The Great Seal of the State of Ohio

Side A:

The hills before you were inspiration for the design of The Great Seal of the State of Ohio. The seal, first depicted in 1803, was often reconfigured until the present image was sanctioned by the Ohio General Assembly in ...

Alabama State University / Tullibody

Side A

Founded 1866 as the Abraham Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Alabama by nine former slaves. Operated from 1868 until 1874 by the American Missionary Association. The school began to receive state funding in 1874, making it the first state-assisted ...

Jekyll Island Boat House Site , Shipshape for the Season

(Left text)

There is very little photo documentation of

exactly what the Boathouse looked like during

the Club era. Club members rarely would have

been found in this area, It was typically used

by year-round employees.

The only visible evidence of the ...

Battery Buchanan

Fort Fisher’s Last Stand

These are the remnants of Battery Buchanan, named for Confederate Adm. Franklin Buchanan. It was constructed in 1864 to guard this point and also to serve as “a citadel to which an overpowered garrison might retreat.” It ...

McAllister's Battery

Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S.

McAllister's Battery,

"D" 1st Ill. Lt. Art., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery was engaged here with 3 guns in repelling last attack upon McClernand's lines Sunday afternoon April 6, 1862.

Marker is ...

Last Stand At Wilmington

The Forks Road Engagement

Here, in the earthworks in front of you, Confederate Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s troops made a stand on February 20-21, 1865. They were attempting to halt the Union army’s advance on Wilmington, the Confederacy’s principal seaport. Blockade ...

Fighting at Hessian Lake

Fighting at Hessian Lake

You are walking part of the 1777 historic trail that retraces as nearly as possible the routes taken by the British army during the Revolutionary War.

On October 6, 1777, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton landed ...

Trades along the Battle Road

Minute Man Nat’l Hist Park, Mass

In 1775, the house before you was the home of Job and Anna Brooks, and their children Asa and Anna. Across the street was the home of cousin Joshua Brooks and his family.

From the late ...

Graves' Battery

The Confederate outer defenses, in February 1862, formed a 3-mile broken line around Fort Donelson and Dover. The Confederates cut trees in front of the entrenchments to construct an abitis, a formidable obstacle to the enemy. Field artillery batteries took ...

Stone's Battery

Battery K, 1st Missouri Lt. Art. - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Stone's Battery

"K" 1st MO. Lt. Art., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, with two 10 pdr. and two 20 pdr. Parrott guns, was in action here from 9 a.m. ...