Tommy Johnsom

Mississippi Blues Trail Marker

Tommy Johnson (1896-November 1,1956) was one of the most influential blues artists in Mississippi in the 1920s and 1930s. He grew up in the Crystal Springs area, where he often performed with his brothers LeDell and Mager. ...

Army of the Potomac

July 5, 1863

Second Corps marched from Gettysburg to Two Taverns. Fifth Corps to Marsh Run. Sixth Corps to Fairfield. Eleventh Corps to Rock Creek. Twelfth Corps to Littlestown. First brigade Second cavalry division to Emmitsburg and the Artillery Reserve to ...

Potawatomi Indian Village

Archaeological evidence suggests that

Chief Menominee's Village was located

approximately 2½ miles southeast

of here on the northern bank of the

Yellow River near Wolf Creek.

Marker is on South Peach Road 0.2 miles south of Menominee Drive, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Army of the Potomac

July 6, 1863

First Corps marched from Gettysburg to Emmitsburg. Fifth Corps from Marsh Run to Moritz's Cross-Roads. Sixth Corps from Fairfield to Emmitsburg except the Third brigade, Second Division which in conjunction with the First Brigade, Second Cavalry Division was ...

Power of the Potomac

The Potomac River races east past you with enough mountain-carving power to punch through the entire Blue Ridge to your right. Such energy easily powered the entire national armory from the early 1800s until 1861. Diverted by a dam upstream, ...

Natomas Consolidated of California

Natomas Company activities started in this area in 1857 with the acquisition of 9,000 acres from the Joseph L. Folsom estate.

Early partners engaged in water, granite quarrying, agriculture, vineyards, gold mining, hydro-electric power and helped build Folsom Prison and ...

Tomáš G. Masaryk Memorial

Tomáš G. Masaryk

“He had the mind of a scholar, the figure of a sportsman, the bearing of an aristocrat, the position of a king. But he had the heart of a democrat. ...”

Dorothy Thompson, NBC broadcast, September 24, 1957.

This memorial ...

Tomb Of An Unknown Soldier

On the highest mountain top to the southeast is the grave of an unknown soldier. The mountain top was used as a signal station by both armies, 1861-1865.

Marker is on Valley Pike (U.S. 11) 0.2 miles north of Water Plant ...

Meem’s Bottom Covered Bridge

Built in 1892 by Franklin Hiser Wissler to provide access to his apple orchards at Strathmore Farms, this is the longest remaining covered bridge in Virginia. a 200-foot single span, located one-half mile northwest, the bridge is a Burr Truss ...

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House / National Museum of the Am

Exploring Downtown

Before the income tax was invented, the duty levied on imported goods financed almost the entire cost of America’s federal government – and as much as 80 per cent of that duty came through the Port of New York, ...