Battle at Stones River

December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's ...

Shaker Gate Post

Period 1830

This is one of several stone gate posts which stood before the buildings of the Middle Family of Shakers near what is now Shaker Boulevard and Lee Road. The post was found under an old cherry tree at ...

State Fish Hatchery

Half a mile north. This fish cultural station was established in 1937 for hatching and rearing largemouth bass and other species of sunfish for the stocking of the public waters of Virginia.

Marker is at the intersection of The Trail (Virginia ...

Arrival of the Frigate Arbella

To commemorate

the arrival on June 12, 1630 of the

Frigate Arbella, bringing Governor Winthrop and

the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,

This tablet placed by the

Massachusetts

Daughters of the American Revolution

Marker is on Beacon Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Catfish Creek Baptist Church

This Baptist Church, constituted in 1802, has ordained eleven ministers, provided a missionary to Brazil, and has assisted in establishing a number of other churches. The present house of worship, dedicated in 1883 with portico added in 1970, is on ...

"Where the Waters Meet"

Called M'Dote or "the place where waters meet" by the Dakota, this area is central to many Dakota creation stories and is significant to Dakota people today. Just west of this site is Pilot Knob, which was used extensively for ...

Death of General Walker

July 22, 1864. Maj. Gen. W.H.T. Walker, commanding a div. of Hardee's A.C., (CS) while directing his troops toward the battlefield, reached a close proximity to this spot at noon where, pausing to reconnoiter the area, he was shot from ...

Fort Hill Plantation Office

John C. Calhoun's Plantation Office was his private sanctuary and housed both his study and library during his twenty-five year residency at Fort Hill. In this building Calhoun developed and set forth his most historically significant constitutional arguments and political ...

Mattapony Church

This is the ancient colonial Mattapony Church, used by the Baptists since 1824. Here are tombs of members of the family of Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Marker is on The Trail (Virginia Route 14) 0.1 miles north ...

The Church Of The Nativity, Episcopal

Side A

The Church of the Nativity congregation was organized December 17, 1842 - the name chosen because of the approaching Christmas season. The Convention of the Diocese of Alabama, Protestant Episcopal Church, approved the congregation on February 16, 1843. The ...