Between Morning and Midnight

Maryland Fire Rescue Services Memorial Sculpture

The firefighter and EMS provider are ascending the staircase of time as they depart from this world. they are running to their calling to do the job of serving our community with strenght, determination and ...

Longhorn Cavern Administration Building

Longhorn Cavern opened as a state park in 1932. From 1934 to 1942, Company 854 of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked here to explore and develop the cavern. Using hand labor and native materials, the CCC workers built this ...

The Federal Rally Turns the Tide

Many of my Regiment got within 60 yards of the enemy guns, but were compelled to give back for want of support. It seemed the Commanders expected our Brigade and the Texas Brigade that fought beside us to rout thee ...

Westover

In 1619 the first settlement was made at Westover, about 2 miles southeast. Two settlers died in the Powhatan uprising of 1622. Theodorick Bland bought Westover in 1666; William Byrd I acquired it in 1688. About 1730 his son, Colonel ...

General Lee's Headquarters

Three blocks north and a half a block west is the Beasley House where General Robert E. Lee had his second headquarters in 1864 during the siege of Petersburg. He moved thence to Edge Hill to be in closer touch ...

Hornitos

“Little Ovens of the Mother Lode”

Historic Jail Museum • History of 1849 • Relics

Gold Rush Day Displays

One of the Nations Most Famous Ghost Towns early population 15,000. Here was the first Wells Fargo Express Office in county. $40000 in gold ...

Berkeley Plantation or Harrison's Landing

A short distance south, it was first settled in 1619, when the first Thanksgiving was held here. The present mansion, built in 1726, was the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and President William Henry Harrison. ...

Pioneer Brigade Earthworks

The trenches before you were built by the Pioneer Brigade of the Union Army of the Cumberland. After the fighting on the first day of the Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862, both armies piled dirt, logs, and stone ...

12th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

(Front):In memory of

the men of the

Twelfth Regiment

New Jersey Infantry

Volunteers,

who fell upon this field

July 2d & 3d 1863,

and who elsewhere

died under the flag

this monument is dedicated

by their surviving comrades

as an example

to future generations.

12th Regt.

N.J. Vol.

(Around the ...

Half-Way Creek

Used in French and Indian

& Revolutionary Wars

for transport of supplies.

Marker is on Lakes to Locks Passage (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org