Birds Landing - Benjamin's Store

In 1869 John Bird constructed a wharf and warehouse on Montezuma Slough. Soon, one mile east of the wharf, a community began to evolve. A blacksmith shop came first, and then the store was built in 1875. In this year ...

Karrick-Parks House / Harberson's Station

(obverse)

Karrick-Parks House

Bivouac for Confederate troops on Oct. 7, 1862, night before Battle of Perryville. Karricks ordered to vacate home the next day. Day after the battle they returned to survey damage, found little done. Officers, doctors lived in house for ...

Baltimore County Courthouse

Separation of Baltimore City and County effective July 4, 1851. Towsontown was chosen as County Seat by popular vote February 13, 1854. The Courthouse of local limestone and marble was completed in 1855 at a cost of $30,000. Enlarged in ...

Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour” / Welcome to Minnesota

Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour.” In the years between 1835 and 1860, steamboats from St. Louis and the Illinois river towns of Rock Island and Galena carried hundreds of tourists up the Mississippi River past “a thousand bluffs which tower in countless ...

Cecil Herbert Land D.D.

Son of

Annie Black and Edward H. Lang

Born

Temple, Texas March 18, 1891

Died

Columbia, SC July 9, 1974

Minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S over

fifty years.

Chaplain in World War I and II.

First Chaplain in the Presbyterian Church U.S.

to attain the rank of Colonel U.S. ...

Baltimore County Courthouse

Separation of Baltimore City and County effective July 4, 1851. Towsontown was chosen as County Seat by popular vote February 13, 1854. The Courthouse of local limestone and marble was completed in 1855 at a cost of $30,000. Enlarged in ...

Bexley World War II Memorial

Bexley will ever remember her men and women who served in the Armed Forces of the U.S.A. during the Second World War

Names of Bexley's World War II veterans are engraved around the monument.

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street ...

Scott's Quarry

Marble from this quarry, located nearby, was used to build the Washington Monument in Baltimore. Designed by architect Robert Mills and erected between 1815 and 1829, this was the first public monument erected to George Washington. The construction contract specified ...

Central Virginia Training Center

Established in 1910 as the Virginia State

Epileptic Colony, the center admitted its first

patients in May 1911. The facility originally

served persons with epilepsy and began

accepting individuals with mental retardation

in 1913. Due to the new national emphasis in

the mid-1950s on mental retardation, ...

Fort Look-Out

During the War of 1812, a circular 180° earthen artillery redoubt was erected as a defense for Fort McHenry. On September 13, 1814, Lt. George Budd commanded naval forces that assisted in repulsing a nighttime British attack on the Ferry ...