Catskill Mountains

Historic New York

          The deep ravines, irregular ridges and rocky slopes of the Catskill Mountains long remained wild and desolate. Small settlements began in mountain valleys before the American Revolution. After the war, population grew ...

Middle Spring Presbyterian Church Commemorative Marker

In commemoration of

the sacrifice and service

of the men of Middle Spring

Patriots-Pioneers

Builders

Site of First Log Church

1738

Marker is on Macclays Mill Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Groundwater Irrigation Beginnings

[Marker Front:]

Groundwater Irrigation Beginnings

The San Joaquin Valley's groundwater reservoir was first tapped with a practical pumping plant 4 miles northeast of here on Dec. 12, 1894. William De La Grange of Selma, tired of upstream irrigationists draining Kings River water ...

Mendenhall's Battery

Batteries H & M, 4th United States Artillery - Crittenden's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

Mendenhall's Batteries,

"H" & "M" 4th United States Artillery,

Crittenden's (5th) Division

These batteries, with four guns, were engaged here

from about noon to 2 p.m. April 7, 1862.

Marker is on ...

Welker's Battery

Battery H, 1tst Missouri Lt. Art., W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Welker's Battery,

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

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, of two 10 pdr. and two 20 pdr. Parrotts occupied this position April 6, 1862 from 9 a.m. to 3 ...

Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association Building

Erected 1917

One of the last works of Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924), the American architect whose original ideas of functional design and decorative ornament provided a basis for modern American architecture.

Marker is at the intersection of Court Street (Ohio Route 29/47) ...

The Samuel House Plantation

The large brick residence built in 1857 by Samuel House (1798-1873) was a prominent landmark during military operations by Federal forces on the Atlanta front in July, 1864.

Cox’s division of Schofield's 23rd A.C. reached this vicinity July 18; Schofield, in ...

Battle of Nottoway

Lee's Retreat

This was the first in a series of raids from Petersburg led by Union Generals James Wilson and August Kautz. The purpose of the raid was to destroy portions of the South Side and Richmond & Danville Railroads and ...

Father Peter Whelan

Father Peter Whelan, an Irish-born Catholic priest from Savannah, arrived at Andersonville on June 16, 1864, to minister to the sick and dying. While other priests visited for brief periods, Whelan remained for nearly four months during the hottest season ...

Richardson's Battery

Battery D, 1st Missouri Light Artillery - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Richardson's Battery,

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

Army of the Tennessee

One section of this battery was engaged here from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ...