The Dairy Building

The Civil War at Endview

In the South, dairy buildings were small structures, usually 14 feet square with a gable roof. The buildings’ overhanging eaves, louvered ventilators, and insulated walls were designed to keep the milk cool inside. Milk was placed ...

Holy Ground

Here on the scene of John Brown’s martyrdom we reconsecrate ourselves, our honor, our property to the final emancipation of the race which John Brown died to make free… Thank God for John Brown!... and all the hallowed dead who ...

Office of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill

Office Site of Dr. J. Marion Sims

(Side A):Office of Dr. Luther Leonidas HillThis early 20th-century building was office of Dr. L.L. Hill who, in 1902, performed first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere when he sutured stab wound in ...

Meriden Spanish American War Memorial

This memorial presented by the City of Meriden to the veterans of the Spanish American War

Company L., First Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry.

Bowen, Charles B. • Jones, Delbert R. • Keeney, Raymond G. • Abel, Alfred A. • Abel, Arthur ...

Good Roads in Colorado

Even before people began driving automobiles in Colorado, they clamored for good roads. In the late 1880s men, women, and children of all backgrounds jumped on breezy bicycles known as “velocipedes” or “Wheels” but cursed the roads-rutted, unmarked, and riddled ...

The Montgomery Theater

On a wall in this building,

"The Montgomery Theater"

Dan Emmett

first inscribed the score of Dixie

for his minstrel orchestra.

H.F. Arnold

arranged it for band music and used it at

the inauguration of

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy.

February 18, 1861

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1371

Seashore State Park at Cape Henry, now known as First Landing State Park, was built by an all African American regiment of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal-era relief program that employed young men ages 17 to 25. The ...

Battery H, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

First Brigade - Second Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

Second Division First Brigade

3rd Penna. Heavy Artillery

Section Battery H

Two 3 inch Rifles

Captain William D. Rank

July 2 Marched with the 2d. Cavalry Division and went into position on the Hanover ...

Muddy Creek Camp and Crossing

?The Muddy Creek Camp, which was northwest of this marker and on the west side of the Muddy Creek was used by Brigham Young's first group of Mormon pioneers who arrived here on July 9, 1847. Thomas Bullock reported that ...

Dunkerhook Road

This old colonial lane was named Dunkerhook meaning Dark Corner by the Dutch who settled the area in the early 18th century. Along this road, the Zabriskie family, who bought the land from the Indians in 1702, built houses and ...