“Lest We Forget That Peace Has a Price”

In memorial to our Marines of the Multi-National Peacekeeping Force, Lebanon – 1983.

West Virginia — Semper Fidelis

Cpl. Mecot Camara, Hinton • Lcpl. Russell Cyzick, Star City • HM2 Marion E. Kees, Martinsburg • Lcpl. David Cosner, Elkins • Cpl. Timothy ...

The Andres Diaz Building

In 1908 John Drew built this cigar factory for Andres Diaz and company of New York. One of the most modern of its day, it produced fine Havana cigars under the labels Terreno, Flor de A. Diaz and La Flor ...

Gen. John Burgoyne

as prisoner of war was

entertained in this house

on night of October 22,

1777 while being taken from

Battle of Saratoga to Boston.

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street (U.S. 9) and Church Street, on the right when traveling south on Broad ...

Kansas Children

In 1988, elementary school children of Kansas submitted to the Kansas Arts Commission drawings they thought would be the best idea for a sculpture to top the Capitol dome. Sunflowers, eagles, meadowlarks, farmers, cottonwood trees, wheat shocks, and Native Americans ...

Battle of Petersburg

25 April 1781

To the west stood East Hill (Bollingbrook), home of the widow Mary Marshall Tabb Bolling. After the 25 Apr. 1781 Battle of Petersburg, British Maj. Gen. William Phillips and Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold located their headquarters at the ...

Skirmish at Dinkins' Mill

(Front text)

Following the battle of Boykin’s Mill on April 18, 1865, Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter advanced south to Middleton’s Depot, on the Wilmington & Manchester R.R. below Stateburg. Here, on April 19, they attacked ...

Clark's Corner

On September 17, 1740, Thomas Clark received a

Proprieary Warrant from Thomas Penn for lands

“adjoining his dwellin place” which he named

“Clark’s Folly.” By the 1790’s Benjamin Clark

and his son Matthew had established an inn and

tavern on ...

Grace Episcopal Church

The third home of Grace Church, a brick Gothic Revival-style building, stood on this site from 1859 to 1960. The congregation was founded in 1841 by Dr. Churchhill Jones Gibson, rector until 1892. In 1928 a majority of the members, ...

The 16th & 23d Corps March to Decatur

July 19, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., having camped on N. Fork Peachtree Cr., moved S. on old Shallowford Rd. to this point where it joined Schofield's 23d, which had marched S.E. from Goodwin's Crossing (Brookhaven), along roads now designated Briarwood ...

The Governor's Plaque

This life-sized sculpture depicted the 22-foot Kansas Capitol dome sculpture "Ad Astra" is a gift to the people of Kansas from the Honorable Bill Graves, forty-third governor of Kansas.

It is presented as a proud symbol of our state's heritage, to ...