Bolling Air Force Base

[Panel 1]:

Old Bolling Field

1917 - Survey for the site of a military flying field to be used for defense of Washington and for proficiency flying. Captain William "Billy" Mitchell, commander of Army Signal Corps Aeronautics Division urges purchase ...

Visitor Center (1893 Pavilion)

Visitor Center

(1893 Pavilion)

This building was originally built in 1893 as the park pavilion. It was used as a shelter for park visitors during inclement weather, for dances and picnics.

The upstairs was used as the original park ...

The American Legion Tablet

The American Legion prays for peace

-- but peace with honor!

We pray that mankind will accept as a basis

for this peace the trinity of

religious, political and social freedom won in

the American Revolution,

preserved in the Civil War,

protected in the Spanish-American War, and

defended ...

Rucker’s Chapel

Nearby stood Rucker’s Chapel, one of the first

Anglican (present-day Episcopal) churches in

Amherst County. Also known as Harris Creek

Church and later as St. Matthew’s, the church

was founded by Col. Ambrose Rucker before 1751.

It stood on part of a 5,850-acre tract his ...

Myrtle Beach Pavilions

[Front]

A succession of four beach pavilions stood here or nearby from 1902 to 2006, all built by the Burroughs & Chapin Co. or the Myrtle Beach Farms Co. The first, built in 1902, was a simple oceanfront shelter. The ...

Putnam Memorial State Park

Putnam Memorial State Park

This park commemorates the three winter encampments in 1778 – 79 of Major General Isreal Putnam’s division of Continental Army troops during the Revolutionary War. The memorial park was created on the actual site of ...

William Baudler

This land and

the surrounding land

was settled by

William Baudler

on May 8, 1855

Marker can be reached from 4th Street NW south of 17th Avenue NW.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ferry Lane

Oct. 1777 Burgoyne’s Brunswick

troops marched through this

lane to Vandenburgh Ferry and

prison camp at Cambridge, Mass.

Marker is at the intersection of Hudson Avenue (U.S. 4) and Ferry Lane, on the left when traveling south on Hudson Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

George Washington's Political Career Began on this Site

On July 24, 1758, at the first Frederick County Court House on this site, Colonel George Washington, age 26, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. This was the first elective office of the young commander of Virginia's forces ...

Battery I, First Ohio Artillery

Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps

Battery I First Ohio Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Captain Hubert Dilger commanding

July 1 Arrived at Gettysburg before noon and went into position west of the Carlisle Road. Engaged with two Confederate batteries. A Confederate rifled battery having ...