The Great Fire of 1875

The most spectacular calamity to befall Virginia City had its origins within fifty feet of this marker. Early on the morning of October 28, 1875 a coal oil lamp was knocked over in a nearby boarding house and burst into ...

19th Maine Infantry Regiment

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

19th Maine Inf'y Reg't.

1st Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps

In the Evening of July 2d this Regiment at a position on the left of Batt'y C, 5th U.S. helped to repel the enemy that had driven in Humphreys' ...

Capital Guardian

The First Fort

Troubles with Britain caused Congress in 1807 to authorize an improved system of forts along the Atlantic Coast to guard harbors, rivers, and seaports.

The first fort, Fort Warburton, was completed in 1809. Located near the river in front ...

451st Bombardment Squadron

In honor

of

the men who served in the

451st Bombardment Squadron

322nd Bombardment Group (M)

Flew 301 combat missions in

B-26 Marauders from

England, France and Belgium during WWII

6 Campaigns in European Theatre of Operations

Distinguished Unit Citation;

ETO, 17 July 1943 - 24 July 1944

“Our Fallen Comrades ...

Birthplace of Charles Holmes Herty

(1867-1938)

Charles Holmes Herty, one of America’s outstanding chemists, was born on this site December 4, 1867. He spent his early life in Milledgeville where he attended the Middle Georgia Agricultural and Military College (now Georgia College). Later he studied at ...

Hobcaw Barony

[Marker Front]:

In 1718 the Lords Proprietors granted

12,000 acres on Hobcaw Point, the

southern portion of Waccamaw Neck,

to John, Lord Carteret. The barony was

subdivided beginning in 1766, creating

several large rice plantations which

flourished until the Civil War. In 1905-

07 Bernard M. ...

Guyton Confederate General Hospital

In May 1862 the Confederate Government established a General Hospital in Guyton, Georgia. This hospital was located on a nine acre tract of land between Central Railroad, a determining factor in locating hospitals, and current Georgia Highway 119, Lynn Bonds ...

El Conquistador Water Tower

Constructed in 1928, the tower is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated as a Tucson Landmark.

The tower's Spanish colonial revival sheathing was designed by Tucson architect Roy Place and added in 1932.

In 1994, the ...

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Cold Harbor

Near this stone rest the remains of

889 Union Soldiers,

gathered from the Battle Fields of

Mechanicsville, Savage-Station, Gaines-Mills,

And the vicinity of

Cold-Harbor.

Erected by Congress

Year of our Lord 1877, and in the 101st year of the

Independence of the United States of America.

Marker can ...

First Soil Conservation District Plan

On February 4, 1938, Mrs. Ploma M. Adams, owner of this farm, assisted by the Upper Savannah Soil Conservation District, initiated the first Farm-Conservation Plan of any district in America.

Marker is on West South 4th Street, on the left when ...