U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers - Amphibious Forces, U.S. Navy Monument

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U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers

Loop Shack Hill

Advanced Amphibious Training Base, Ocracoke (AATB)

December 1943 to January 1946

In December 1943, the U.S. Navy Section Base became the Advanced Amphibious Training Base (AATB) for the Beach Jumpers. Experienced officers and men from earlier ...

Jefferson Davis Camp

On this site

after the evacuation of Richmond

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

with his personal staff and cabinet

camped April 18, 1865.

Dismounting he hitched his horse

to a tree which stood on this spot.

Marker is on Earl Street just north of ...

Site of Fort Mason

Established July 6, 1851

by the U. S. Army

as a protection to the frontier

Named in honor of Lieut. George T. Mason,

killed in action near Brownsville,

April 25, 1846

Albert Sidney Johnston,

George H. Thomas, Earl Van Dorn

and Robert E. Lee,

of the 2nd U. S. ...

Cabarrus Black Boys Fountain

In Memoriam

The Cabarrus Black Boys

who destroyed the British ammunition

May 17,1771

in defense of American Liberty

Marker is on Means Avenue Southeast just east of Union Street South.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jefferson Davis

President, Confederate States of America, spent the night of April 18, 1865 in house which stood here.

Marker is on Union Street North 0.1 miles north of Cabarrus Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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A Show of Wealth

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

Isaac Handy designed Pemberton Hall to impress his neighbors. At the time, over 90 percent of people in the Chesapeake region lived in small, low, clapboard houses, about half the size of the Great Room of Pemberton ...

Oil House Foundation

The brick border on the plaza area in front of you marks the location of the underground foundation and cellar of an oil house built about 1870.

This oil house is the earliest known oil storage and distribution facility at the ...

Lawnfield

Home of

James A. Garfield

Twentieth President of the

United States of America

"How sweet and inviting the

dear home beckons me away among

the green fields of Mentor."

From a letter written by

James Garfield to his wife

Lucretia on May 29, 1877

Courtesy hmdb.org

James A. Garfield's "Lawnfield"

In 1876, James A. Garfield bought this 118-acre farm in the rural village of Mentor, Ohio, and soon purchased an additional 40 acres. Over the next four years, Garfield doubled the size of the house and made it a home ...

Moore’s Ford Lynching

2.4 miles east, at Moore’s Ford Bridge on the Apalachee River, four African-Americans - George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Dorsey Malcom (reportedly 7 months pregnant) - were brutally beaten and shot by an unmasked mob on ...