrons

and Support Units

Fowlmere, England 1944-1945

264 Combat Missions

680 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed

Dedicated 1991

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