The Ohio Oil Co - Marathon Oil Co / Gas Boom Era

Side A: The Ohio Oil Company-Marathon Oil Company

Site of the first Findlay Field Office for what was to become a world-wide oil company, formerly locally owned and operated.

1887: The Ohio Oil Company was incorporated by five independent oil producers in ...

Green Davis Tailgate Terrace

“Tailgating" on the Troy campus was initiated during the 1990’s through the example and leadership of Green Davis. In 1993 the area outside of Memorial Stadium was named in honor of Green Davis for his enduring efforts to boost Trojan ...

Union Raid On Coalfield Station

On the first day of Union Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz's second raid (12-17 May 1864) on Confederate railroads around Richmond, 3,000 cavalrymen rode northwest from Bermuda Hundred and passed Chesterfield Court House at 1:00 P.M. Arriving about midnight at ...

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail / Camp 21: El Aqui

Juan Bautista de Anza

National Historic Trail

While the American Revolution brewed on the Atlantic Coast, Spain expanded its New World empire to protect California against the British and Russians. In 1774, Juan Bautista de Anza, commander of the Royal Presidio of ...

Black Heath

Half a mile north stood Black Heath, later owned by Captain John Heth, officer in Continental Army, whose son, Henry Heth, Major-General C.S.A., was born here in 1825. Coal of high quality was mined here.

Marker is on Midlothian Turnpike (U.S. ...

Lincoln Bathhouse

The Lincoln Bathhouse was established in 1915, converted from the abandoned Natural Carbonic Gas Company Plant. Although this bathhouse accommodated large numbers of patrons, it could not keep up with the demand, so construction of the Washington Bathhouse began. By ...

Dawson's Georgia Battery.

Eldridge's Artillery Battalion.

Dawson's Georgia Battery.

Two 12-PDR. Napoleons; Two 12-PDR. Howitzers.

Maj. J.W. Eldridge's Artillery Battalion.

Stewart's Div. Breckinridges's Corps.

1st Lieut. R.W. Anderson, Commanding,

1st Lieut. Henry S. Greaves,

2nd Lieut. R.H. Brown, 2d Lieut. W.G. Allen.

Nov. 25th, 1863, 4 P.M.

The battery came into position ...

The Atlantic Trade

New London Enters the World Economy

English settlers were attracted to the Thames River because it offered a safe harbor and good anchorage with easy access to the sea. This quickly led to a thriving community based on coastal trade.

New London ...

Confederate Burial Trench #2

To the Confederate Dead

in the Trenches

Erected by Tenn. Division

U.D.C. 1935

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Sherman Road and Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Extension Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nathan Hale

Schoolteacher & Spy from Connecticut

A Yale graduate, Hale began teaching here in the Union School House in 1774. He taught all ages and levels of boys at the same time. A progressive teacher for his day, Hale openly rewarded ...