DelMonico's Building

This Renaissance Revival style building, designed by the architect James Brown Lord in 1891, is the only surviving structure associated with Delmonico's, the legendary dining establishment. Founded in 1827, it was one of the first restaurants in the United States ...

Leesburg Passenger Station

When the Alexandria, Loudoun, & Hampshire Railroad (later W&OD) arrived on May 17, 1860, Leesburg realized a dream. A local newspaper praised the railroad, which “throws us within an hour or two’s ride of the cities of the seaboard, and ...

The First A&W Root Beer

On this site

One hot day in June of 1919

Roy Allen

served the

first frosty

mug of

creamy

A&W Root Beer

in Lodi, California

Dedicated to the City of Lodi, this 14th day of July, 2001

Marker is ...

Old Bluff Church

The Muddy Road to Averasboro

(Preface):

The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savanna, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ...

Brooklyn

A 20,000-Mile Religous Exodus by Ship

On February 4, 1846, the ship Brooklyn sailed from Manhattan's Old Slip. Chartered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the ship carried men, women, and children to California as part of the ...

Leesburg Freight Station

Leesburg’s first railroad depot opened here in 1860 to accommodate passengers, mail, express packages, and freight. All but the freight operations were moved west to King Street in 1887 when the new passenger station opened. An industrial area known as ...

The Leesburg Lime Company

The arrival of the railroad in the 1860s spawned new businesses. One such enterprise was the Leesburg Lime Company, which operated at the site where you are now located. In 1868 a local newspaper announced:

New Lime Kiln— Messrs. Orr ...

Grandy's Battery - Garnett's Battalion

Heth's Division - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Heth's Division

Garnett's Battalion Grandy's Battery

The Norfolk Light Artillery Blues

Two 3 inch Rifles, Two 12 pounder Howitzers

July 1 Arrived on the field in the afternoon but was not engaged.

July 2 The Rifles ...

First Baptist Church

This Victorian Gothic church was constructed in 1887-88 as the second home of the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA. In 1906-07, it was rededicated as the ENOCH D. UNDERWOOD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH to honor Enoch D. Underwood, pastor from 1849 ...

Neabsco Mills Ironworks

The Neabsco Mills Ironworks complex, under the ownership of three generations of the Tayloe family, of Richmond County, operated between 1737 and 1828. Located near this site, it was one of the longest continually operating ironworks in present-day Northern Virginia. ...