27th Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):July 1, 1863. The Regiment moved with

the Brigade in the afternoon to N.E.

side of Gettysburg where it became actively

engaged covering the retreat of the

Corps. It then withdrew to this position

where after dark of the 2nd it assisted

in ...

Captain L.D. Bradley

(1831 - 1886)

Came to Texas from Alabama in 1855. Civil War commanded Co.B, 2nd Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion. On May 22, 1863, was a leader of one of most daring defensive actions in the Siege of Vicksburg. Volunteered, along with ...

Missionary Ridge Historic District

Missionary Ridge

Historic District

Has been placed on the

National Register

Of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Listed September 5, 1996

Marker is at the intersection of South Crest Road and Rosemont Drive, on the right when traveling south on South Crest Road. ...

Federal Crossings

Opposition by Confederate forces to Federal crossings of Peachtree Cr., were more formidable westward than eastward, because of high, wooded ridges on the south bank. Two days of severe conflict were required by the 14th Corps [US] to effect lodgments ...

Court Street Baptist Church

The congregation was organized in 1843,

when Lynchburg’s African American Baptists

were separated from First Baptist Church.

The new African Baptist Church of Lynchburg met in a converted theater. It was demolished in 1879, after the deaths of eight people during a panic ...

Cross Swamp Methodist Church

[Front]:

Cross Swamp Methodist Church, the first Methodist congregation in upper Colleton County, was founded in 1808. James and Asia Sineath deeded an acre on this site to church trustees in April and the first sanctuary, which was a log pole ...

Finishing Fort Drewry

Immediately after the battle, men of Chesterfield County’s own Southside Artillery, along with others, worked to strengthen the fort. The section before you was likely their first project. Eventually the earthworks around you formed an enclosed fort, armed with as ...

Ootsa Lake Nechako Reservoir

In 1952, the Kenney Dam was constructed on the Nechako River to service the new Alcan aluminum smelter at Kitimat, resulting in the creation of the Nechako Reservoir and the relocation of over 75 families. The damming also linked the ...

The Geographic Center

In a park three miles north and one mile west is the exact geographic center of the 48 contiguous states. The location has been officially established by the U.S. Geological Survey. It is the point where a plane map of ...

The Sunken Road

For 130 years, this was a road like thousands of others. First called the County Road, then Telegraph Road, it carried farmer's wagons into Fredericksburg or townsfolk to visit relatives in the country. During the 1830s an adjacent landowner built ...