Courtney Road Service Station

The 1920s were the boom years for construction of gas stations in the United States due to an increase of cars, improved roads and low gas prices. By 1929, there were 143,000 "filling" stations across the nation. Many were built ...

Battle of Cross Keys

Immigrant Soldiers

Many immigrants fought for the North and the South during the Civil War. Their numbers were especially high in Gen. Louis Blenker’s division of Gen. John C. Fremont’s union army at Cross Keys on June 8, 1862.

Two Germans (Gen. ...

Cedar Hill

Cedar Hill was constructed ca. 1820 and originally stood off Creighton Road near the Hanover County line. During the Civil War, units of Kershaw's Division of the Army of the Confederate States set up camp at Cedar Hill and built ...

Enlisted Aerial Gunners

We dedicate this memorial in

honor of all the enlisted

aerial gunners who served

their country so courageously

in the defense of freedom

during WWI, WWII, the Korean

and Vietnam Wars. May their

heroic sacrifices and devotion

to duty be ever remembered.

Dedicated 17 May 1991

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William MacFarland Patton

(1845-1905)

Chair, Civil Engineering 1896-1905

Dean, Department of Engineering 1904-1905

A distinguished engineer, educator, and author, William MacFarland Patton chaired Civil Engineering at VPI and became the first dean of the Department of Engineering. He worked as the engineer on numerous projects in ...

Clark Gable

The King of Hollywood

William Clarke Gable, stage and motion picture actor, was born at Cadiz, Ohio, on February 1, 1901, in a house that once stood on this site. He was reared in nearby Hopedale. During his film career of ...

27th Fighter Bomber Group

A-36 Invader • P-47 Thunderbolt

Five Presidential Citations • 1941 - 1945

Invasions • 1943 - 1945

Sicily, Italy and Southern France

Battle Stars

Sicily • Naples-Foggia • Anzio

Rome-Arno • Northern Appenines • Southern France

Northern France • Rhineland-Central Europe

Dedicated Oct 1991

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Battery Decatur and Disappearing Guns

American coastal defenses were modernized from the 1890s to 1910 with the development of the Endicott System. Emphasis in military tactics shifted the masonry fortifications to more effective weapons based on rifled steel guns, improved breech-loading systems, better propellants (gunpowder), ...

Santa Fe Trail

Side A:

The difficulty of bringing caravans over rocky and mountainous Raton Pass kept most wagon traffic on the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail until the 1840's. Afterwards, the Mountain Branch, which here approaches Raton Pass, became ...

322nd Bomb Group (M)

449th-450th-451st-452nd & HQs. Sqdns.

1942 - 1945

England-France-Belgium-Germany

Distinguished Unit Citation

ETO Medal & Six Battle Stars

To those who flew the B-26

To those who kept them flying

To those we left behind.

“I've trod the high untrespassed

sanctity of space, put out my hand

and touched the face ...