Ritz Theater

The Ritz Theater opened its doors on this site

September 14, 1936, and for more than fifty (50) years prided itself as the “Hub of the Brewton

Community.” Between its first feature, “YOURS

FOR THE ASKING” and its last, “CROCODILE ...

Peter Jones Trading Station

You are looking into the bowels of this building from near the attic downward to the second, first, and basement levels. You see a massive, rubble-stone structure with stone walls approximately 2’8” thick at the basement level which taper slightly ...

Gateway to Discovery

Annapolis

Look around the harbor. Imagine what the first colonists saw more than 350 years ago when they first viewed this Chesapeake Bay peninsula: a pristine, abundant natural site with deep, protected harbors that had experienced little human settlement.

"...heaven and earth ...

Peter Jones Trading Station

The building before you was built as part of a trading station set up during the middle of the 17th century by Peter Jones I and his father-in-law Major General Abraham Wood. The building is known variously as Peter Jones ...

Confederate Defense of Mill Creek Gap

Feb. 25, 1864. Stewart’s and Breckinridge’s divs. in the gap, repulsed the attacks of the Federal 14th A.C., from the N.W., while Hindman's A.C. drove back Cruft's and Bard’s divs. in Crow Valley E. of Rocky Face Ridge and N. ...

Peter Jones Trading Station

You are looking into the bowels of this building from near the attic downward to the second, first, and basement levels. You see a massive, rubble-stone structure with stone walls approximately 2’8” thick at the basement level which taper slightly ...

Father Kehoe Triangle

Dedicated in memory of those who gave their lives in Vietnam

Marker is on Flatlands Avenue , Avenue M and Ryder Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Staten Island World War I Memorial

Front inscription:

America over the top

Rear inscription:

Erected by the residents of Public School Dist. 26 in honor of the 75 men who left to fight in the great World War. We lovingly inscribe the names of those ...

Blunt Reservation and Fields

This is the western boundary of a reservation set aside the by the treaty of Fort Moultrie and given to John Blunt (Blount) one of the six principal chiefs of the Florida Indians. The Apalachicola River was the eastern boundary. ...

Meherrin Station

“Wrapt in Smoke”

In June 1864, to deny Gen. Robert E. Lee the use of the South Side R.R. and the Richmond and Danville R.R., Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson and Gen. August V. Kautz south of ...