General Winfield Scott Hancock

(Left):General

Winfield Scott

Hancock

(Right):Born February 14, 1824.

Died February 9, 1886.

Marker is at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue NW and 7th Street NW, on the right when traveling west on Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

Courtesy hmdb.org

“The Steelworker in Pittsburg”

Dedicated September 10, 1995

Gone are the days when steelworkers in the rolling mill toiled in extreme heat, catching red-hot steel rods equipped only with a pair of tongs, cotton gloves and leather shin guards. Today’s steelworker is a pace setter ...

Parson's Battery

4th U.S. Artillery Co. "H" & "M"

The most powerful federal battery on this field armed with four 3" Ordnance rifles and four 12 pdr. howitzers. This battery of battle hardened regulars poured charge after charge of canister at less than ...

The Surrender Tree

This tree commemorates a great elm tree under which it is said that British General John Burgoyne signed the “Convention of Saratoga” by which he surrendered his forces to American General Horatio Gates, October 17, 1777.

Considered to be the turning ...

Alexander Graham Bell

From the to floor of this building

was sent on June 3, 1880

over a beam of light to 1325 L Street,

the first wireless telephone message

in the history of the world.

The apparatus used in sending the message

The Trail of Death

In 1838 a band of over 800 Potawatomi Indians were forcibly removed from their homeland in Northern Indiana and marched to Eastern Kansas. Many died along the trail during the two month trek. This mournful caravan traveled this road on ...

Caught in a Crossfire

Hard pressed on every side, Ferguson's men fell back to their camp, which lay in the saddle of the ridge you see just ahead. As some Tories tried to surrender, bullets continued to pour into their ranks from all directions. ...

In Memory of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

1833 - 1883

“...upon occasion of the prevalence of the yellow fever...Samuel A. Mudd devoted himself to the care and cure of the sick and interposed his courage and skill to protect the garrison...from peril and alarm, and thus...saved many ...

Flat Rock

On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of

Flat Rock

Identified with the Flat Rock Church and School that existed in the early 20th century, Flat Rock has African American roots that ...

Alfred Goldsboro Mayor

Alfred Goldsboro Mayor, who studied the biology of many seas and here founded a laboratory for research for the Carnegie Institution directing it for XVIII years with conspicuous success, brilliant versatile courageous utterly forgetful of self. He was the beloved ...