Haigh Ranch

Peñón Blanco Town Site

In 1849 Penon Blanco was a Mexican and Chilean gold mining camp. The foreign miners tax of 1852 caused the camp to be abandoned. In 1855 George Bell and Mary Haigh opened a store in Penon Blanco ...

The Battle of Perryville

The Battle of Perryville was fought on October 8, 1862. It was the climax of a campaign that lasted almost two months and affected the entire state of Kentucky. The campaign started when Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army entered Kentucky ...

Second Brigade

Second Division - Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps Second Brigade

Second Brigade

Col. Orland Smith

33d. Massachusetts 138th. New York

55th. 73. Ohio Infantry

July 1 Arrived 2 p.m. and went into position on Cemetery Hill in line behind stone walls along Emmitsburg and ...

Crown Forces Baggage Park

When the order came to retreat, the civilian teamsters contracted by the British – many from Canada – began harnessing teams of horses and yoking pairs of bawling oxen in the Baggage Park on the flat directly below you. Wagons ...

Trumpeter Swans

This marsh area is the nesting and year-round home of the rare trumpeter swan. In winter months as many as 60-90 trumpeter and tundra swans find a haven on the National Elk Refuge because warm springs provide some ice-free open ...

Gen. Henry Knox Trail

The Noble Train Of Artillery

Through This Place Passed

The Noble Train Of Artillery

Delivered From Fort Ticonderoga

To General George Washington

By Major General Henry Knox

And Placed At Dorchester Heights

By General John Thomas

Forcing Boston's Freedom

And The Evacuation Of

British Troops On March 17, 1776

Dedicated On ...

Stephen Tyng Mather

July 4, 1867 - Jan. 22, 1930

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved, unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to ...

Site of the Tres Pinos Hotel

1873-1958

The hotel served patrons

of the Southern Pacific

line that ended at the

Tres Pinos turntable.

Monterey Viejo Chapter

E Clampus Vitus

June 2, 1973

Marker is at the intersection of California Route 25 and Fifth Street, on the right when traveling north on State Route 25. ...

Pottery

“Today we made the beginning in the ground breaking for our new potter's house, which will be built toward the Monocacy, westward from the Gemein and Choir Houses, in such a way that a row of still needed shops can ...

The Ultimate Sacrifice

The losses sustained by both armies during the Wilderness to Cold Harbor campaign made the world shudder. Casualties by some estimates averaged 2,000 per day, and at Cold Harbor nearly 18,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured.

While Confederate dead were ...