Stony Point Battlefield Today

In the early 20th century, a number of stone structures were constructed here by the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. After the State purchased the site in 1897, the administration was turned over to the Society and the site ...

Florence "Pancho" Barnes

Florence Leontine Lowe was born July 29, 1901 in Pasadena. Through an arranged marriage in 1921, she became the wife of a minister, Rankin Barnes. She ended her relationship with him a few years after bearing a son, Billy.

Florence acquired ...

Occoquan River Bridges

Occoquan founder Nathaniel Ellicott built the first bridge here c. 1800. The “Great Mail Route” from Washington to the south crossed here. In 1878 an iron Pratt Truss Bridge was erected. This bridge was on the main east coast north-south ...

Birthplace of The San Diego Union

A pioneer newspaper of California

Founded October 10, 1868

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Battle of Upperville

A Swirling Cavalry Fight

(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia went into the Shenandoah Valley, then north through Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania. ...

Captain Brian S. Letendre

Captain Brian S. Letendre

United States Marine Corps

5/13/79 – 5/3/06

1/25 MITT

Al Anbar Province, Iraq

Marker is at the intersection of Sunnyslope Drive and Pendleton Road, on the right when traveling north on Sunnyslope Drive.

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Blue Mountain

Elevation 3,500 ft.

Projection of Staked Plains. Winkler County's highest point.

Lookout and landmark for red men and whites. Indians found here fuel, sheltering caves and water.

Left artifacts and 138 mortar holes for grinding food.

On cave walls bragged of their prowess ...

310th Bombardment Wing (M) (SAC)

1952 - 1965

1952-1954 · B-29 · KC-97

1954-1961 · B-47 · KC-97

1961-1964 · B-47 · KC-97 · Atlas F

1964-1965 · B-47 · KC-135 · Atlas F

379th BS · 380th BS · 381st BS

428th BS · 310th ARERS · 550th SMS

310th HQS ...

460th Bombardment Group (H)

15th Air Force • 55th Wing

Hq • 760th • 761st • 762nd • 763rd

Sqdns and Support Units

Spinazzola, Italy 1944-1945

"Not in Vain"

may be the pride of those

who survived

and the epitaph of those

who fell.

Winston Churchill

Dedicated 28 May 1993

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First Buck Mountain Church

This tablet placed here by the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia in the year 1930, commemorates the founding of the First Buck Mountain Church established under the authority of The Church of England and builded one ...