Sinking Of The USS Harvest Moon

[Front]

In early 1865 the USS Harvest Moon, a 193-foot, 5-gun side-wheel steamer, was the flagship of Adm. John A. Dahlgren of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, U.S. Navy. It arrived off Georgetown and anchored nearby on February 26th. Confederate ...

Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House

Longfellow National Historic Site

Built in 1759

Headquarters for George Washington

1775 – 1776

.

Home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Family & Descendants

1837 1950

Marker is on Brattle Street, on the right when traveling west.

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The Little Church of the West

Built 1942

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard South (Nevada Route 159) and West Russell Road.

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Bedford Minutemen

Line of March

April 19, 1775

Marker is on Lexington Road, on the right when traveling west.

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The 526th Armored Infantry Battalion

World War II

In honored memory of those soldiers of the battalion who trained here at Camp Bouse and gave their lives in combat to preserve the freedom of the United States and to set the Peoples of Europe free.

Headquarters Company

Donald ...

Bedford Minutemen

Line of March

April 19, 1775

Marker is on Lexington Road, on the right when traveling west.

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First Baptist Church

Congregation organized 1809. Original church, built 1811 on Sumter Street corner, was burned Feb. 17, 1865 by Union troops who mistook it for the present church, built 1859, where the Secession Convention had met Dec. 17, 1860. Because of ...

Seal of the City of Virginia Beach

The Cape Henry Lighthouse & Cross in the seal's center symbolize the beginning of Virginia Beach as well as the United States. The bright sky, sunshine, blue water & sandy beach indicate the importance of tourism & the pleasure of ...

Battle of Missionary Ridge

Without orders, the Federals charged up the mountain

On the morning of November 25, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Union army began its attack against Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederates who occupied this ridge and the slopes below. After unsuccessful attacks ...

The Cornerstone of Freedom

[ Top Plaque ]

This Cornerstone of Freedom

presented June, 17, 1948

at Bedford, Indiana, U. S. A.

The Stone City of the World

On this spot June 17, 1948 as a

part of the Indiana Limestone

Centennial Cornerstones of

Freedom were given to

representatives ...