Mannington / Flaggy Meadow

Mannington. Once called Koontown but renamed in 1856 when chartered as town by Va. Assembly. Incorporated under W. Va. law in 1871. Abundant natural gas attracted diverse industry by 1900. Brick, glass and boiler factories, machine shops, granite works, Bowers ...

Old La Playa

From 1770 to 1870, this was San Diego's port. Over the Brookline hide house, Americans unofficially raised a U.S. flag in 1829. At that time La Playa was a thriving trading and shipping village. Richard Henry Dana's account of the ...

Baron Von Steuben

This general was experienced in siege warfare such as characterized the Yorktown battle and so he was invaluable to Washington. Von Steuben maintained headquarters here with his division of American troops.

Marker is on Historical Tour Drive, on the left when ...

Lincoln & Photography

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During the Spring term of the Circuit Court in 1858, Abraham Lincoln sat for a portrait with photographer Samuel Alschuler. Alschuler’s studio was on the second floor of the Lowenstern Building, at the southwest corner ...

Swett's Mississippi Battery

Shaver's Brigade - Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Swett's Mississippi Battery,

Shaver's (1st) Brigade, Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This battery, the fourth in Ruggles' line, was engaged here from about 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. April 6, 1862.

Marker can be reached from Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road, ...

Coles County - - Civil War Memorial

(Upper Portion):Tribute of

Coles County

in Honor of her

Sons who fought

for

The Union

1775 - - 1781

1812 - - 1815

1846 - - 1848

1861 - - 1865

1898 - - 1898

(Lower Portion):A house divided against its self cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently ...

Ambush at Ewell’s Chapel

His Men Quickly Scattered

Acting on good intelligence, Union Gen. George G. Meade ordered a trap set here for Maj. John Singleton Mosby and his band of partisan rangers on the morning of June 22, 1863. With a small detachment of ...

Josef Myslive?ek

{Marker text in Czech:}

V t?chto místech

prožil sve mladí

?eský skladatel

Josef

Myslive?ek

1737 • 1781

{Marker text translated into English, more or less:}

At this location the Czech composer Josef Myslivecek spent his youth.

Marker can be reached from Novotného Lávka just from Smetanovo Náb?. ...

Honoring the Ex-Braceros and Their Contributions

Honoramos los Ex-Braceros y Sus Contribuciones

During and after World War II, nearly 5,000,000

contracted braceros came to work in agriculture

and on the railroads, the majority in California and

the San Joaquin Valley, under U.S. and Mexican Treaty,

demonstrating their patriotism during the great ...

New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad

1832–1853

One of the earliest in the United States, the line ran from New Castle on the Delaware River, crossed the highway here, and extended to Frenchtown on the Elk River 1 1/2 miles west of this point.

Marker is at the ...