First Brigade

Third Division - Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps - Third Division

First Brigade

Brig. Gen. Alex. Schimmelfennig

82d Illinois, 45th. 157th. New York

61st. Ohio, 74th Pennsylvania Infantry

July 1 Arrived about 1 p.m. and advanced to connect with the right of First Corps ...

D-Day Anniversary

On this day, June 6, in the year 1944 allied forces invaded Normandy - the most massive invasion attempt in history. By nightfall, they had liberated 80 miles of French soil and a toehold for the consequential drive into Germany ...

Allegheny College

Oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains. Founded 1815. Chartered 1817. The college's first president, Timothy Alden, was architect of Bentley Hall, which became the center of administration.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Arnold's British Defenses, 1781

A brick wind­mill near here was close to the south­ern limit of a line of British redoubts erected in March 1781 by order of Brigadier Gen­eral Bene­dict Arnold, who under Major Gen­eral William Phillips, com­manded British troops occu­py­ing Portsmouth. This ...

Buhne General Store

—c 1858—

Buhne General Store

Greek Revival Architecture

Eureka’s Oldest Commercial Building

Captain H.H. Buhne, Proprietor

Eureka Historical Landmark

This program possible through a partnership with property owners Globe Properties: Bob, Barbara, & Robert P. Maxon, Eureka Main Street, and the ...

Italianate Architecture

— c1880 —

Italianate Architecture

Built for J. McLauchlan, restaurant, saloons downstairs; alpine rooms upstairs; one of the longest operating bordellos

Eureka Historic Landmark

This program possible through a partnership with property owner Dr. Marybeth Wolford, Eureka Main Street, and ...

Henry B. Bradford

1761 - 1833

Early Methodist Protestant minister; educator; and soldier in the Revolution. Founded Bradford's Church on this site circa 1792.

Marker is on State Highway 481.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Piedmont Railroad

Railroad line between Greensboro and Danville. Constructed, 1862-1864, for the Confederacy. Its terminus was nearby.

Marker is at the intersection of East Washington Street and South Church Street, on the right when traveling east on East Washington Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Las Vegas Springs

8000 B.P.

Bubbling artesian springs flowed here until they were exhausted in the middle of the 20th century, over-pumped to serve the city's growing population.

These springs and the creek they created gave life to the center of the valley. They erupted ...

The William T. Jones, III Bridge

This man was born and reared on the land adjacent to and southwest of this bridge where his ancestors settled in the late 1750's. His forbears were very civic minded and patriotic and included many doctors and lawyers. Among them ...