Site of Camp Pratt

From 1862-1863 Camp Pratt was official Confederate camp of conscription and instruction for South Louisiana. At one as many as 3,000 conscripts here. A small compound for Union Prisoners of war also located at the camp.

Marker is on Old Spanish ...

Union Community Hospital

Marker Front:

Union Community Hospital served the black community and nearby areas from 1932 to 1975. Built as a house ca. 1915, it was converted into a hospital by Dr. L. W. Long in 1932 with the support of several local ...

Old Cool Springs Cemetery

1840 - 1873

Site of Cool Springs Baptist Church, now First Baptist Church, organized in John Bostick Home, 1848. First log meeting house 1855-1867. First church and cemetery in settlement.

Marker is on Vance St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oxon Cove, the Potomac, and the Chesapeake

The history of Oxon Cove Park is a small part of the larger story of the Potomac River, which is one chapter in the long tale of the Chesapeake Bay. But the three stories overlap in many details and eras.

For ...

Livermore Southern Pacific Depot

This railroad station having been located about half a mile west of the old town of Laddsville, on land owned by Wm. M. Mendenhall. Established the location of the town Livermore. The first depot was a freight car that was ...

The Pedestal

The granite pedestal of the Statue was paid for entirely by private funds raised in the United States. It was designed by the eminent American architect, Richard Morris Hunt, and engineered by former Civil War General, Charles P. Stone. Its ...

Civilian Conservation Corps

Camp Devil's Lake

In an effort to get the economy moving during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Federal Government initiated a number of work projects. One of these was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

The CCC was for ...

William M. Mendenhall 1823 – 1911 / DeAnza Expedition Campsite

[Located at the Livermore Civic Center is a two-sided monument. Side 1 is a marker dedicated to William M. Mendenhall, founder of the town of Livermore. Side 2 is a marker marking this site as a campsite of the Juan ...

United Spanish War Veterans

Tampa's 203 mm Spanish American War Gun

( North face )

This spot was headquarters

for Roosevelt Rough Riders,

Wheeler Cavalry and the

First Florida Troops 1898

( Northeast face )

This war brought the blue

of the cold bleak ...

Old City Hall Complex

Brevard Art Museum was at one time City Hall, police, and fire department of Eau Gallie. Whenever there was a fire, a siren, located on top of the three story roof, would inform all the local volunteers they were needed. ...