Pioneering Bacterial Genetics

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Geneticist Joshua Lederberg was the first University of Wisconsin faculty member to receive the Nobel Prize. His discovery of conjugation in bacterial cells was a milestone in biology and ushered in the new field of ...

Replica 6.4 inch Brooke Rifled Canon

Confederate Naval Canon from the CSS Albemarle

The Brooke Rifle is named after its developer, Commander John Mercer Brooke (CSA), who served as Chief, Dept. of Ordnance and Hydrography. While closely resembling the popular Parrott Gun used by the Union, the ...

Bowser Family Cemetery

This marker recognizes the final resting place of Spencer Bowser, the patriarch of a prominent African American family in North Carolina. Also buried here are several other members of the Bowser family, including J.P. Bowser, Lloyd B. Bowser, Q.B. Bowser, ...

The Glebe of Fairfax Parish

The glebe was a 500-acre farm provided for the rector of Fairfax Parish, which included both Christ Church, Alexandria, and the Falls Church. The Glebe House, built in 1775, stood here. It burned in 1808 and was rebuilt in 1820, ...

Attleborough's Tribute

"To The Memory of the boys who defended our Union"

Marker is on Dennis Street, on the left when traveling north.

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85th Redoubt

Union fort built by the 85th New York Regiment. It was taken on April 18, 1864, in one of the heaviest assaults of the siege.

Marker is at the intersection of Wilson Street and Campbell Street, on the right when traveling ...

Rehoboth Church

Colonial Anglican congregation known as Skinners Chapel. Present church constructed 1850-1853. Now United Methodist.

Marker is on North Carolina Route 32 0.1 miles west of Mallard Cove, on the left when traveling west.

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Marion Bayard Folsom

Marion Folsom, business leader and civil servant, was born on this site on November 23, 1893. In 1914 he joined the Eastman Kodak Company where he helped design one of the nation's first company sponsored retirement insurance plans. Appointed by ...

Buncombe Hall

The home of Col. Edward Buncombe of the Continental Line, who was captured at Germantown and died a prisoner in 1778, stood one mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of Buncombe Avenue (North Carolina Route 32) and Cross Road, on ...

British Invasion

A British force under Admiral Cockburn occupied Portsmouth and Ocracoke, July 12-16, 1813. S.E. 30 miles across Pamlico Sound.

Marker is at the intersection of TG Sonny Boy Joyner Highway (North Carolina Route 45) and Creekside Road, on the right when ...