Thomas F. Price

Roman Catholic priest, pioneer Home Missionary of N.C. Co-founder of “Maryknoll Fathers,” a foreign mission society. Birthplace (1860) one block east.

Marker is on North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) just south of Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

The Urban Face of the Scioto River

The confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers is just northwest of North Bank Park, and the rivers were the major attraction for both Native American and white settlers. The river and its tributaries were the life-blood to the region ...

Tumlinson Family

John (1776-1823) and Elizabeth Plemmons (1778-1829) Tumlinson were born in Lincoln County, North Carolina and lived in Tennessee, Illinois, and Arkansas before coming to Texas with their seven children as members of Austin's Old Three Hundred Colony. The Tumlinson family ...

Ironclads and Gunboats of the Savannah River Squadron

During the Civil War, the Savannah River Squadron protected the City of Savannah from Union attack by river. The

squadron usually consisted of small coastal and river steamers. In November 1861, the British-built blockade-runner Fingal arrived in Savannah and was ...

Bluffton United Methodist Church

The Methodist Society, organized in Bluffton,

built the first church and parsonage on

Boundry Street in 1853. During the Civil War,

two confederate soldiers saved the

church from being burned. In 1875 the church

sold the building to the AME ...

The 75th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy

This tree and anchor dedicated to the City of Victoria celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy by HMCS Malahat 21 April 1985.

Rededicated on 3 May 1998 in celebration of the Naval Reserves’s 75th Anniversary

This historic Admiralty pattern ...

100th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy

Prior to 1910. the Royal Navy provided maritime defence of British North America and for the Dominion of Canada from 1867. With World War I brewing in Europe early in the 20th century, Great Britain redistributed the British fleet and ...

Revolutionary Battlefields

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Marker

Marker is at the intersection of East Dominick Street and Bouck Street, on the right when traveling east on East Dominick Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Shot of the War of Secession

1861 - 1961

At half past four on the morning

of April 12, 1861, from a mortar near

this spot on Fort Johnson, the first

shot of the War of Secession was fired,

by order of Captain George S. James ...

Confederate Dead

Here are buried 51 unknown and one known Confederate soldier and one Negro hospital attendant. These men died of wounds or disease in the Confederate hospitals located nearby, the Stout, Blackie, Asylum, Turnbull, and some temporary ones. These hospitals operated ...