Chabot Observatory

Founded 1883

This marker, dedicated June 21, 2008, celebrates Chabot Space & Science Center's 125 years of inspiring Bay Area star gazers and curious minds of all ages.

From 1883-1915, an observatory on this site housed Chabot's first telescope, "Leah," an 8-inch ...

Lee's Retreat

Lee's army, retreating toward Danville, reached this place, April 4-5, 1865, only to find that the supplies ordered here had gone on to Richmond. The famished soldiers were forced to halt to forage. The result was that Lee, when he ...

Lamkin’s Battery

This mortar belonged to the battery cammanded by Captain J.N. Lamkin. On July 30, 1864, at the “Crater”, the battery helped check the Union advance until Mahone came up. Four mortars were captured near flat Creek in Lee’s Retreat, April ...

Tuscaloosa Second State Capital

1826-1846

This stone commemorates the City of Tuscaloosa as the second state capital, January 1826 to January 1846.

Erected by the Alabama Centennial Commission and the Citizens of Tuscaloosa, and dedicated December 14, 1919. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary ...

Nathan Hale Schoolhouse

1774 – 1775

Owned and operated by

The Connecticut Society of the

Sons of the American Revolution

Marker is on Atlantic Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Congregational Church

1776   1976

First Congregational Church

A crude, square, wooden structure surrounded by a stockade was erected near this site in 1641-2. It was the first meeting house of the Church of Christ. Later the First Congregational Church. Four members ...

Reams Station

Three miles north. There, the Union cavalryman, Kautz, in Wilson's raid, destroyed the station, June 22, 1864. Returning from Burkeville, Kautz reached there again June 29, and was joined by Wilson. Attacked by Hampton, Wilson and Kautz hastily retreated to ...

14th Ohio Battery

Burial Place

Burial Place

14th Ohio Battery

4 Bodies Removed

to

Nat'l Cemetery.

Marker is on Corinth Road 0.1 miles east of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Schwartz & Raas and San Angelo National Bank Building

These three Victorian commercial structures were built during the local economic boom of the 1880s. Among the earliest permanent buildings in San Angelo, they represent the early development of the city as the leading commercial center of the area. In ...

Alester G. Furman, Jr. Administration Building

Erected 1957

Named in Honor of

Alester Garden Furman, Jr.

Humanitarian, Master Planner, Friend of Youth, Champion of Education, Guiding Light in Building the New South.

This administration building is named to honor Mr. Furman in grateful recognition of his enduring support of Furman ...