This "Precious Dust"

When the Battle of Stones River ended on January 2, 1863, over 3,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lay dead. Most were buried in hastily prepared graves on the battlefield. In October 1865 soldiers from the 111th United States Colored Infantry ...

First Avenue Honor Roll

First Avenue

Honor Roll

Dedicated to the Men of The

United States Armed Forces

Who Gave Their Lives In

World War II, So That

Democracy Might Live

Joseph J. Bosta

Thomas A. Kishel

George A. Mascola

Pacifico A. Migliore Jr.

John B. Murray

Parker L. Smith

Francis W. Snyder

William F. Weiler

Dedicated April 30, ...

Roxbury

Charles City County, Virginia

Roxbury was named for a nearby plantation in New Kent County and reached by Longbridge over the Chickahominy. This community was the site of a colonial era tavern and the only railroad station in Charles City County ...

Sherwood Forest

President John Tyler's Home

John Tyler purchased this plantation one mile west in his native Charles City in 1842 while serving as tenth president of the United States, and made it his home from 1845 until his death in 1862. Tyler ...

Margaret Fry

This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Margaret Fry, an early pioneer woman. Margaret was born March 27, 1802 and moved to the Dayton area in 1824 or 1825. She was first married to Levi Dickson, who died June ...

Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente

1939 – 1973

The test of mankind's progress

is not whether we add more to

the abundance of those who

have much; it is whether we

provide enough for those

who have too little.

By: the 200,000 Spanish citizens

of Conn. through the efforts of

station WLVH – ...

Wheeler's Cav. Intrenched

July 20, 1864. Wheeler’s thin gray line of dismounted cavalry (CS) was the rt. Flank of Atlanta’s defenders. Forced W. from Clay St. in the afternoon by Blair’s 17th A.C., (US) Wheeler’s line ran S. from the Ga. R.R. to ...

Point of Fork

Four miles southeast is Point of Fork, near which an Indian village stood in 1607. In the Revolution a state arsenal was there. In June, 1781, Simcoe, sent by Cornwallis with a small force to destroy the stores there, succeeded ...

Restoring the Line

July 22, 1864. After Cheatham’s troops (CS) broke the Federal 15th A.C. line at the R.R. cut and the Hurt house (DeGress Ave.), Mersy’s 16th A.C. brigade was brought up from the battlefield 1 mile S. of the R.R. to ...

Stones River National Cemetery

Established June 23, 1865

Union dead from this battlefield and Middle Tennessee are buried here. Of the more than 6,100 Union burials, 2,562 are known but to God. Men and women who gave their lives in other wars or who have ...