20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry

A regiment of many heroes including

Tod Carter

Dewitt S. Jobe

William Shy

Thomas B. Smith

Their bravery will never die

Dedicated November 1, 2008

Tennessee Division Sons of Confederate Veterans

Marker can be reached from Confederate Cemetery Road 0.1 miles south of Old U.S. Highway 41.

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Memorial to the "Start Westward of the United States"

Sculpted for Marietta's Sesquicentennial by Gutzon Borglum

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Dedicated July 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a tribute to those farsighted pioneers who journeyed here from New England in 1788 and established Marietta as the first permanent settlement in the Northwest ...

Leonardtown

Spies, Intriguers and Blockade Runners

When the white citizens of St.

Mary’s County voted here in the

1860 presidential election, John

Breckenridge, the secessionist candidate who carried Maryland, got

920 votes. Abraham Lincoln received 9 percent of the popular Maryland vote; the only man known ...

1200 Block East Cary Street

Because of Shockoe Slip’s convenience to both canal and rail transport, many different businesses contributed to its economic make-up. Some of the buildings in this block housed concerns that would be expected in the area, such as a cigar manufacturer ...

Highgrove Hydroelectric Plant

The first commercially significant hydroelectric plant in California, designed and built by Gustavus Olivio Newman, went into service here in 1888. Utilizing the flow of the Riverside Water Company Canal to produce about 225 kilowatts of power used for the ...

Leonardtown

Spies, Intriguers and Blockade Runners

When the white citizens of St.

Mary’s County voted here in the

1860 presidential election, John

Breckenridge, the secessionist candidate who carried Maryland, got

920 votes. Abraham Lincoln received 9 percent of the popular Maryland vote; the only man known ...

Rice Divisional Camp

Camp Rice

Camp Rice was established at this site in the spring of 1942. It was one of twelve such camps built in the southwestern deserts to harden and train United States troops for service on the battlefields of World War ...

This Cannon

This cannon was brought to Maryland in 1634 on The Ark. Used in defense of St. Mary’s City and as a St. Inigoes Manor boundary marker. Presented to St. Mary’s County Historical Society by The Society of Jesus.

(original inscription ...

Soviet Transpolar Landing Site

Three miles west of this site, on July 14, 1937, three Soviet aviators completed a transpolar flight from Moscow in 62 hours, 17 minutes, establishing a new world's nonstop distance record of 6,305 miles. The huge single-engine aircraft, an ANT-25 ...

General John Butler

1770 Sheriff of Orange County

1775 Moore's Creek Campaign

1779 August, GA, Charleston, SCStono Ferry, SC

1780 Camden, SC, Charlotte, NC

Salisbury, NC

1781 Guilford Court House, Lindley's Mill, Elizabethtown near Wilmington

Marker can be reached from Lindley Mill Road.

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