The Baylor Massacre

Here as they slept at dawn on Sept. 28, 1778 Col. Geo. Baylor and 116 Virginia Dragoons were attacked by the British under General "No Flint" Grey. Major Clough, Surgeon George Evans, with fifty other Colonial troopers were killed.

Marker is ...

Buchanan and The James River and Kanawha Canal

Celebrating more than two centuries of history

Buchanan, Virginia is the western terminus of the James River & Kanawha Canal. Considered one of Virginia’s most remarkable engineering feats ever attempted, the Canal’s beginnings stretch back to 1785, when George Washington ...

Convention Army The Barracks

In Jan. 1779, during the American Revolution, 4,000 British troops and German mercenaries (commonly known as “Hessians”) captured following the Battle of Saratoga in New York arrived here after marching from Massachusetts. It was called the Convention Army after the ...

The Grotto at St. Mary's Church

The Grotto at St. Mary's Church, inspired by Our Lady of Lourdes', was built in 1936 under the direction of Rev. Cyril Bayer, OSB and William Wallace Van Liew of Atchison, Kansas. The site of daily recitation of the Rosary ...

WWII: On the Home Front

During the war we all did our part to contribute. At first I worked at the shipyard as a welder. Then I served on board the Francis Retka, a Liberty ship we launched from the East Yard.

Frank Emery

Welder, 1941-1944, New ...

Pierce Brothers Valhalla Dignity Memorial

Vietnam Wall Experience

“Solders rest thy warfare O’er.

Dream of fighting fields no more

sleep the sleep that knows not breaking

morn of toil, nor night of waking.”

~Sir Walter Scott

Marker is on Victory Boulevard, on the right when ...

The Second Cemetery

The Second Cemetery

of the

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

Shearith Israel

In the City of New York

1805 – 1829

Marker is on West 11th Street.

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The Former Canadian Hospital

This building, now a residence, was Canadian's first hospital, opened on June 16, 1917. Funds for construction were obtained by public subscription. Dr. H. C. Caylor, first owner, sold to Dr. L. V. Dawson in 1920. From 1924 to 1949, ...

The Forsyth County Men

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice In The World War

1917-1918

In Grateful Remembrance of

The Forsyth County Men

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice

In The World War

Clinton A. Anderson

William M. Bazemore

Jim Bennett

Clyde Bolling

Frank J. Brewer

Isaac L. Brown

Sam Chambers

James R. Cook

Horace B. Connelly

James Cottingham

Herbert Crighton

Samuel Crews

Germie ...

The Chisholm Trail

1865 – 1893

Here passed the Old Cattle Trail, blazed by Jesse Chisholm, which finally stretched for eight hundred miles from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas over which cowboys from the pasture-lands of the great southwest drove their herds to ...