The Old Main Watch

Ehem. Hauptwache

[Marker text in German:]

1774 unter Fürstbischof

Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim

nach Plänen von J.E. Roppelt erbaut

militärische Embleme von

Johann Bernhard Kamm

Repräsentationsgebäude der fürstbischöfliche Infantrie

[Marker text translated into English, more or less:]

Constructed in 1774 under Prince Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim according to ...

The Mormons in Quincy

Mormons in Missouri were forced to flee their homes or face death because of an "extermination order" issued in 1838 by Governor Lillburn Boggs. Many of them crossed into Illinois at Quincy and were made welcome by the people here. ...

The Mungen House

This frame vernacular house was built in 1928 for Doane Martin Mungen, Sr. (1872-1948) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Mungen (1874-1955). It is located in the Oakland neighborhood, which was platted in 1869, and emerged in the 1870s as a ...

The Fame of Stonewall Jackson

Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.M., G.C.M.G.

British soldier of the highest rank,

says:

“The fame of Stonewall Jackson is no longer the exclusive property of Virginia and the South; it has become the birthright of every man ...

St Vincent's Seminary and Southeast Missouri State University

Terrace Park is located on the site where Father Odin of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentian Fathers) established St. Vincent's Male Academy in 1838, which was followed shortly thereafter by St. Vincent's Seminary.

Often affectionately called "The Cape", St. Vincent's ...

Romney In The Civil War

Strategic Location on the Turnpike

Romney experienced many troop movements and skirmishes during the course of the war because of its location on the vitally important North Western Turnpike The road linked Winchester, near the northern end of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, ...

James Buchanan       The Early Years

“It is a rugged but romantic spot, and the mountain and mountain stream under the scenery captivating. I have warm attachments for it . . . ”James Buchanan on Stony Batter

The Buchanans enjoyed living on the edge of the ...

Grapeshot Among the Pines

"Somehow they found out we were in the woods east of town. They took two cannon up the pike to where the Toll House now stands and fired several rounds of grapeshot among the pines." John Starnes Memoir

The road passing ...

Campaign in the Snow

Jackson Captures Bath and Romney

The summer of 1861 had been disastrous for Confederate arms in western Virginia (present day West Virginia) and by the New Year the Virginia counties west of the Alleghenies were on the road to statehood. On ...

Barracks     The Virginia Military Institute

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States.

U. S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1966

Marker is on Letcher Avenue, on ...