“Mother of Exiles”

Between 1886 and 1924, 14 million immigrants entered America through New York. The Statue of Liberty was a reassuring sign that they had arrived in the land of their dreams. To these anxious newcomers, the Statue’s uplifted torch did not ...

Fort Gibson: The New York Harbor System

Fort Gibson was among 40 forts constructed between 1794 and 1812 in the United States. All were built during threats of war resulting from attacks on American shipping by Great Britain and France, two dominant powers of the 18th ...

Fort Gibson: Defending the Approaches

The fort that stood here on Ellis Island was part of two defensive triangles which made it almost impossible for enemy ships to approach New York City. Any ship entering the upper harbor first had to pass the guns of ...

The South Side of Ellis Island

Statue of Liberty Natl Mon/Ellis Island Immigration Museum

An Adventure in Stabilization

Ellis Island

The 29 buildings on the south side of Ellis Island comprise one of the largest hospitals to be built in the United States during the first decades of this ...

Fort Gibson: Uncovering the Past

If you were standing here in 1812, you would be looking at the exterior wall of Fort Gibson, which was five and a half feet thick and sixteen feet high. What you see now are the remains of that wall’s ...

Fallen Timbers Battle Memorial

In Memoriam

On the Battlefield of Fallen Timbers, in unmarked graves, rest the brave soldiers of General Anthony Wayne's Legion of the United States and the Kentucky Volunteers, who were killed on August 20, 1794, in the victorious conflict with the ...

Fort Gibson: The Other Ellis Island Story

The stones you see here reveal yet another layer of the story of Ellis Island. This is the story of Fort Gibson, one of the earliest forts built after the American Revolution to protect New York Harbor. Discovered during the ...

Site of Camp Pratt

From 1862-1863 Camp Pratt was official Confederate camp of conscription and instruction for South Louisiana. At one as many as 3,000 conscripts here. A small compound for Union Prisoners of war also located at the camp.

Marker is on Old Spanish ...

Fort Brooke Battery

Replica Naval Mounts

Manufactured for

The Friends of Plant Park

The Citizens of Tampa, Hillsborough County

and The University of Tampa

Dedicated to

The original inhabitants, soldiers, sailors and

settlers who with blood sweat and toil

carved this area out ...

The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist

First church in Lafayette Parish was "l'Eglise St Jean de Vermilion." Built on a gift of this site by Jean Mouton, 1821. In 1824 he donated land for a court house and founded Vermilionville (Lafayette).

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La premiere eglise de la paroisse ...