River Pumps

In 1895 pumps were installed at the confluence of the Yuba and Feather Rivers to protect the City of Marysville from the danger of flooding.

These pumps with a capacity to pump 18,265 gallons per minute, helped to keep Marysville dry ...

Martha Washington's Birthplace

About two miles northeast stood Chestnut Grove, the plantation home of John and Frances Jones Dandridge, where Martha Dandridge, the eldest of eight children, was born on 2 June 1731. She lived there until 15 May 1750, when she married ...

Colonel John Brown

of Pittsfield, Mass.

killed October 19th, 1780 at Stone Arabia, N.Y. on his thirty-fifth birthday.

Was with Ethan Allen, May 10th, 1775.

Made a gallant attempt to retake the fort

September 17th to 22nd, 1777

but failed owing to ...

103rd Engineers

28th Division

(Front):In memory

of the

103rd

Engineers

1917 - 1919

(Back):103rd Engineers

28th Division

Major engagements

in World War I

Champagne - Marne

Aisne - Marne

Meuse - Argonne

Oise - Aisne

Defensive Sector

Marker is on Boal Avenue (U.S. 322) just north of Boalsburg Pike, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Daughters of Charity

"O, it was beyond description"

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton founded the Roman Catholic community of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's here in 1809 (after 1850, called Daughters of Charity). The sisters played a prominent role during the Civil War ...

Silver Spring in the Civil War

On July 11-12, 1864, General Jubal Early's 20,000 Confederate troops marched down Georgia Avenue (formerly Seventh Street Turnpike), in their attack on Fort Stevens in the District of Columbia (1). Francis Preston Blair's vacant home (2) "Silver Spring" (currently the ...

The South Battery

Governors Island

The South Battery, or Half-Moon Battery, was erected prior to the War of 1812, in concert with the construction of Castle Williams. A battery is a fortification equipped with artillery. This arrow-shaped fortification was built into the hillside ...

Coshocton Train Wreck

109th Field Artillery

(Lower Plaque)In loving memory of the 33 men

of the 109th Field Artillery

killed in the train wreck

Sept. 11, 1950 in Coshocton, Ohio

(Upper Plaque Listing Names):

Capt. Arthur J. Thomas

Warrant Officers

Wm. M. Wellington - James F. McGinley

Sergeants

Lester J. Kuehn

Bernard S. Okrasinski

Gilbert ...

New Kent Courthouse

Lord Cornwallis's army was here, moving eastward, June 22, 1781; Lafayette, in pursuit, June 25; Washington, Rochambeau and Chastellux, on their way to Yorktown, September 14, 1781. A part of Joseph E. Johnston's army, retiring to Richmond, passed through, May, ...

F & AM - Antioch-Brentwood Lodge #175 Building

This plaque commemorates 140 continuous years of Masonry in Antioch and the 100th anniversary of this building. The building was constructed as the Belshaw Theater in 1905. It was purchased by the Antioch Masonic Lodge in 1923 and modified to ...