Bernard's Cabins

The Battle of Fredericksburg

On this knoll stood Bernard's Cabins, a small community that in 1860 was home to about three dozen slaves. The complex consisted of three two-room cabins, a stone-lined well, and perhaps two additional buildings. This was only ...

Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery.

4-3 inch Rifles.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Capt. Hiram M. Bledsoe, Commanding.

1st Lieut. R. L. Wood.

1st Lieut. C. W. Higgins.

2d Lieut. E. W. Anderson.

2d Lieut. L. L. Maughas.

2d Lieut. J. S. Wheatley.

Nov. 25, 1863.

The battery came into ...

The Hermitage

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Home of Andrew Jackson (1767~1845), Major General in the Army, hero of the Battle of New Orleans, and seventh President of the United States. It was originally built in 1819; partially burned in 1834, during Jackson's second term, replaced by ...

Alexander P. de Seversky

In memory of

Major

Alexander P. de Seversky

Aviator, Engineer,

Advocate of Air Power

1894 - 1974

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Old Deery Inn

Built shortly after 1785 by William Deery. Stopping place for many distinguished travelers of early days, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, the Marquis de Lafayette, Prince Louis Phillipe, Andrew Johnson and other enjoyed its hospitality. It operated as an inn ...

Kosciusko County Civil War Memorial

These guns were donated by the government to Posts 114 & 442 G.A.R. and by them presented to Kosciusko County, to be dedicated as a monument to the Union soldiers of 1861-65.

Dedicated Oct. 1897

These guns during the War of the ...

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

was born here

October 27, 1858

Birthplace reproduced

by the

Womans Roosevelt Memorial Association

January 6, 1921

Marker is on East 20th Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Glider Pilots

“In Memory of the Glider Pilots

Who Served Their Country in WWII”

October 8, 1987

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U.S. Coast Guard on Mustang Island

The Aransas Pass has significantly influenced the economic development of the region. The natural waterway also has included treacherous navigational hazards. In 1878, the US Government addressed this situation when it established the first Aransas Life Saving Station on Mustang ...

Chattanooga's First Citizens

In June, 1837 the fifty-three householders living on the two hundred forty acres bounded by Tennessee River. Georgia Avenue, Ninth Street and Cameron Hill elected commissioner to represent them in securing legal title to their individual parcels of land, thus ...