A Daring Plan

Outnumbered and with little hope of getting reinforcements, Lord Rawdon believed that it would be foolish to sit passively behind Camden’s fortifications. Instead, after an American deserter reported that Greene had no artillery, Rawdon chose to attack despite the Americans’ ...

Camp Alamance

At this site on 1 June 1861 soldiers of the 6th NC State Troops, commanded by Col. Charles Fisher president of the NC Railroad, drilled before departing for the war front. In July 1861, they became the first troops ever ...

Palo Verde Irrigation District Diversion Dam

1957 – 2007

Dedicated to the many pioneers that recognized the potential and value to our Valley of a gravity irrigation system, and the sacrifices made obtaining it.

In particular, to honor the following three persons, whose contributions uniquely contributed to the ...

Samuel Francis Du Pont

MDCCCIII - MDCCCLXV

Rear Admiral

United States Navy

Statue was erected

by the Congress

of the United States

in recognition of his

distinguished services

Originally placed in

Du Pont Circle

Washington D.C.

it was removed

to this site

A.D. MCMXX

Buliod-Perry House

c. 1750

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of

Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Touro Street and Touro Ct., on the right when traveling east on Touro Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Capt. Robert Kirkwood (1756-1791)

At the start of the American Revolution, Robert Kirkwood served as a lieutenant in Hazlet’s Delaware Regiment and in 1777 was promoted to captain and company commander in the 1st Delaware Continental Regiment. In the Battle of Camden (Aug. 16, ...

Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba

Hourglass-shaped pass through the hills were McDougal Creek joins San Saba River. For years a favored Indian campground, it entered written history, 1732, as site of Spanish-Apache battle.

Saw passage of adventurers, mustang hunters, Indian fighters, German settlers, gold-seekers.

Probably named by ...

Samuel de Champlain

1630 - 1930

In September, 1606, Samuel de Champlain landed at Rocky Neck in what is now Gloucester Harbor, to caulk his shallop, and made an accurate chart of the harbor which he called Le Beauport.

Marker is on Rocky Neck Avenue, ...

The Church of the Epiphany

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Carpets, cushions, and hymnbooks were packed away ... ambulances began to stop ... lastly come the surgeons....”

Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington.

Church spires dominated the skyline of the city of Washington at the time of the ...

William Bartram's Plantation

In 1766 on the banks of the St. Johns River at Little Florence Cove, William Bartram attempted to farm a 500-acre land grant. Bartram had spent much of the previous year exploring the new British Colony of East Florida with ...