The Orangeburg Massacre

On February 8, 1968, after three nights of escalating

racial tension over efforts by S.C. State College

students and others to desegregate the All Star

Bowling Lanes, 3 students died and 27 others were

wounded on this campus. S.C. Highway Patrolmen

fired on a crowd ...

13th Massachusetts Volunteers

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):13th

Mass. Vols.

(Back):13th Mass. Vol's

1st Brig - 2nd Div - 1st Corps

July 1st 1863

Marker is on Robinson Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Sacred Lake

Lake Tahoe is sacred to the Wa-she-shu or Washoe people.

Each spring family groups gathered at Da-ow-‘ah-ga or Lake Tahoe’s shore and offered blessings. Countless generations of children were taught by each family’s leader that their responsibilities included attitudes of respect, ...

12th Massachusetts Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):12th

Mass. Vols.

2nd Brig. 2nd Div. 1st Corps.

(Back):Erected by

survivors of the

Regiment

aided by its friends

and the

State of Massachusetts

1885.

(Back Facets):Webster 61

Bates 64

(Left): July 1, 1863.

(Right): Webster Reg't

Marker is at the intersection of Doubleday Avenue and Robinson Avenue, on the right ...

Hackensack War Memorial

Erected in 1924 by the people of Hackensack in Memory of its soldiers and sailors who fought in the wars of the United States of America.

[Four panels around the monument's base depict different American wars]

Marker is on Court Street, on ...

Mission San Francisco Solano Sacred Ground

In this sacred grounds lie buried men, women and children of the local Coast Miwok, Patwin, Wappo and Pomo Tribes. They built, labored and died at Mission San Francisco Solano.

[A list of names of Native Americans buried here follows the ...

Sand Creek Massacre

The controversy surrounding this Civil War Monument has become a symbol of Coloradens' struggle to understand and take responsibility for our past. On November 29, 1864, Colorado's First and Third Cavalry, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, attacked Chief Black Kettle's ...

Site of Eames Massacre

Here stood the home of

Thomas Eames,

burned by the Indians in

King Philip’s War Feb. 1, 1676.

His wife and five children

were slain and four carried

into captivity.

—

This memorial

is placed by his descendants

A.D. 1900

Marker is on Chatauqua Avenue when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Logan Massacre

One of the events which led up to Dunmore's War was the killing at this point of the family of Chief Logan, eloquent leader of the Mingo Indians, April, 1774, opposite their village at the mouth of Yellow Creek in ...

35th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The Thirty-fifth Regiment

of

Massachusetts Volunteers

Crossed this bridge with Ferrero's

Brigade, Ninth Army Corps

at noon, Sept. 17, 1862, and

moved to the right up the hill

where, at the lane, two hundred

and fourteen of their officers

and men were killed or wounded.

Gloria est Pro Patria Mori

Erected ...