Watervliet Shaker Community

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A Shaker village called Watervliet, Ohio, was located here from 1806-1900. The Shakers, originally called the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, were followers of Mother Ann Lee who came from Manchester, England in 1774 and established ...

El Conquistador Water Tower

Constructed in 1928, the tower is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated as a Tucson Landmark.

The tower's Spanish colonial revival sheathing was designed by Tucson architect Roy Place and added in 1932.

In 1994, the ...

High Water Mark

(Viewer's Left Side Page):High Water Mark

of the Rebellion

This Copse of Trees was the Landmark

toward which Longstreet's assault was directed

July 3, 1863.

The Assaulting Column

was comprised of

Kemper's, Garnett's, and Armistead's Brigades of

Pickett's Division,

Archer's, Davis', Pettigrew's & Brockenbrough's Brigades

of Heth's Division

and Scales' and ...

The High Water Mark

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"Too bad! Too bad! On! Too bad!"

General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.

Commander, Army of Northern Virginia

"Thank God."

Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, U.S.A.

Commander, Army of the Potomac

Speaking of the Confederates who had executed Pickett's Charge, General Lee ...

High Water Mark Walking Tour

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"Every foot of ground was occupied by men engaged in mortal combat...."

Maj. Edmund Rice, U.S.A.

19th Massachusetts Infantry

The green trail to your left leads to the scene of the climax of Pickett's Charge, the decisive action ...

Battle of Falling Waters

Crockett-Porterfield House

On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under Gen. Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Col. Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens, four miles north of town, to ...

Battle of Falling Waters

Stuart’s Surprise

Here at Stumpy’s Hollow on the morning of July 2, 1861, Confederate Lt. Col. J.E.B. Stuart captured a Union infantry company almost single-handedly. The Federals – Co. I, 15th Pennsylvania Volunteers – were acting as skirmishers in advance of ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Water Does the Work!

A powerful man-made jet of water blasted the mountainside…

…washing soil and loose rock downslope to fill in the trestle.

By 1911, the Milwaukee Road filled twenty-two temporary wooden trestles between St. Regis, Montana and Avery, Idaho. On this side of the ...

Virginia & Gold Hill Water Company

Comstock Historical Marker No. 14

Following the discovery of silver and gold, the miners obtained their water from the small streams or from the springs located in the canyons such as Ophir Ravine, in Virginis City, and Bullion and Crown ...

Site of Tidewater Institute

(1907 - 1935)

Tidewater Institute was incorporated in 1903 with the stated purpose of establishing an industrial, academic, collegiate, and seminary boarding school for the education of black youth. Founded by the Rev. George E. Reid, and supported by the Northampton/Accomack ...