Potters' Emigration Society

Near here in 1849 Thomas Twiggs began a settlement of unemployed potters from Staffordshire, England. To help farmers on both sides of the Fox River reach his store and blacksmith shop at Twiggs' Landing, he operated Emancipation Ferry, named to ...

Alexander's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Longstreet's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Artillery Reserve

Alexander's Battalion

Woolfolk's Jordon's Parker's Taylor's

Moody's and Rhett's Batteries

Two 20 pounder Parrotts, One 10 Pounder Parrott

Seven 3 inch Rifles, Six Napoleons

Four 24 ...

Site of First Services of the Salvation Army

Alexandria, Virginia May 1885. On this site stood Captain Joseph Pugmire and three lassies who conducted the first Salvation Army services in Alexandria. Later, the Salvation Army was located at 319 and 316 King Street from 1922 to 1965, when ...

Exploration [of Galveston]

The first recorded history of Galveston Island occurred in 1528 with the shipwreck of Cabeza de Vaca and his crewmen. They were survivors of Alvarez de Pineda’s ill-fated expediton to Florida and were held captive here by the Karankawa Indians. ...

Wars That Shaped the Nation

The Mexican War

The Mexican War increased the nation’s size by over 20 percent and continued the rapid territorial expansion of the United States. In 1846, after a number of incidents along the border between Texas and Mexico, the United ...

Wallingford Revolutionary War Memorial

Dedicated to the Men

Who Served

The Town of Wallingford

In The American Revolution

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and Cedar Lane, on the left when traveling north on North Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

[Galveston County] 1901-1965

After 1900 the Port of Galveston emerged as the second largest in the United States. Following completion of a deep water channel to Texas City in 1904, the mainland’s major petroleum petro-chemical plants, tin smelter and allied industries, had their ...

Gadsby’s Tavern

Erected 1792. Popular resort and famous hostelry of the Eighteenth Century. Here was held in 1798 the first celebration of Washington's Birthday in which he participated, and from its steps Washington held his last military review and gave his last ...

[Galveston County] Early History

General Xavier Mina, hoping to establish a settlement at what is now the Galveston County mainland, arrived and set up breastworks at Virginia Point in 1816.

Between 1815 and 1817, three leaders of expeditions against Spanish Mexico, Mina, Henry Perry ...

Consolidated Virginia & California Pan Mill

Upper end of Six Mile Canyon (Mill Street), Virginia City

Built in 1874, the mill went into operation in January of 1975, and was destroyed later that year in the great fire of October 25th, but was quickly rebuilt at ...