Juan De Ornate Expedition -1598

Spanish interest in the territory known as New Mexico increased during the 1580s and 1590s. Although reports of mining and missionary possibilities were significant, King Phillip II of Spain was also concerned about new world explorations of rival England. As ...

Indian School at the College of William & Mary

Using funds from the estate of British scientist Robert Boyle, the College of William & Mary established a school to educate young Indian men in 1697, just four years after the college’s founding. To encourage enrollment, in 1711 Lt. Gov. ...

Donato (Dan) Persico, Chief T/M

Submarine Combat World War II

United States USS Squalus 192

Donato (Dan) Persico, Chief T/M

A Survivor of the Submarine U.S.S. Squalus, which sank on May 23, 1939 off the coast of Portsmouth, NH. A faulty main induction valve ...

Alabama Cattlemen’s Association

In This Building The

Alabama Cattlemen’s

Association

was organized on January 4, 1944

The Association has grown to be

the largest state Cattlemen’s

Association in the Nation.

Marker is at the intersection of West Washington Street and North Main Avenue, on the right when traveling east on ...

Blackwater Line - Joyner's Ford

Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing from 1862 to the end of the Civil War. On 12 Dec. 1862, Capt. J. H. Sikes and soldiers of Company D, 7th Confederate Cavalry, were captured during a dismounted skirmish with elements ...

Civil War Torpedo Boatmen Memorial

In Memory of

The Supreme Devotion of Those Heroic Men

Of the Confederate Army and Navy

First in Marine Warfare

To Employ Torpedo Board

1863 - 1865

Moved by

The Lofty Faith That With Them Died

Crew After Crew

Volunteered

For Enterprises of Extremest Peril

In the Defenses of Charleston Harbor

—————

Of ...

Blackwater Line - Blackwater Bridge

During the Civil War, Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing as a part of the Blackwater defensive line. On 14 Nov. 1862, Col. Charles C. Dodge, 1st Battalion New York Mounted Rifles, led his troops in a skirmish against ...

The Cattle (Beefsteak) Raid

One mile southwest, on September 16, 1864, General Wade Hampton's Confederate Cavalry herded about 2500 head of captured cattle across the Nottoway River, while two miles northwest, at Belsches' Mill, Federal troops sent to recapture the cattle were intercepted and ...

Lamar Electric Membership Corporation

Dedicated August 11, 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rededicated to service 1988

E.J. Martin, Jr., President

W.H. Averett, Jr., V. President

J.H. Gunnels, Secretary

H.B. Cromer, Treasurer

J.H. Barnes, Jr. J.C. Caldwell

F.C. Chapman W.C. Elliott

B.A. Garner, Jr. S.R. Pippin

Harvey J. Kennedy, Jr., Attorney

Thomas M. Weldon, ...

Battery I First U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery I First U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. George A. Woodruff Commanding

Lieut. Tully McCrea Commanding

July 2 & 3 Arrived and took position in Ziegler's Grove on the left of Evergreen Cemetery. Actively ...