Alexander H. Stephens House Site

Alexander H. Stephens

Vice President of the

Confederate States of America

Lived in the house that stood here in 1861

This tablet is placed by the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society, A.D., 1912,

Marker is at the intersection of East Clay Street and North 12th Street, on ...

Aransas Pass

C.S.A.

Aransas Pass, The natural inlet (3 miles) to Aransas Bay, separates San Jose and Mustang Islands. These islands are part of a chain of barrier islands which extend along the entire length of Texas' coastal mainland.

At the beginning of the ...

Gen. Thomas Sumter Memorial Highway

This honors his 250th birthday,

1734-1984. Born in Va., Aug. 14.

A frontiersman and Indian fighter.

By 1760 he had settled in S.C. He was

a member First Provincial Congress,

called in 1775 because war with

England threatened. The commander

of The 6th Reg., S.C., in 1776, ...

Capital Guardian

Fort Washington

Building the Second Fort

On September 8, 1814, only 12 days after the destruction of Fort Warburton, Pierre L'Enfant was commissioned by the Government to reestablish a fortification here. Work began that October but increasing friction between L'Enfant and the ...

"A Most Deplorable Condition"

“I have now over 200 in camp, and they are in a most deplorable condition….I have a mother with her dying babe in my office. The rest are in camp, in a condition next to death. Most of them have ...

President’s Mansion

White House of the Confederacy

This house was the executive mansion of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family from August 1861 until April 2, 1865. A West Point graduate, former U.S. senator from Mississippi, and former U.S. secretary of war, ...

Wallace S. McElwain / Irondale Furnace Ruins

Wallace S. McElwain

(1832-1888)McElwain trained in a gun factory in New York and in a foundry in Ohio before moving to Holly Springs, MS, where he operated Jones, McElwain and Company Iron Foundry. He was well known in the Southeast for ...

4950th Test Wing Crash Memorial

In Remembrance

These 21 trees form a living tribute to

loved ones lost in the 6 May 1981

crash of a 4950th Test Wing EC-135N

Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft

Capt Thomas E. Bayliss

SSgt Joseph T. Brundige, Jr.

SSgt Michael W. Darling

SSgt Douglas A. Diblet

Maj Joseph C. ...

Free to Learn

If you had been an African-American student standing here around 1950, you would have been facing your school, the Hawkins School (above). This school was part of a continuum of African-American education that began with the Civil War and ended ...

Goshen Church

Goshen Church was built about 1751. It was served by the early pastors of the Salzburgers, and later for a short time by the Moravian missionaries. The church remained a part of the Ebenezer Charge until after the Revolutionary War.

In ...