The Home of Governor Augustus W. Bradford

The home of Governor Augustus W. Bradford, which stood on this site was burned July 11, 1864 by Confederate Troops “to retaliate the burning of Governor Letcher’s Home” in Virginia by Federal troops. This was the closest point to Baltimore ...

Battle of Gully Hole Creek

During the late morning of July 7, 1742 Georgia Rangers guarding the military road approach to the town of Frederica sighted a force of over 100 Spanish soldiers and their Indian allies. James Edward

Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, quickly organized a ...

Hic A Sha Ba Ha Spring

Methodist circuit rider Jacob Matthews conducted this area's first Methodist worship service near this site in 1834. The first meeting, held in a grove of sweet gum trees next to a spring known by the Choctaw Indians as Hicashabaha, led ...

Benita Fitzgerald Drive

Named in honor of Benita Fitzgerald,

Olympic Gold Medalist – 100 Meter Hurdles,

XXIII Olympiad – 1984 •

Pan American Games Champion – 1983 •

U.S. National Champion – 1983 and 1986.

Benita was born in Warrenton, Virginia on July 6, 1961 and attended Prince ...

Thorstein Veblen

(1857 – 1929)

One of Wisconsin's most controversial figures, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, was born near here July 30, 1857. In 1865 the Veblen family moved to Minnesota where Thorstein graduated from college in 1880. He was a deep thinker, usually lonely ...

Abel Kolb's Murder / Welsh Neck Cemetery

Marker Front:

Colonel Abel Kolb was a prominent Revolutionary War Patriot of this area. A band of Tory raiders, on the night of April 27-28, 1781, surrounded the home of Colonel Kolb and his family. He was shot while surrendering himself ...

410th Bombardment Group (L)

9th Air Force • World War II

Headquarters

644th, 645th, 646th, 647th

Bombardment Squadrons

Douglas A-20 Havoc

and Support Units

In Honor of the 410th Airmen who so bravely served their country

[Dedicated] 27 September 1991

Courtesy hmdb.org

Monterey Bay Aquarium / Hovden Cannery

There was a cannery here before the aquarium

The Monterey Bay Aquarium stands on the site of the old Hovden Cannery. In its heyday, the cannery processed tons of sardines every day. But by the 1960s the sardines had disappeared, and ...

"I … imagined them to be British Troops, but found my mistake by

During the night of the attack, Captain Francis Tew was stationed near the abatis with four companies of the 17th Regiment, part of the total British garrison of 564 men. On this spot, a small defensive position called flech #2 ...

Dr. Benjamin James Sanders, Jr.

1899-1990

The first born son and seventh child of Benjamin and Elsie Goodman Sanders was born in Allendale, S.C. near Appleton in Barnwell County. The son of a farmer with no school in his community, he attended a one-room one-teacher school ...