Twin Mounds & Parallel Walls

These circular twin mounds were excavated in the late 1800s and contained no human remains. Two shallow ditches extend from these earth mounds. One ditch connects to Randall Run on the north side of Fort Ancient, while the other ...

The Pony Express Trail

1860 -1861

The first Pony Express trip between St. Joseph and San Francisco was 1943 miles. This first trip took 10 days. The Pony Express operated from April 3, 1860 to November 20, 1861. The trail was located 1100 feet North ...

Gen. Henry Knox Trail

At this place

General Henry Knox

delivered to

General George Washington

in January 1776

the train of artillery

brought from

Fort Ticonderoga

to force the enemy to

evacuate Boston

Erected by the Commonwealth

of Massachusetts 1927

Marker is at the intersection of Garden Street and Mason Street, on the right when traveling ...

Old State Fair Grounds

This square is part of the tract where state fairs were held 1856-61, 1869-1903. The buildings, used 1861-65 for Confederate barracks and hospital, as well as nitre and mining bureau in charge of Joseph LeConte and James Woodrow, were burned ...

Original Site of Winthrop College

In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later Winthrop College, was started here in a small brick building which had been the chapel of Columbia Theological Seminary. In ...

Reverend Horatio S. Howell

Chaplain

In Memoriam.

Rev. Horation S. Howell

Chaplain.

90th Penn'a Vols,

was cruelly shot

dead on these

church steps on

the afternoon of

July 1st 1863.

"He delivereth me

from mine enemies;

Yea, thou liftest me

up above those that

rise up against me."

18th Psalms

48th verse.

"He being dead, yet

speaketh"

Hebrews 11, 4th.

Our tribute

Survivors Association

of the ...

Dorchester Heights

National Historic Site

These heights, commanding the harbor and town of Boston on the south, were seized and fortified by troops of the Continental Army and local militia under General John Thomas on the night of March 4, 1776. By this ...

Old Spanish Cemetery (1800-1825)

This courthouse stands on ground used as a cemetery after Nacgodoches was rebuilt by settlers ordered out of the area when Spain gave up East Texas outposts in 1773.

Antonio Gil Y'Barbo (1729 - 1809) led the displaced persons who ...

Battle of Corydon

On July 9, 1863, along this wooded ridge - - - from the “Laconta” Road extending across the “Mauckport” Pike to the old “New Amsterdam” Road - - - occurred the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was between ...

Confederate Armory

1861-1864

Erected on land donated to the state

by Vardry McBee for the manufacture

of arms for the South Carolina troops

in the Confederate service.

George W. Morse, superintendent

of the works, invented and manufactured

a breech-loading carbine pronounced

by General Wade Hampton the best

that he had seen.

Marker ...