Fourth Crossing

Located on the Stockton-Murphy Road at the fourth crossing of the Calaveras River, this early mining settlement, once called Foremans, was famous in the 1850's for its rich placer ores. Later, it became an important stage and freighting depot and ...

Rector’s Crossroads

They Did Their Job

(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into ...

A Crossroads of American History

The Frederick Square Corner

The Square Corner, at the intersection of Patrick and Market Streets, has long been the commercial and financial heart of Frederick. It is here that the National Road meets several important north-south roads that lead to Pennsylvania, ...

Crossing the Atlantic

Richmond Slave Trail

Spanning nearly 350 years, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade displaced over 12 million Africans from their native lands to foreign soils. European traders eager to fill the labor vacuum in the New World participated in the capture and sale ...

Hamilton's Crossing

The Battle of Fredericksburg

This footpath leads to the site of Hamilton's Crossing, a critical supply base for Confederate troops camped near Fredericksburg during the winter of 1862-63. Prior to the Civil War, Hamilton's Crossing had been merely a flag-stop on ...

Marshall’s Crossroads

Lee’s Retreat

Union cavalry found Confederate infantry posted here along the road to Rice’s Depot. While others fought along Little Sailor’s Creek at Hillsman’s farm, the horse soldiers attacked this portion of Lee’s army which eventually withdrew from the field or ...

"Decision at the Crossroads" Corinth: October 4, 1862

On the morning of October 4, 1862, nearly 20,000 Confederates under Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn launched a massive assault on Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans' 20,000 Federal soldiers defending the interior line of Corinth's entrenchments. Attacking from the north ...

Holy Cross WWII / Korean Conflict Monument

Dedicated To Veterans

From Holy Cross Parish

Who Served In The

Defense Of Our

Country During The

Second World War

1941 - - - 1945

and

The Korean Conflict

1950 - - - 1953

Erected By

Holy Cross Mothers

Of Servicemen Society

Dedicated May 1956

Marker is at the intersection of Farmington Avenue and ...

Crossing the Mason and Dixon

Pennsylvania, at Last!

Four thousands of Confederates in Gen. Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North in 1863, the rate of march exceeded thirty miles a day. Since this part of Maryland is so narrow, splashing across the Potomac River in ...

Three-Way Interlocking Crossing

Unique railroading history is on display before you. A three-way interlocking railway crossing.

The crossing, formerly located in the northern part of Columbus, was donated to the City of Columbus by the Burlington Northern Railroad. At the time, the switch was ...